MGT 370: Chapter 02 Assignment: The Environment and Corporate Culture

The organization is stable and structured, with clarity and established procedures.

Consistency

Managers work in an internal environment, which includes __________.

Culture

In your company, people talk about Owen, the auto mechanic who stripped an entire car to find an electrical problem, as a role model for everyone to follow.

Hero

President Barack Obama's placing a six-month moratorium on offshore drilling

legal-political

Every year, the entire company gathers to watch employees with 25 years of service get a gold watch, showing that the company values loyalty and length of service.

Ceremony

Which of the following statements are true about organizational culture? (Check all that apply.)

-Culture can create a competitive advantage for a company. -Employees may be unaware of the underlying assumptions that guide an organization's culture. -The actions managers take can change a company's culture.

You are trying to get a group of students interested in forming an organization to help fight fee increases at your college. Unfortunately, things don't seem to be going very well—nobody in your group volunteered to go to a meeting with your college president next week. You want to create a culture that is active and involved. What should you do? (Check all that apply.)

-Paint a verbal picture for your team of what life would be like if fees were reduced. -Make sure that you do what you want your team to do. If you want them to volunteer, you need to volunteer, too. -Make sure that you do what you want your team to do. If you want them to volunteer, you need to volunteer, too.

Heidi tells you that she wants to systematically analyze how the culture of Camp Bow Wow relates to its environment. Read about the following event and tell her what aspects of the company's environment it directly involves. A national pet supply retailer adds dog day care services to a dozen of its stores in large cities. (Check all that apply.)

-Task environment -Competitors

The organization is accomplishment oriented, with the focus on competition and getting jobs done.

Achievement

The organization is dynamic and changing, where people take risks.

Adaptibility

Employees in engineering or research and development look outside the organization for new technological developments, innovations, and raw materials.

Boundary-spanning roles

Rayovac produces batteries in special Disney packaging for sale at all Disney theme parks.

Inter-organizational partnerships

The organization is very personal, much like an extended family.

Involvement

Based on previous research regarding the impact of values on business performance, you would expect that __________ managers would have higher-performing companies.

Japanese

Walmart recently teamed with Bharti Enterprises, Inc. to create a new wholesale business that supplies restaurants, hospitals, vegetable vendors, and hotels.

Joint ventures

United Airlines buys Continental Airlines to create one airline company with more than 87,000 employees.

Mergers

Heidi says that Camp Bow Wow needs to have "a very strong culture." A strong organizational culture is made up of different components, both visible and invisible. When analyzing the fit between an organization's culture and the environment, it is important to consider all the components of that culture. Which of these is a story that would convey Camp Bow Wow's culture?

One day, a dog owner was in a car accident and couldn't pick up her dog, so Sue Ryan took that dog home with her overnight to take care of it.

"I Am Canadian" is not only an eye-catching advertisement, it encourages Molson employees to act in a way that displays their pride in their country.

Slogan

Laws such as the Affordable Care Act and technologies such as mobile apps are components of CVS Health's __________, while the company's customers are not.

Task Environment

Doeringer's research suggests that Japanese managers pay __________ attention to values and __________ attention to business performance.

a lot of, a lot of

In the video, Heidi Genahl says, "You have to have a very strong culture... one that doesn't allow for people to color outside of the lines, but yet taps into their creativity and innovation." Camp Bow Wow likely has __________, responding flexibly to the environment while maintaining a focus on the managers and employees.

an involvement culture

In an example of __________ , many companies lobby the U.S. federal government through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an interorganizational partnership.

boundary spanning

When Ford celebrated the 35th anniversary of "Built Ford Tough," Truck Group marketing manager Doug Scott said the company had no plans to scrap the __________ for its top-selling vehicles, saying "We plan to deliver."

ceremony

BP stock prices falling 25% during the first month after the oil spill

economic

Chicago Youth Centers, a nonprofit that provides services to children ages 3 to school age, entered an __________ with Family Focus, which serves children ages 0 to 3, so that each organization could achieve cost savings and enhance its services.

interorganizational partnership

A trend has been for states to increase their minimum wage, and at the beginning of 2014, 13 states raised the minimum amount employers may pay most workers. The change in these regulations and the ongoing advocacy for more such changes is part of the __________ of the general environment.

legal-political dimension

Oil seeping into pelican nesting grounds, which will place the brown pelican back on the endangered species list

natural

Cell phones and laptops work because of minerals like tin, tantalum, and tungsten. The __________ for these elements stretches from mines in Africa to trading houses, exporters, and refiners before entering the device-manufacturing process.

natural dimension