ASWB Masters (MSW) Practice Exam 2025 – Your Comprehensive All-in-One Guide for Exam Success!

The contingency or situational approach recognizes that different environments require different organizational systems, as opposed to the other options which suggest a more rigid or irrelevant approach to organizational systems. Option A suggests that there is only one correct way to organize regardless of the environment, while option B implies a strict adherence to hierarchy even if it is not suitable for a particular environment. Option D, on the other hand, suggests that the environment has no impact on the organization's systems, which goes against the contingency approach's belief that organizations need to adapt to their surroundings to be successful.