Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. Integration is the tendency of the parts of an organization to draw together to achieve a common purpose. 
2. The four stages of organization life cycle include birth, growth, stability, and maturity. 
3. In general, organizations become more bureaucratic over their lifetimes. 
4. The first stage of in an organization's life cycle is known as the creation stage.

Answer 1

1. TRUE
Integration is the tendency of the parts of an organization to draw together to achieve a common purpose.
2. FALSE
The four-stage organizational life cycle has a natural sequence of stages: birth, youth, midlife, and maturity.
3. TRUE
In general, as an organization moves through the life-cycle stages, it becomes not only larger but also more mechanistic, specialized, decentralized, and bureaucratic.
4. FALSE
The birth stage is the nonbureaucratic stage, the stage in which the organization is created.