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35.Because they are taken as articles of faith, _____ do not require validation.
a.artifacts
b.basic underlying assumptions (page 261, easy)
c.actual values
d.espoused values
36.The person(s) best able to assess an organization’s basic underlying assumptions is/are probably _____.
a.the CEO
b.the board of directors
c.an outside consultant (page 261, moderate)
d.the internal accountants
37.One function of organizational culture is to provide members with _____, or a way to make sense of the organization’s arrangement of positions, activities, and events.
a.an interpretive scheme (page 262, moderate)
b.a sense of commitment
c.an external identity
d.a social control mechanism
38.The more future-oriented the national culture, and the less predictable and routine is an organization’s environment, then the _____ is the resistance to change in the organizational culture.
a.more desirable
b.more dysfunctional (page 262, easy)
c.more functional
d.more reliably interpretive
39.One of the two typologies for analyzing and understanding organizational culture in the context of national cultures is the “Underlying Dimensions” framework that Schein adapted from _____ model of cultures.
a.Trompenaars’
b.Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s (page 263, moderate)
c.Hofstede’s
d.Guillen’s
40.In Schein’s “Underlying Dimensions of Organization Culture” framework, the question “Is the ‘correct’ way for humans to behave to be dominant/proactive, harmonizing, or passive/fatalistic?” relates to the _____ dimension.
a.nature of reality and truth
b.nature of human relationships
c.nature of human activity (page 264, difficult)
d.nature of human nature
41.The Trompenaars and Hampton-Turner model of organization cultures differs from Schein’s approach in that it _____.
a.focuses more on external variables
b.develops a larger number of organizational types
c.links the types to specific national cultures (pages 264-265, difficult)
d.does not assume that national cultural differences help determine the type of corporate culture used
42.The _____ type of organizational culture is the classic bureaucratic structure, in which individual qualities are replaced with impersonal social roles.
a.Family Culture
b.Eiffel Tower (page 266, moderate)
c.Guided Missile
d.Incubator Culture
43.The _____ type of organizational culture is the most radically different, in that it encourages self-expression and self-fulfillment and minimizes organizational structure and culture.
a.Family Culture
b.Eiffel Tower
c.Guided Missile
d.Incubator Culture (page 267, moderate)
44.In trying to change organizational culture, leaders can expect to have much influence over the _____ and relatively little influence over the _____.
a.meaning of work; selection of new members
b.socialization of new members; selection of new members
c.artifacts and manifestations; underlying assumptions (page 268, moderate)
d.underlying assumptions; socialization of new members
