05-Groups+and+Organizations

Dyad: a social group with two members Ex.: J.D. and Turk are best friends and will do many of their activities together. Some of which includes using the interns to play Space Invaders.

Primary group: a small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships. Ex.: The main group of Carla, Turk, J.D., Elliot are the main group that have been friends ever since the beginning of the series.

Group think: the tendency of group memebers to, resulting in a narrow view of some issue Ex.: In one episode the entire hospital was separated into two groups of political issues. The main men (Turk, J.D., Cox) were very liberal. The main women (Elliot and Carla) would be very conservative.

Bureaucracy: an organizational model rationally designed to perform tasks efficiently. Ex.: Sacred Heart is organized as a bureaucracy--Dr. Cox, the most senior member, will order around J.D. and the other doctors, while they will pass those orders down to the interns.

Rationality: a way of thinking that emphasizes deliberate, matter-of-fact calculations of the most efficient way to accomplish a particular task. Ex.: Dr. Cox stresses rational thoughts when dealing with patients in order to prevent emotions from affecting the judgment of the other doctors.

Bureaucratic Ritualism: focus on rules and regulations to the point of in determining an organization's goal. Ex.: Dr. Kelso was a ‘by-the-book’ doctor. Always thinking of how things would financially, as well as publicly, benefit the hospital. Sometimes this resulted in ignoring the hospital’s very own patients in the process. 