What to do when you see advantages in another culture type than the one you are using for your organisation?

• Immediately invest in difficult and expensive culture change programs

• Copy the other company's culture and apply in your organisation

• Make sure that the behaviors your organizational culture stimulates fit the competitive strategy that you're pursuing

• Change strategy, then change culture

Your workforce is diverse in terms of their needs for benefits. Jim is married with two children and his wife is at home full time. Janet is single and supports her widowed mother. Bob is married and his wife has a high-paying job. You decide that you want to devise a benefits program that is tailored to their individual needs. You should expect that a flexible benefits program will be all of the following EXCEPT

• less expensive

• consistent with expectancy theory

• more responsive to individual needs

• motivational

When was the balanced scorecard developed?

• early 1990s

• early 1980s

• early 1970s

• early 1960s

In a balance scorecard, what is the factor that actually drive current and future results?

• lag indicators

• lead indicators

• left indicators

• late indicators

Who developed the balanced scorecard in the early 1990s?

• Kaplan and Norton

• Maslow

• Myer Bridge

• Jaco Lok

Which of the following explains for the dimension of alienation of Karl Marx "workers couldn't feel that they are producing something that connected them in any positive way with others"?

• They could feel no pride in knowing that their products they made would be valid and useful for» other people

• They could feel a strong connection among the other workers in the factory

• They could see how their products would make the users happy and bring convenience in their lives

• All are correct

Gene is regarded by his peers as an extremely creative designer of watercraft. He attributes much of his success to his family: he was raised by a traditional boat builder and from a very early age was surrounded by boats and the people who made them. To what element of the three-component model of creativity does Gene attribute his success?

• intuitiveness

• insight

• intrinsic task motivation

• None is correct

Among different types of value, which one is explicitly advocated by leaders?

• Espoused values

• Liberal values

• Military values

• Monetary values

Which of the following personal traits could be NOT suitable for an expatriate in an overseas assignment?

• being nonjudgmental

• having a learning orientation

• thinking flexible

• being conservative

What is NOT true about organisational culture?

• It could be summarized as the way people do things in an organization

• it includes the values, norms. beliefs. and behaviors that people take for granted

• People who live and breathe a particular organizational culture can easfly identify it

• Culture can be very difficult to identify