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As you join a new organization, your co-workers discuss the standard types of behavior that are considerable or acceptable within the organization. In this case, they are talking about the ____ of the organization.

  • Norms (correct)
  • Instrumental values
  • Terminal values
  • Beliefs

When you observe individuals within an organic organization responding to a new situation in a very similar way independently from one another; what most accurately describes the organizations' socialization process outcome?

  • Internalized role orientation
  • Individualized role orientation
  • Institutionalized role orientation (correct)
  • Instrumentalized role orientation

Agilent's focus on speed as part of its new organizational culture is best described as a change in which of the following concepts?

  • Terminal value
  • Instrumental value (correct)
  • Cultural assumption
  • Cultural artefact

Which of the following culture-structure combination is the most likely to enable organizational members to flexibly respond to changing environmental conditions?

<p>Weak organizational culture and a decentralized structure (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT an outsider stakeholder of an organization?

<p>Shareholders (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Agilent's aspired cultural transformation towards values of speed and focus best fits to employees with a preference for which kind of corporate culture?

<p>Responsive Culture (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is unsuitable as a means to change organizational culture?

<p>Keep stories about former leaders from the old culture alive to create a sense of legacy (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

An organization wishes to realign its culture. Under which circumstances is the culture most likely to be moldable into something better befitting the organization's structure?

<p>When the staff of the firm is a small, well-connected group (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

An organization wishes to achieve innovation and flexibility among its employees. Which of the following socialization tactics best fits this organizations' needs?

<p>Informal, random, investiture (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the case of the Taj Mahal Mumbai (module 3), we observed how all newly hired trainees have to go through a pre-designed classroom training program. This is an example of a(n) _________.

<p>Institutionalized role orientation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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