Exam 3: The Environment and Corporate Culture

_____ means that managers do not have sufficient information about environmental factors to understand and predict environmental needs and changes.

Scientific and technological advancements in a specific industry as well as in society at large are included in which general environment dimension?

A(n) _____ defines and uses signals and symbols to influence corporate culture.

Kristen's Jewelry Shop has just hired a comparative shopper to visit other local jewelry stores to gain product pricing information. What strategy is this describing?

Briefly discuss the two key areas that cultural leaders influence culture.

A government inspection has required your company to upgrade the safety equipment in the manufacturing process of ice creamery. What dimension of the external environment has influenced these upgrades?

In today's business environment, most companies operate in a stable and rigid environment.

McDonalds, Burger King, and Checkers are competitors since all three sell fast food to individuals.

Which of the following roles are assumed by people and/or departments that link and coordinate the organization with key elements in the external environment?

Culture can be defined as:

Which of the following dimensions of the general environment includes all elements that occur naturally on earth?

Integrated Computers, Inc. wants to compile a profile of the customer it will target in its next promotional mailing. What environment would this be found in?

The consistency culture has a(n) _____ focus and an orientation for a _____ environment.

When Miami Herald launches a Spanish-language newspaper, El Nuevo Herald, with articles emphasizing Hispanic, Cuban, and Latin American news and sports, it is responding to changes in _____ environment.

_____ plays a key role in creating an organizational climate that enables learning and innovative responses to threats from the external environment, challenging new opportunities, or organizational crises.

Organizations with internal focuses and consistency orientations for a stable environment should create a(n) _____ culture.

Which of the following is NOT a part of adapting the organization to changes in the environment for coping with high environmental uncertainty?

Culture can be defined as the ability to speak different languages.

The involvement culture has a(n) _____ focus on the involvement and participation of employees to rapidly meet changing needs from the environment.

More organizations are requiring all employees to perform boundary-spanning because environmental shifts can happen quickly.