Exam 10: Leadership of Ethics, Diversity, and Culture

Traditionalists are those in the workforce who are identified as being born before ____.

The glass cliff:

Why has the "melting pot" mentality of multiculturalism been replaced with the "salad bowl" mentality?

The United States and Japan are said to have individualistic cultures.

Top management of Mallon Corporation wants to communicate that it is committed to creating a new culture. The strongest means of doing this is to replace old-culture members who are unwilling to change with a "new breed" of employees.

An organization's culture determines the way that it responds to problems of survival in its external and internal environment.

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

____ is the tendency to form an adverse opinion without just cause about people who are different from the mainstream in terms of their gender, race, ethnicity, or any other definable characteristic.

____ people are comfortable with and accepting of the unknown, and tolerate risk and unpredictability.

An employee's disclosure of illegal or unethical practices on the part of the organization is called:

Culture is the aggregate of beliefs, norms, attitudes, values, assumptions, and ways of doing things that is shared by members of an organization and taught to new members.

A national culture that values personal relationships and a high quality of life is described by Hofstede as:

In a high power-distance culture:

Creative solutions to problems are more likely to be reached in diverse work groups than homogeneous groups.

An ethics ombudsperson is a single person entrusted with the responsibility of disclosing illegal or unethical practices on the part of the organization.

Which of the following is considered to be an obstacle to diversity?

Which of the following statements regarding culture is true?

Identify and briefly explain which of the five factors related to diversity success exist or do not exist where you work or have worked.

Describing his company's pricing strategy, an airline executive is quoted as saying, "In the airline industry, we keep a close eye on ticket prices to make sure we are not underpriced." It is evident that this company has which of the following types of organizational culture?

For diversity to succeed, there has to be an explicit corporate philosophy that unambiguously supports it.