Deck 9: Leadership and the Complex Health Organization: Strategically Managing the Organizational Environment Before It Manages You

Question 1

List three items that would be considered a level 1 organizational culture artifact.
a. ________________________________________________
b. ________________________________________________
c. ________________________________________________

Answer 1

No Answer.

Question 2

List three items from the secondary reinforcement mechanisms by Schein.
a. _________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________

Answer 2

No Answer.

Question 3

What are three characteristics of an institutional organization?
a. _________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________

Answer 3

No Answer.

Question 4

What are three characteristics of a horizontal organization?
a. _________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________

Question 5

What are three of the five CAAVE styles for strategic partnerships and sourcing?
a. _________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________

Question 6

What are three of the four CAAVE model quadrants? Provide a basic description of each.
a. _________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________

Question 7

How does strategic planning influence organizational culture?

Question 8

Contrast an institutional organization with a resource-dependent organization and a contingent organization.

Question 9

A _______________ is an aspiration of a better future for the health organization.

A) vision
B) strategy
C) mission
D) objective
E) horizontal Integration

Question 10

_______________ align organizational resources to meet the stated goals, while _______________ are created to produce a step-by-step or task-level implementation sequence.

A) Objectives, forecasts
B) Objectives, action steps
C) Goals, objectives
D) Strategies, objectives
E) Strategies, action steps

Question 11

Horizontal organizations are more _____________ than vertical organizations considering the external environment.

A) suspect
B) controlling
C) dominant
D) economic
E) None of these

Question 12

Strategies follow "a ______________of development."

A) culture
B) research
C) process
D) decision logic
E) None of these is correct.

Question 13

Types of internal organizations can be institutional, _______________, and contingent.

A) resource dependent
B) dynamic
C) vertical
D) horizontal
E) integrated

Question 14

________________ is a pattern of basic assumptions that are invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and integration.

A) Climate
B) Power
C) Adaption
D) Culture
E) None of these is correct.

Question 15

Mission is why your organization exists, what business it is in, who it serves, and where it provides its products or services.

Question 16

Strategies follow "a program logic of development."

Question 17

Objectives should be measurable.

Question 18

Institutional organizations and environments highlight the importance of social, political, and psychological aspects of organizational dynamics.

Question 19

Vertical organizations are organizations that have cooperative relationships, affiliations, or ownership rights with multiple outside agents and actors.

Question 20

In the true sense of organizational dynamics there are actually few true vertical organizations.

Question 21

Artifacts and creations are the most visible elements of culture and include the organization's constructed social and physical environment.

Question 22

Stakeholders cannot directly or indirectly influence the success of your organization.

Question 23

Missions, Visions, and Trials are the sequential building blocks of planning to successfully achieve the mission, but also to strive to achieve the vision of the health organization.

Question 24

Objectives align organizational resources to meet the stated goals.

Question 25

Strategy-making processes are organizational-level phenomena involving key decisions made on behalf of the entire organization.

Question 26

Forecasting is the active development of projections and likely scenarios based on patterns indicated from monitoring.

Question 27

The horizontal organization builds a monument unto itself and seeks to minimize reliance on any and all outside stakeholders and actors.

Question 28

An example of fortress culture is an organization where the most important requirement for employees in this culture is to fit into the group.