MGT Final Chap 8
True
A corporate culture is a defined set of shared, taken-for-granted implicit assumptions that a group holds and that determines how it perceives, thinks about, and reacts to its various environments.
False
According to Chester I. Barnard, an organization is made up of at least one person who strives daily to achieve the organization's goals.
False
Max, an employee for a government shipping contractor, likes the strict culture that he finds with Trask Industries, which supplies equipment parts to several naval bases. There is very little focus on the external environment and little company flexibility due to the type of customers that Trask serves. Because the product it sells needs little improvement and there is virtually no competition, Trask Industries takes few risks. Trask Industries is an example of an adhocracy culture.
True
Mutual-benefit organizations are voluntary collectives whose purpose is to advance members' interests, while nonprofit organizations are formed to offer services to some clients, not to make a profit.
True
Optimistic people attempt to change or influence a decision or they adapt and move on.
False
The IT network that allows for the movement of organizational information within that company is known as the organizational structure.
False
Two advantages of decentralization are that (1) managers are encouraged to not solve their own problems, but rather to ask for assistance as soon as possible, and (2) decisions are made more slowly because they are discussed at a higher level of management.
Frank is a CPA who became interested in helping adults in some of the poorer neighborhoods file their taxes. He plans to start a tax filing center in a low-income area to help residents file their taxes at no cost. Frank's center is an example of a(n)
nonprofit organization
A company dress code and award ceremonies would be part of
observable artifacts
A(n) ______ is a system of consciously coordinated activities or forces of two or more people.
organization