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WorksheetsManagement Organization Chap 5
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 19mins
Organizational culture is best defined as:
The company's financial policies
A collection of shared values and norms within an organization
The formal organizational structure
The product branding strategy
Which of the following usually has the main influence on an organization's culture?
Government regulations
The founder
The customers
Competitors
The founder's assumptions about ______ form the foundation of organizational culture.
Success
Profit margin
Technology
Competitor behavior
Organizational culture enables an organization to:
Avoid employee appraisals
Adapt to environmental changes
Ignore stakeholder interests
Operate without leadership
Organizational culture can either ______ or hinder strategic actions.
Facilitate
Copy
Ignore
Block only
Which of these is NOT listed as an element of organizational culture?
Values
Symbols
Technology patents
Heroes
Which of the following is part of the functions of organizational culture?
Cooperation and decision-making
Product pricing
Tax reporting
Outsourcing
Transactional leadership motivates followers by:
Inspiring involvement in a mission
Exchanging rewards for performance
Avoiding risk
Ignoring performance
Transformational leadership motivates by:
Inspiring involvement in a mission
Giving strict orders
Exchanging money for work
Avoiding change
Charismatic leaders influence others through:
Personal qualities and charm
Bureaucratic processes
Rigid rules
Avoiding interaction
Adaptive cultures are characterized by:
Encouraging innovation and initiative
Avoiding any risk
Ignoring customer needs
Focusing on bureaucracy
Inert cultures are characterized by:
Rewarding initiative
Conservatism and discouraging initiative
Encouraging change
Customer focus
Which is a visible behavior in adaptive cultures?
Managers behave bureaucratically
Managers take calculated risks
Avoiding strategy change
Ignoring customer needs
In unadaptive cultures, managers typically:
Initiate change when needed
Behave politically and bureaucratically
Value innovation
Take risks for legitimate interests
Geert Hofstede's model includes which dimension describing acceptance of unequal power distribution?
Uncertainty avoidance
Masculinity
Power distance
Individualism
Which Hofstede dimension refers to the tendency to look after oneself and immediate family?
Masculinity
Power distance
Individualism
Uncertainty avoidance
Which dimension refers to feeling threatened by ambiguous situations?
Power distance
Masculinity
Uncertainty avoidance
Individualism
In Hofstede's model, masculinity focuses on values like:
Cooperation and equality
Success, money, and material things
Avoiding competition
Team harmony only
Which is an expressed value in adaptive cultures?
Valuing people and useful change
Valuing only immediate work group
Avoiding risks
Ignoring customers
Managers in unadaptive cultures value:
Customers and employees
Themselves and their immediate work group
Innovation
Useful change
Which element of organizational culture represents moral principles and beliefs?
Heroes
Values
Symbols
Stories
Symbols in organizational culture refer to:
Graphic or physical representations of culture
Leadership style
Decision-making processes
Reward systems
Rituals and ceremonies in culture are intended to:
Celebrate and reinforce cultural values
Replace decision-making
Determine hierarchy
Train new hires only
Stories in organizational culture:
Are fictional only
Communicate core values and norms
Replace performance reviews
Determine pay
Cooperation as a function of culture helps:
Internal conflict
Achieve shared goals
Avoid communication
Reduce morale
Decision-making as a function of culture ensures:
Slow processes
Collective and culturally aligned choices
Solely top-down decisions
No changes
Control in organizational culture involves:
Regulating behavior according to norms
Punishing all mistakes
Avoiding feedback
Encouraging chaos
Commitment in organizational culture reflects:
Employee loyalty and dedication
Avoiding responsibility
Short-term focus
High turnover
Which leadership style works within the existing culture?
Transformational
Transactional
Charismatic
Adaptive
Which leadership style changes the culture?
Transactional
Transformational
Bureaucratic
Passive
Adaptive cultures reward:
Innovation from all levels
Conservatism
Avoidance
Inaction
Inert cultures discourage:
Risk-reduction
Middle and lower-level initiative
Bureaucracy
Stability
Managers must sustain culture by:
Rewarding and promoting those who maintain it
Avoiding communication
Changing leaders often
Reducing rewards
Building a culture of high performance involves:
Symbolic and substantive actions
Avoiding ethical behaviour
Ignoring strategy
Limiting responsiveness
Enforcing ethical behaviour is part of:
Building a strategy supportive of culture
Power distance
Masculinity
Rituals
Maintaining internal responsiveness means:
Adapting quickly to internal and external changes
Avoiding any change
Focusing only on profits
Ignoring employees
Dealing with organizational politics is necessary for:
Building a strategy supportive of culture
Reducing hierarchy
Increasing uncertainty avoidance
Enhancing masculinity
The type of culture two companies in the same industry have will be:
Identical
Unique to each organization
Determined solely by the government
Always adaptive
