Management Chapter 14

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Whenever a team in Ads Today, an advertising firm, wins a new contract, the successful team rings a loud bell and breaks out a bottle of champagne. In organizational culture, this practice would be considered:

A ceremony

Reality shock is:

A perceived discrepancy between employee expectations and reality

Which of the following are the observable indicators of organizational culture?

Artifacts

Which of the following organizational culture dimension is characterized by competitiveness and a low emphasis on social responsibility?

Aggressiveness

What is the significance of artifacts in organizational culture?

Artifacts represent the directly observable symbols and signs of an organization's culture

________ occurs when employees at the acquired company willingly embrace the cultural values of the acquiring organization.

Assimilation

One of the first steps to minimize a cultural clash in a merger is to:

Conduct a bicultural audit

Which strategy acquiring company impose its culture and business practices on the acquired organization?

Deculturation

The main purpose of a bicultural audit is to:

Identify and diagnose differences in the corporate cultures of merging organizations

Which of the following is an artifact?

Language

Which of the following is consistent with ASA theory?

Organizations have natural tendency to attract, select, and retain people with values that are consistent with organization's own culture

3 Stages of organizational socialization:

Preemployment, encounter and role management

Rituals are:

Programmed routines of daily organizational life that dramatize the organization's culture

_______ are unconscious, taken-for-granted perceptions or ideal prototypes of behavior that are considered the correct way to think and act toward problems and opportunities

Shared assumptions

The themes shared most widely by employees represent:

The organization's dominant culture


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