Management: Chapter 2
Roadtec Tire Company has a corporate culture that emphasizes an internal focus on the involvement and participation of employees, placing high value on meeting the needs of employees. The company is known for its caring, family-like atmosphere. Which of the following types of corporate culture does Roadtec possess?
Involvement culture
Which of the following types of culture values and rewards a methodical, rational, and orderly way of doing things?
Consistency culture
An achievement culture is found in an environment that is dynamic and requires high-risk decision making
False
An example of part of the legal-political dimension of the general environment is a government's report on the decline of unemployment rate
False
In the quadrants of organizational performance and culture, companies in Quadrant A represent the high-performance culture
False
In today's business environment, most companies operate in a stable and rigid environment
False
Managers in partnering organizations, given the increasing environmental uncertainity, are shifting from a partnership orientation to an adversarial orientation
False
The consistency culture has an external focus and a consistency orientation for a dynamic environment
False
The set of key values, beliefs, understandings, and norms that are shared by members of an organization are combined to create the symbols of an organization
False
The task environment dimension includes all elements that occur naturally on Earth, including plants, animals, rocks, and resources such as air, water, and climate
False
GreenTech Candies is a U.S. based company that manufactures and distributes candy bars and snack foods globally. The company sources most of its cocoa and sugar from S. American companies. This business relationship highlights which of the following dimensions of the task environment?
Suppliers
A narrative based on events within the organization that is frequently repeated is called an organizational story
True
Corporate culture plays a key role in creating an organizational climate that enables learning, and innovative responses to threats from the external environment, challenging new opportunites or organizational crises
True
Current employees, management, and especially corporate culture are part of an organization's internal environment
True
If Johnson Lumber provides trees for Westvaco Paper Manufacturing, then Johnson Lumber is considered a supplier for Westvaco.
True
In the quadrants of organizational performance and culture, Quadrant A represents organizations that are focused primarily on bottom-line results and pay little attention to organizational values
True
In the quadrants of organizational performance and culture, companies in Quadrant D put high emphasis on both culture and solid business performance as drivers of organizational success
True
Labor market forces affecting organizations right now include the growing need for computer-literate knowledge workers and the necessity for continuous investment in human resources through recruitment, education, and training
True
McDonald's, Burger King, and Checkers are competitors since all three sell fast food to individuals
True
Physical symbols are associated with the surface level or organizational culture
True
The cultural leader articulates a vision for the organizational culture that employees can believe in
True
The most recent U.S census data show that about 1/3 of all babies born 2011 were members of minority group
True
All of the following are a part of an organizations's task environment, except:
employers
The adaptability culture emerges in an environment that requires___________ response and _____________ decision making
fast, high-risk
In a study by Kotter and Heskett, evidence is provided to support that claim that ________ is important for performance
managing cultural values
When two or more organizations combine to become one, it is referred to as a:
merger
A_________ is a narrative based on true events that is repeated frequently and shared among organizational employees
story
A political lobbyist for general motors fills an essential boundary - spanning role
true
In the shift from an adversarial to a partnership orientation, and organization should:
use lawsuits to resolve conflicts
Jefferson and Squire is an advertising firm that is viewed as having a fast-paced and posh corporate culture. The company uses bold coloring with expensive accents in all office decor. This exemplies which of the following levels of corporate culture?
visible artifacts