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M: Organizational Behavior 2nd Edition by Steven McShane, Mary Von Glinow

Edition 2ISBN: 978-0077801960
book M: Organizational Behavior 2nd Edition by Steven McShane, Mary Von Glinow cover

M: Organizational Behavior 2nd Edition by Steven McShane, Mary Von Glinow

Edition 2ISBN: 978-0077801960
Exercise 88
Scenario: Almasota, Inc.
Almasota, Inc., a major consumer products firm, has annual dinners for the entire firm where they recognize outstanding organizational performance or citizenship. During these dinners, employees habitually stand up when the most senior executive enters the room.
The employees practice of standing when the most senior executive enters is:
A) evidence that the meeting has employees who hold countercultural values
B) evidence that the company has an adaptive culture
C) a ritual that probably symbolizes the organization's dominant culture
D) a form of deculturation that eventually undermines the organization's dominant culture
E) evidence that the company's espoused values differ from its enacted values
Explanation
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