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| A collection of people who happen to be in the same place at the same time but have little else in common |
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| An organizational model characterized by the hierarchy of authority, a clear division of labour, explicit rules and procedures, and impersonality in personnel matters |
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| A psychological construct that discribes those workers who are more concerned with following correct procedures than they are getting the job done |
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| A number of people who may never have met one another but share similar characteristic |
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| The process maintaining or changing behaviour to comply with the norms established by a society, subculture, or other group |
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| A highly structured group formed for the purpose of completing certain taks or achieving specific goals |
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| A process that occurs when the rules become an end in themsleves rather than a means to an end, and organization survival becomes more important than achievement of goals |
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| The process by which members of a cohesive group arrive at a decision that many individual members privately belief is unwise |
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| The aspects of participants' day-to-day activities that ignore, bypass, or do not correspond with the official rules and procedures of the bureaucracy |
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| A group which a peron belongs and with which the person feels a sense of identity |
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| A web of social relationships that links one person with other people, and through them, additional people |
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| Buisnesses join for specific projects that become the focus of the network |
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| A group to which a person does not belong and toward which the person may feel a sense of competitiveness or hostality |
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| A group that strongly influences a person's behaviour and social attitudes, whether that person is an actual member |
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