Question $6(1$ point$)$

Mechanistic structures work best:

Question $6$ options:

where employees dislike hierarchy and status

where employees perform tasks with high variety and low analyzability

in stable environments

in rapidly changing environments

where knowledge management is a competitive advantage to the organization

Question $7(1$ point$)$

Which strategy for merging two distinct organizational cultures results in two organizations developing a new culture that is shared?

Question $7$ options:

separation

assimilation

deculturation

integration

Question $8(1$ point$)$

Which strategy for merging two distinct cultures is most effective when the two companies have relatively weak cultures with overlapping values?

Question $8$ options:

Integration

Separation

Deculturation

Assimilation

Question $9(1$ point$)$

Jose felt that his values did not align well with those of a firm at which he had recently taken a position in accounting, and after some thought Jose resigned his position. Jose$$s behaviour is an example of $\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$ in the ASA theory.

Question $9$ options:

betrayal

socialization

attrition

attraction

selection

Question $10(1$ point$)$

A wider span of control is possible where:

Question $10$ options:

the supervised employees are new and not fully trained

the supervised employees perform similar tasks

the supervised employees have non$-$routine jobs

the organizations have a tall hierarchy

Question $11(1$ point$)$

What is the process whereby employees perform fewer and fewer task within their jobs?

Question $11$ options:

specialization

bicultural audit

coordination

integration

organizational charting

Question $12(1$ point$)$

From the perspective of organizational culture, $\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$ refers to how individuals see themselves $-$ as part of the organization or perhaps as part of a profession.

Question $12$ options:

control

initiative

identity

direction

Question $13(1$ point$)$

Rituals are:

Question $13$ options:

physical structures that convey the dominant values of an organization$$s culture

deliberate attempts to communicate the corporate culture to new employees

games that people play to defy the dominant culture and, instead, support countercultural beliefs and values

programmed routines of daily organizational life that dramatize the organization$$s culture.

events that suggest the organization$$s culture is about to change

Question $14(1$ point$)$

$\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$ is most appropriate, of A$,$ B$,$ C$,$ D$,$ and E below, in complex environments.

Question $14$ options:

Centralized decision making

Decentralized decision making

A matrix structure

A functional department arrangement

A high level of specialization

Question $15(1$ point$)$

When work activities are too complex to standardize through procedures or goals, companies often coordinate work effort:

Question $15$ options:

by giving one employee most of the tasks previously divided among many people

by extensively training employees

through further division of labour

through formal hierarchy

through direct supervision

Question $16(1$ point$)$

$\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$ is defined as the number of different job titles and the number of different departments and levels in an organization.

Question $16$ options:

Formalization

Complexity

Span of control

Centralization

Inflexibility

Question $17(1$ point$)$

What is the term for the degree to which the organization has official rules, regulations, and procedures?

Question $17$ options:

formalization

standardization

complexity

decentralization

centralization

Question $18(1$ point$)$

One problem with a functional structure is that:

Question $18$ options:

it emphasizes subunit goals more than organizational goals

it prevents companies from creating economies of scale in their talent pool

it is more difficult to directly supervise employees within each department

it makes it difficult to permit greater specialization of skills

employees have difficulty creating career paths within their area of knowledge

Question $19(1$ point$)$

Which values are reflected in the way individuals actually behave?

Question $19$ options:

hidden values

assumed values

perceived values

enduring values

enacted values

Question $20(1$ point$)$

The $$Always Fresh$$ sign at Tim Horton$$s characterizes which artifact of organization culture?

Question $20$ options:

rite

assumption

symbol

ritual

story