Deck 7: Auditing Organizational Innovation

Question 1

An assessment instrument can help involve organizational members in the change process.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Organizational Metaphor assesses a firm's entrepreneurial culture in a formal, inclement way.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

One of the best ways to raise a good discussion about a firm's "innovative readiness" is to complete the Organizational Assessment of Innovation and Creativity questionnaire.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The CEAI provides an indication of a firm's likelihood of being able to successfully implement an innovation strategy.

Question 5

Managers are least likely to engage in innovative behavior when the organizational antecedents to that behavior.

Question 6

A corporate innovation strategy is successfully implemented only when all affected individuals are committed to it.

Question 7

Lower scores on the CEAI factors are related to increased entrepreneurial activity.

Question 8

The identification of employee perceptions is nonessential to the overall change process.

Question 9

Environments that dismisses innovation produces weak elements of innovative behavior.

Question 10

The innovative audit cannot be used by not-for-profit organizations.

Question 11

What is one of the five factors that foster an entrepreneurial culture?

A) Management limitations
B) Organization support
C) Allocation of time
D) Independence

Question 12

Allows employees to describe aspects of the firm that are not always positive in a way that is non-threatening and humorous.

A) Management Comparison
B) Organizational Metaphor
C) Organizational Assessment of Innovation and Creativity
D) The Corporate Entrepreneurial Assessment Instrument

Question 13

Measures the key internal organizational factors that influence a firm's entrepreneurial activities and outcomes.

A) Management Enterprising Assessment Tool
B) Corporate Transition Appraisal Instrument
C) Organizational Assessment of Innovation & Creativity
D) Corporate Entrepreneurial Assessment Instrument

Question 14

__________________is a bottom-up process in which product champions pursue new ideas, often through a political process, by means of which they develop and coordination activities associated with an innovation until it achieves success.

A) Induced strategic behavior
B) Emergent strategy formation
C) Autonomous strategic behavior
D) Exploitation of innovation

Question 15

Determining that the value of innovative behavior exceeds that of other behaviors leads managers to ____________.

A) Implement
B) Facilitate
C) Champion
D) All of the above

Question 16

The CEAI instrument consists of how many Likert-style questions?

A) 43
B) 48
C) 38
D) 22

Question 17

What is one of the three methods used to assess the level of innovative factors which exist in an organization?

A) Innovative Readiness in Organizations
B) Innovation Management
C) The Organizational Metaphor
D) Entrepreneurial Readiness in Organizations

Question 18

What is one way to achieve the maximum benefit from the Corporate Entrepreneurial Assessment Instrument?

A) Agree with others perceptions
B) Discuss the strong and weak points of your culture
C) Focus on improving weak points only
D) Stay centered on self-improvement

Question 19

What is one of the five steps for using the Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment Instrument?

A) Management scoring
B) Entrepreneurial progression
C) Characterizing the score
D) Improving your innovative culture

Question 20

Who identified several actions large corporations can take to develop the right "atmosphere" for entrepreneurial behavior to flourish?

A) Quinn (1985)
B) Souder (1981)
C) Miller (1983)
D) None of the above

Question 21

Describe an innovative organizational culture.

Question 22

Why can the CEAI significantly benefit organizations and is of value to managers seeking to develop a corporate innovation strategy?

Question 23

List and define the five stable antecedents of middle-level managers' entrepreneurial behavior.

Question 24

Corporate innovation (entrepreneurship) can take two primary forms-autonomous strategic behavior and induced strategic behavior. Define them.