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HANDOUT and MULTIPLE CHOICE
HANDOUT and MULTIPLE CHOICE
U2.1&2.2 Social Systems Model and Key Elements of a School as a Social System
Learning Outcome:
a. Define Social System
b. Discuss Social System Model and basic assumption
c. Identify key elements of school as social system
Social System
a. Structure
Formal organizations such as schools have structures composed of bureaucratic
expectations and roles, hierarchy of offices and positions, rules and regulations,
and specializations.
Bureaucratic expectations and roles are the official blue print for action, it
defines organizational roles.
Roles are combined into position and offices.
Rules and regulations are provided to guide decision making and enhance
organizational rationality
Labor is divided as individuals specialize in task
b. Individual
A key unit in any social system regardless of position, people bring with them
individual's needs, beliefs, and a cognitive understanding of the job.
Cognition is the individual's use of mental representations to understand the job
in terms of perception, knowledge, and expected behavior.
c. Culture
Organizations develop their own distinctive cultures.
Culture provides members with a commitment to belief and values beyond
themselves; individuals belong to a group that is larger than them.
d. Politics
Politics is the way of how some individuals use their influence for their interests
Inevitable part of organizational life
Although politics is informal, divisive, and typically illegitimate, there is little doubt
that it is an important force influencing organizational behavior
f. Environment
Everything outside the organization
It is the system's source of energy. It provides resources, values, technology,
demands, and history.
g. Outcomes
The products of the organizations that is educated students.
Performance outcomes are indicators of goal accomplishment.
h. Feedback Loops: Internal and External
Informs individuals how bureaucratic structure and the informal organization view
their behavior.
Exercise.
Choose the letter of the correct answer.
5. It informs individuals how bureaucratic structure and the informal organization view their
behavior.
a. Outcome
b. Politics
c. Environment
d. Feedback Loops: Internal and External
9. What is the key unit in any social system regardless of position, people bring with them
individual's needs, beliefs, and a cognitive understanding of the job?
a. Individual
b. Environment
c. Politics
d. Technical Core: Teaching and Learning
11. What occurs when there is stable change in an individual's knowledge or behavior?
a. Learning
b. Teaching
c. Transformation
d. Outcome
13. It is the way of how some individuals use their influence for their interests
a. Environment
b. Structure
c. Politics
d. Feedback
Answer Key
1. b.
2. c
3. a
4. a
5. d
6. c
7. d
8. b
9. a
10. d
11. a
12. c
13. c
14. a
15. c