Demonstrate your understanding of the material by identifying and reflecting on different types of organizational cultures.

• Describe an organization's culture.
• Explain the difference between a healthy culture and a toxic culture.
• Identify the cultural values associated with various types of cultures.
• Describe the strategies leaders use to shape organizational culture.

Choose an organization to focus on as you answer the following questions. You may choose your current employer, a previous employer

1. Is this a healthy culture or a toxic culture, and why? Describe the strength, responsiveness, and performance of the organization's culture.
2. Describe two artifacts, two values, and two assumptions of the organization's culture.Are these three factors aligned? How does this alignment/misalignment affect performance at the individual level? At the organizational level?
3. What type of culture best describes this organization, and why?
4. How do you or the organization's leader(s) shape the organization's culture? How well do these strategies work? What could you or the leader(s) do to shape the culture in a more effective way?