Org Theory Ch 13 Quiz
When employees in the acquired firm want to hold on to their firm's culture even though it does not fit the external environment.
A deculturation strategy of merging two corporate cultures should be applied:
Corporate culture is embedded in the minds of employees and therefore will weaken with high turnover.?
A stable workforce helps to maintain a strong corporate culture because
Transformational leaders develop or change the organization's culture. Founders and corporate leaders develop the systems and structures that support their personal values. Founders and corporate leaders are often visionaries whose energetic style provides a powerful role model for others to follow. Founders and corporate leaders strengthen or change corporate culture by communicating and enacting their vision of the future. All of the above.
How do founders and corporate leaders affect corporate culture?
Conduct a bicultural audit.
One of the first steps in a merger to minimize cultural clashes is to:
Learning and adjustment.
Organizational socialization is best described as a process of
Are focused outwardly on customers and others outside the organization rather than inwardly.
Organizations with an adaptive corporate culture:
A perceived discrepancy between employee expectations and reality.
Reality shock is:
If the cultural values are compatible with the organizational environment.
Companies with strong organizational cultures are more effective than companies with weak cultures:
Employees with a strong sense of ownership over the company's success. An external focus on the needs of customers and other stakeholders. Only 'A' and 'C'.?
If an organization has an adaptive culture, it likely has:
Bicultural audit.
In a merger, the process of diagnosing cultural relations between the companies and determining the extent to which cultural clashes will likely occur is called:
Deculturation
In which strategy does the acquiring company impose its culture and business practices on the acquired organization?
An adaptive culture.
Most employees at United FiberTech support the idea that the company's success depends on their willingness to continually change and improve customer service. United FiberTech probably has:
Maintain surveillance over and critique of the company's dominant culture.?
One advantage of countercultures is that they:
It is a powerful form of social control that influences employee decisions and behavior. It is the social glue that bonds employees together and makes them feel part of the organization. It helps employees understand what goes on and why things happen in the company. It does all of the above.
Organizational culture does which of the following?
assumptions, beliefs and values that subconsciously guide employee thoughts and actions.
Organizational culture is best described as the basic pattern of shared:
Encouraging employees to communicate through the organizational grapevine. Allowing tribal storytellers to talk about the organization's past and future. Increasing social opportunities to enact corporate rituals. Telling job applicants about the organization's culture. All of the above.
Organizational culture is strengthened by:
It is a form of social control. It bonds employees together and makes them feel part of the organizational experience. It helps employees to understand organizational events. Correct! It does all of the above.
Organizational culture serves what purpose in organizations?
When they describe real people and are assumed to be true.
Organizational stories are most effective at communicating organizational culture:
May eventually use those dissenting values to build a new set of dominant values in the future.
Organizations that tolerate or encourage subcultures with dissenting values:
Role management
Resolving conflicts between work and nonwork mainly occurs during what stage of socialization?
Programmed routines of daily organizational life that dramatize the organization's culture.
Rituals are:
Organizational culture.
The assumptions, beliefs and values that subconsciously guide employee thoughts and actions are called:
Conduct a careful analysis of many organizational artifacts.
The best way to measure an organization's culture is to:
Often reflects the organization's culture. Can potentially influence the organization's culture. Is a possible artifact of organizational culture. Is all of the above.
The building in which employees work:
Assumptions
The deepest element of organizational culture is:
Artifacts
The definition of organizational culture refers to all of these EXCEPT:
Employee beliefs and values
The hidden elements of an organization's culture include:
Identify and diagnose differences in the corporate cultures of merging organizations.
The main purpose of a bicultural audit is to:
Help job applicants form accurate expectations of the organization and job.
The main purpose of realistic job previews is to:
The themes shared most widely by the organization's members.
An organization's dominant culture is:
Makes it more difficult for decision makers to identify problems or opportunities outside the mental model of that culture.
As an organization's culture gets stronger, it:
A ritual that probably symbolizes the organization's dominant culture.
At meetings of a major consumer products firm, employees habitually stand up when the most senior executive at the meeting enters the room. This practice represents:
Mental models represent the assumptions within an organization's culture.
How do mental models relate to the concept of organizational culture?
Preemployment
During what stage of socialization do people FIRST learn about the organization and job?
An adaptive culture.
Employees at SuperTech Services seek out opportunities rather than wait for them to arrive. They also have a strong sense of responsibility for the organization's performance. SuperTech likely has
During the process of organizational socialization. Long before the first day of work. Both 'A' and 'B'.?
Employees learn about the organization's culture:
