Exam 14: Organizational Culture, Creativity, and Innovation

The best way to create an innovative climate is to specifically link organizational goals to innovations and to connect each innovation to some type of monetary reward.

The process of organizational innovation begins with setting the stage and then producing the ideas.

The use of special language represents which of the following tools for transmitting culture?

Companies making ________ explore new technology and operate under highly uncertain conditions.

Like human personalities, organizational cultures do not change, just the mechanical behavior of people changes, but not their values, beliefs, attitudes, or norms.

According to the competing values framework, the cultures of organizations differ with respect to the values of ________.

In the discussion of individual creativity, any concern that the individual has the physical skills necessary to create or innovate is a discussion of:

Forest Mars, the founder of the candy company M&M Mars, published the "Five Principles of Mars," which still guide the company today. This publication exemplifies which of the following tools for transmitting culture?

The top 50 most innovative companies enjoyed annual profit margin growths that were ________ as compared to the average Standard & Poor's Global 1200 companies.

What are the components of individual and team creativity.

Table 14.2 As an innovation consultant, you work with a number of firms. Better Mousetraps builds inexpensive but sophisticated mousetraps. They have very capable designers and engineers who are highly motivated by a personal desire to rid the world of mice, yet innovation is low. The CEO asks you to conduct some creativity training. You lead the key designers through a process for coming up with new ideas by reframing common problems in unique ways to come up with multiple or alternative solutions. Along with the training, you interview the designers and engineers and discover that they are not clear on what the CEO wants. You also find they perceive a corporate bias towards the status quo, not an encouragement to innovate. -Refer to Table 14.2. What creativity component seems to be weak at Better Mousetraps?

Identify the major forms of innovation and associate them with the following key factors: impact on existing business, degree of uncertainty, and source.

________ is the process of reframing familiar problems in unique ways.

Companies engaging in ________ bring about change in the market.

Organizations that emphasize flexibility while also paying a great deal of attention to the external environment are said to have a(n):

Intrinsic task motivation focuses on what people are capable of doing.

The external environment of a company has little effect on its internal culture.

Improvements in production or delivery methods are considered what target of innovation?

Table 14.2 As an innovation consultant, you work with a number of firms. Better Mousetraps builds inexpensive but sophisticated mousetraps. They have very capable designers and engineers who are highly motivated by a personal desire to rid the world of mice, yet innovation is low. The CEO asks you to conduct some creativity training. You lead the key designers through a process for coming up with new ideas by reframing common problems in unique ways to come up with multiple or alternative solutions. Along with the training, you interview the designers and engineers and discover that they are not clear on what the CEO wants. You also find they perceive a corporate bias towards the status quo, not an encouragement to innovate. -Refer to Table 14.2. Your creativity training is an example of:

The stage of the creative process that involves gathering the appropriate information and concentrating on the problem is: