Exam 14: Shaping Culture and Values

A cultural leader defines and uses signals and symbols to influence corporate culture.

In an adaptive organizational culture, managers tend to behave somewhat insularly, politically, and bureaucratically.

Cooperation, consideration, fairness are values associated with the:

____________________ is a relationship between leaders and followers that is based on shared, strongly internalized values that are advocated and acted upon by the leaders.

Values and practices such as integrity, humility, respect, and personal reflection are considered:

Describe the competing values approach?

Although current laws often reflect minimum ethical standards:

The clan culture is characterized by a clear vision of the organization's goals and leaders' focus on the achievement of people.

For organizations to be ethical, leaders need to be openly and strongly committed to ethical conduct.

Describe values-based leadership.

____________________ is a culture characterized by values that support the organization's ability to interpret and translate signals from the environment into new behavior responses.

__________ is the code of principles and values that governs the behavior of a person or group with respect to what is right or wrong.

The difference between actual and desired values and behaviors is called a:

Companies with strong, healthy cultures:

Eaton Corporation's philosophical statement called, "Excellence Through People" is an example of a symbol.

Describe the three levels of corporate culture.

The visible level of corporate culture can be best described as:

Ethical standards are not part of the formal policies of many organizations.

In an adaptive organizational culture, leaders do all EXCEPT:

Why is spiritual leadership important today?