Managing and organizations - CULTURE

Which of the following is part of the definition of culture?

• The framing of how organizational members think, perceive and feel

• A pattern of learned and shared assumptions

• How things are done or are expected to be done, in a particular organizations

• All of the above

Why is culture important?

• It allows organizational members to understand what is acceptable behaviour within the organization

• It aligns members behaviour to the objective of the organization

• It establishes a set of norms that can be transferred to new organizational members

• All of the above

If all members of an organization understand, share and are committed to the organization’s systems of beliefs and values, that organization is said to have what?

• Sub-cultures

• A total Institution

• A strong culture

• A weak culture

Edgar Schein conceptualized culture as existing at three levels. Which one of the following is NOT one of those levels?

• Climate

• Values

• Artifacts

• Basic assumptions

Which of the following is an incorrect assumption about ‘strong’ organizational culture?

• • A strong culture can lead to organizational problems like groupthink .

• Strong culture means everyone in the organization shares and is committed to the organization’s norms

• Organizations with strong cultures will always outperform other organizations

• Both a and b

The argument that a strong organizational culture leads to superior organizational performance was originally articulated by ______.

• Peters and Waterman  

• Kono and Clegg

• Terence and Patrick

• Karl Marx  

If a sub-culture reflects a cohesive group and is a defender of plausible ideas it may become ______.

• An illegitimate sub-culture

• A danger to organizational culture

• None of the above

• A legitimate subculture

If sub-culture challenges legitimate values it becomes ______.

• A deadly subculture

• A counterculture

• A dominant culture

• A legitimate subculture

Which one of the following would NOT be typical of the fragmentation perspective of organizational culture?

• All of the above

• Culture is never consistent nor clearly contested, it forms around certain emergent issues and then dissolves as people regulate their position within cultural spaces created for and around them

• Culture promotes ambiguity which provides a protective shroud from the meaninglessness of everyday organizational life

• Culture defragments people into a unified, strong culture

Which of the following statements are characteristics of ‘postmodernist’ conceptions of organizational culture as text?

• Organization culture is complex and can be read in fragments

• All texts suppress, silence and marginalize some elements of discursive reality

• Culture can be viewed more as a ‘text’

• All of the above