Exam 10: Leadership of Ethics, Diversity, and Culture

The ultimate objective of diversity training and education is:

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.

Diversity training can include which of the following?

A manager at Toyota describes his company as focused on teamwork with much input from employees into decision making to satisfy customers. Toyota's organizational culture is best described by which of the following?

People in ____ have a short-term orientation.

High-performance cultures are results-oriented and avoid risks.

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?

Promotions based on personal considerations rather than professional considerations are a characteristic of low-performance cultures.

Foreign-born managers who lead U.S. companies:

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

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

Diversity leadership focuses on simply managing the numbers or compliance, while diversity management (institutionalized) focuses on results.

Distinguish between symbolic and substantive leadership actions for shaping organizational culture.

A single person entrusted with the responsibility of acting as the organization's conscience is called a(n) ____.

Identify and briefly describe the obstacles that make it hard to achieve diversity objectives.

Written values statements have the advantage of explicitly stating the company's position on ethical and moral issues, and they serve as benchmarks for judging both company policies and actions and individual conduct.

____ leadership actions are explicit and highly visible and are indicative of management's commitment to new strategic initiatives and the associated cultural changes.

What are the similarities and differences between the cooperative culture and the adaptive culture?

____ culture represents a leadership belief in strong, mutually reinforcing exchanges and linkages between employees and departments.

A strong culture by itself is generally a guarantee of success.