Exam 10: Leadership of Ethics, Diversity, and Culture

All of the following are factors related to diversity success EXCEPT:

Culture has two important functions in that it creates external unity and helps the organization adapt to the internal environment.

In an adaptive culture, management thinking is based on the belief that organizational success is influenced more by events outside the organization than by internal factors.

In a high power-distance culture:

Diversity training is most likely to be successful when it is:

In a(n) ____ culture, management thinking is based on the belief that organizational success is influenced more by events outside the organization than by internal factors.

Differentiate between the four cultural value types.

The glass cliff:

Describe Hofstede's value dimensions of national culture.

What is the difference between diversity management and diversity leadership?

An organization with an external strategic focus and a high degree of environmental turbulence calls for a(n) ____ culture.

An organization's culture is considered weak when it conducts its business according to clear and explicit set of principles and values.

In high-performance cultures, emphasis is placed on individual goal setting, and in low-performance cultures, emphasis is place on linkages between reward systems and performance.

What potential problems could develop in a case where a leader is from a high-power-distance culture but his followers are from a low-power-distance culture?

Describe some of the practices, policies, and norms that you would expect to find in an organization that prides itself on building a culture of respect and trust.

All of the following are substantive leadership actions for shaping culture EXCEPT:

Demographic diversity is the inclusion of all groups at all levels in an organization.

The strength of any culture depends on the degree to which a set of norms and values are widely shared and strongly held throughout the organization.

Because industrialized countries share similar national values, it would be appropriate for the United States to use the same rewards systems for companies in Canada and Mexico.

The United States has a culture where the majority of the population tolerate risk and are relatively comfortable with uncertainty and unpredictability. Which of Hofstede's dimensions of national culture does this describe?