Exam 16: Managing Organization Culture

How are organization cultures classified? What are the different types of organization culture that exist?

Which of the following is a popular belief or story that becomes associated with a person or institution and is considered to illustrate an organization culture ideal?

Organizational commitment can be equated to the ________ that influences employees to act in ways that are consistent with the organization's interests.

Which of the following is the final step in an organizational socialization process?

Which of the following is a characteristic specific to an organization with a market structure?

A(n) ________ is a document that reflects the core values of an organization and suggests how organization members should act in relation to them.

Which of the following statements is true of the steps managers undertake to build a high-performance organization culture?

The shared values about organizational functioning held by the majority of organization members is known as the ________.

Organization culture is established by a manager or the founder of the organization at the time of its creation.

The ________ dimension of organization culture is the element which focuses on making sure that a product, in the opinion of the customer, does what it is supposed to do.

Subcultures can affect management efforts both positively and negatively.

Farooq works for an organization whose culture could be described as entrepreneurial and simple. Farooq works for a firm with a/an ________ culture.

The act of passing organizational myths and sagas to other organization members is known as organizational ________.

What are the functions of organization culture?

When Joe tells his new employees stories about the company's beginnings, he is illustrating the firm's culture through the sharing of ________.

An organization with a highly competitive "results or else" mentality can be said to follow a(n) ________.

Leaders in organizations with clan cultures are likely to be ________.

During an interview, Roy asks his interviewer about the type of culture of the organization. The interviewer informs Roy that the organization has a very simple structure and interactions between employees are extremely informal in nature. Also, there are few rules and procedures that employees are expected to follow. Employees are encouraged to take risks and be creative in the workplace. The organization has a(n) ________.

Which of the following is an advantage to organizations that emphasize the diversity dimension of their culture?

________ is an organization culture that reflects values that emphasize stability and control along with an external focus.