Explain How the Different Types of Organizational Structures in Burns

question 18

Essay

Explain how the different types of organizational structures in Burns and Stalker's contingency theory rest on Theory X or Theory Y assumptions.

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Concrete Class

A class in object-oriented programming that can be instantiated, as opposed to an abstract class, and provides implementations for all its methods.

Abstract Methods

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Downcasting

The process of converting a reference of a parent class to a reference of a child class in the object hierarchy.

Ancestor Class

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