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