Corporate culture

If a traditional business starts allowing employees to wear less formal clothes on one day in the week, for example, every Friday, this could be described as a change in what?

• Company culture

• Organisational culture

• Corporate culture

• All of these

Which of the following could be seen as the starting point for creating a strong organisational culture?

• Increasing the wages of the employees.

• Allocating more funds for promotion.

• Drafting/amending a mission statement

• Creating a website for the company.

Which specific kind of growth is most likely to lead to a cultural clash within an organisation?

• Organic growth

• A joint venture

• A franchise 

• A merger

Which of these could best describe an effort to minimise the effect of a cultural clash arising from a recent takeover?

• An informal party thrown by the management

• Extra dividends declared

• Lengthy communication with the employees about the possible effects

• Change of leadership

A single dominant decision-making senior manager or group is which organisational culture

• Power

• Person

• Role

• Task

Corporater and team work are emphasised in which type of organisation culture?

• Task

• Role

• Person

• Power

Having a clearly defined job title and job specification applies to a firm with

• Role culture

• Task culture

• Power culture

• Person culture

Firm's low on the power distance dimension of culture are likely to have

• Democratic decision-making process

• Decentralised decision-making process

• Bureaucratic decision-making process

• Centralised decision-making process

Economic performance and long-term success of firms is clearly linked to organisational culture

• True

• False

A firm's organisational structure and its corporate culture are not related according to Handy

• True

• False