Deck 8: Workplace Culture and Socialization

Question 1

Aleksey Stakhanov was

A) An influential organizational theorist
B) The Soviet leader who followed Lenin
C) A model Soviet worker
D) The goalkeeper for the Anaheim Ducks

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Anticipatory socialization commonly occurs in the career of police work.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Socialization is likely to be more intense and extensive when workers experience some degree of _____________.

A) Affiliation
B) Danger
C) Adhesion
D) Altruism

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The rites of passage phase incorporation is generally marked by _______________.

A) A worker assimilating into the subculture of an occupation
B) A ceremony
C) A worker becoming socially isolated from other occupational cultures
D) The loss of all previous identities

Question 5

Engineering subcultures usually harmonize with managerial subcultures.

Question 6

A degree of social isolation can result from a value system that divides the social realm into "us" and "them".

Question 7

Workers lower down on the occupational scale have more opportunities for socialization through long-term training programs.

Question 8

Occupations in the _____________ demonstrate clear examples of distinct career stages and career progression:

A) Clergy
B) Government
C) Military
D) None of the above
True/False Questions

Question 9

Mechanical solidarity refers to:
A) An adherence to traditional ways of doing things

A) A commonality of values and behaviors
B) Cohesion and cooperation among all workers
C) All of the above

Question 10

The significant amount of job-hopping experienced by most workers means that work-related socialization will ________________________.

A) Be actively resisted
B) Be more difficult at each new job
C) Take longer at each new job
D) None of the above

Question 11

Elements of an occupational identity include:

A) Distinctive vocabulary
B) Inherent interpersonal conflict
C) Alienation
D) A and C only

Question 12

For future practitioners, occupational socialization entails learning how to _________ an identity that is congruent with an occupation and the work of that occupation.

A) Fake
B) Perform
C) Assume
D) Imitate

Question 13

Workplaces tend to share in a society's overarching culture.

Question 14

The extent and intensity of occupational socialization is essentially the same for all occupations.

Question 15

The Challenger catastrophe was the result of

A) O-ring failure
B) Divergent organizational subcultures
C) An unusually cold night prior to launch
D) All of the above

Question 16

Describe the occupational socialization of medical students. How does one's specific educational training contribute to the process of occupational identity?

Question 17

How would you describe the difference between an "official" workplace culture and an "unofficial" workplace culture? Give an example of each.

Question 18

The elements of a particular culture may include

A) Musical instruments
B) Dialect
C) Clothing styles
D) Professional sports teams
E) All of the above

Question 19

Staff-line conflicts can stem from differences in:

A) Education
B) Priorities
C) Values
D) All of the above

Question 20

Take one element of an organization's subculture and note how it affects a worker's occupational identity.

Question 21

According to Durkheim, how does "mechanical solidarity" contribute to working life?

Question 22

What is the distinction between a "job" and a "career?"

Question 23

How may organizational countercultures affect the success or failure of an organization?