Exam 14: Organizational Culture

Which strategy for merging two distinct cultures is recommended when the two companies have relatively weak cultures with overlapping values?

Which of the following is a spawning ground for emerging corporate culture values?

Organizational culture is not represented by espoused values.

Researchers have found that an organization's culture may be identified very easily and quickly by looking at one or two observable artifacts.

The assimilation strategy of merging corporate cultures should be applied when the acquired firm has a weak culture and is willing to embrace the acquiring company's culture.

Employees are more likely to quit if values incongruence is sufficiently low.

Which of these statements about psychological contracts is FALSE?

Artifacts refer mainly to the paintings and other tangible objects that appear throughout the organization.

In a merger,the process of diagnosing cultural relations between the companies and determining the extent to which cultural clashes will likely occur is called:

What is the significance of artifacts in organizational culture?

Reality shock among new employees typically occurs when:

Shared assumptions are easily uncovered by surveying employees.

Organizational culture models and surveys present a distorted view of organizational culture.

Compared to other strategies for merging two organizations,assimilation is most likely to result in a culture clash.

The observable symbols and signs of an organization's culture:

The transactional type of psychological contract is primarily a short-term economic exchange.

An organization's culture is deemed to be strong if:

Organizational culture is a deeply embedded form of social control that influences the thoughts and actions of organizational members.

Organizational stories are most effective at communicating corporate culture when they describe real people and seem to represent true past events.

The main purpose of realistic job previews is to: