Deck 10: Culture

Question 1

'Is' thinking is more likely to threaten managerial identity.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Strong organization cultures guarantee sustained organizational success.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Which of the following are characteristics of 'Values' according to Schein (1992)?

A)Cultural artefacts
B)Basic assumptions
C)Shared organizational responses
D)The protestant work ethic

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Culture can lead organizational effectiveness in which of the following ways?

A)It provides meaning to employees
B)It establishes norms linked to organization goals
C)It provides stability
D)It challenges the status quo

Question 5

There exists in some organizations a subculture in which the values, beliefs and norms of one group are at odds with the culture as promoted by senior management.

Question 6

Which of the following are elements in the Handy (1993) 'typology' of organization cultures?

A)The task culture
B)The role culture
C)The consensus culture
D)The 'Ideal' culture

Question 7

Which of the following are tenets of 'excellent' companies according to Peters and Waterman (1982)?

A)Valued diversity
B)Close to the customer
C)Stick to the knitting
D)All of the above

Question 8

Management influences on organizational culture can never be complete as a range of other influences external to the organization have an important impact on organizational members.

Question 9

Ways that worked well in one place are bound to be successful everywhere.

Question 10

Functionalism considers consensus to be the natural state of affairs in an organization.

Question 11

The principal values in any one organization are a product of a collective accommodation between organizational requirements and individual members' aspirations.

Question 12

Which of the following are elements of the 'Psychological Contract'?

A)Hours
B)Holidays
C)Implicit employer expectations
D)Loyalty

Question 13

Which of the following are characteristics of 'practical hermeneutic theories'?

A)Theories to better understand organisations
B)Prescriptive theories
C)Descriptive theories
D)Theories which reflect on organisations

Question 14

The challenge of cultural transmission mechanisms is to match the culture to organizational circumstances.

Question 15

Which of the following is an aspect of organizational culture?

A)Standard uniforms
B)Shared values
C)Shared norms
D)Shared religion

Question 16

Contributors to the 'Is' perspective on organization culture broadly agree on which of the following?

A)Culture is jointly produced by everyone
B)Culture can be difficult to manage
C)Employees are passive in relation to organization culture
D)Culture cannot be changed

Question 17

Cultural engineering is an attempt to change an organization's culture to better align the organization and its members to the interests or values of managers.

Question 18

Culture is intangible as it consists only of perceptions of organizational values, beliefs and norms.

Question 19

Which of the following are features of a mainstream perspective of organization culture?

A)An desire to engender harmony
B)A contingency approach
C)A desire to ensure that employees have the right values
D)Organic emergence of culture

Question 20

Which of the following are possible reactions to corporate culture?

A)Open non-adherence
B)Celebration
C)Unequivocal adherence
D)Exit