Exam 3: The Environment and Corporate Culture

Kyla works as an engineer at TechSystems, Inc. She regularly has to work more than 50 hours per week to meet her deadlines. Management at TechSystems runs monthly performance reports, and those employees who do not meet their deadlines and goals are terminated. Management pays little attention to cultural values. Based on this information, which organizational outcome does TechSystems belong in?

Organizations that pay little attention to either cultural values or business results:

The level of corporate culture that cannot be seen but can be discerned from how people explain and justify what they do is:

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

Which of the following would be considered a part of the task environment of Ford Motor Company?

Nikki Williams Nikki Williams was working as the sales manager for Industrial Instruments. Some of the sales executives were showing signs of burnout. They were losing interest in their jobs and were no longer motivated to gain new accounts. The reward system focused on old reliable accounts, but Nikki was now under pressure to expand the customer base. Nikki had recently been to a seminar on corporate value systems. She recognized that the company's CEO wanted to change the way employees thought about the firm and the way they related to one another. She further recognized that a lasting solution to her problem required a fundamental shift in perception. -Industrial Instruments operates in an environment that requires fast response and high-risk decision making. Which type of culture may be appropriate here?

All of the following are part of an organization's general environment except:

The internal environment within which managers work includes all of the following except:

SweetTooth Candies is a U.S.-based company that manufactures and distributes candy bars and snack foods globally. The company sources most of its cocoa and sugar from South American companies. This business relationship highlights which dimension of the task environment?

Organizations must manage environmental uncertainty to be effective.

An organizational environment is influenced by both external and internal factors. Write a short essay summarizing the concept of the organizational ecosystem. Include an example (real or fictional) of how changes in the general environment and the task environment may affect a business.

Which dimension of the general environment represents the demographic characteristics, norms, customs, and values of the population within which the organization operates?

Uncertainty in a business environment refers to lacking sufficient information necessary to understand and predict environmental needs and changes. Turbulence in a business environment refers to the amount of change and complexity that exists in that organizational environment. Choose one of the strategies that managers use to adapt to environmental changes, and write a short paragraph that gives your assessment of the ethical issues that might arise from its use.

Describe what strategic issues are, and list three strategies that managers use to adapt to strategic issues.

The general economic health of the country or region in which the organization operates is represented by the __________.

An ecosystem includes organizations in all the sectors of the task and general environments that provide the resource and information transactions, flows, and linkages necessary for an organization to thrive.

Melissa Hill Melissa Hill, sales manager for One-Hit-Wonder Record Company, was trying to create a new strategy to turn around the declining record sales the company was facing. Melissa needed to find a way to find out what the customers really wanted, since One-Hit-Wonder didn't have accurate information like the competitors did. It was imperative that she find the correct strategy and information because the company was in financial trouble. The company's president wanted all employees to help find information and work as a team to develop better relationships that might help the company. He also stated that he wanted the company to remain an independent company. Melissa realized that through hard work and team efforts, the company could get back on its feet as soon as they got reliable information. -Melissa will be working primarily with the:

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

A joint venture involves a strategic alliance or program by two or more organizations.

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?