Exam 14: Organizational Culture, Creativity, and Innovation

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a healthy organizational culture?

"Just like a good neighbor, State Farm is there" represents which of the following tools for transmitting culture?

Jargon is actually beneficial in maintaining an organization's culture.

Organizational culture plays several important roles, such as:

If a company shapes its culture around a strategy like price leadership or high quality products, its culture is growing out of the factor of:

A key factor contributing to the emergence of culture in a company is ________.

A number of great innovations were initially rejected or turned down, including:

The final stage of the creativity process is:

In the transmission of organizational culture, material objects that connote meanings that extend beyond their intrinsic content are called:

Intrinsic task motivation is high when the individual has a strong personal interest or has other internal reasons to perform.

Explicit statements about the company's moral and ethical values are called:

A key organizational component necessary to foster innovation is ________.

Betsy is creating a mission statement and focusing on motivation. She is ________ for innovation.

The component of creativity that focuses on what people are willing to do is:

Table 14.1 Graduate students are studying their university's organizational culture. Tanya is examining the extent to which the university makes it easy for students to register for classes and for professors to get clerical support for their classes. Tia has focused on the university's concern about liability and how much it allows professors to experiment with new teaching methods, conduct experiments in classes, etc. Bill has found that there is little expectation that faculty will make independent decisions. Almost everything has to pass through a committee. Students feel like mushrooms; they are kept in the dark and dumped on. As a consequence, faculty members do their own thing and go home. Alumni giving is minimal since most graduates are happy to escape. There is little social consciousness on campus. -Refer to Table 14.1. Bill's research in on the organizational cultural element of:

If any one of the three components of creativity is missing, people will not be creative at all.

Identify the tools for transmitting organizational culture.

Innovation is the successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.

When interpreting an organization's culture, it is important to remember that:

The final stage of organizational innovation is assessing the outcome.