BUSI 610: Quiz 4
Question 1
All legal requirements are ethical standards
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Question 2
Legends are stories which are
... [Show More] consistent with the values and beliefs of the organization but are not supported by facts.
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Question 3
Culture represents the formal organization, whereas organizational structure, size, and strategy represent the informal organization.
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Questions 4
Symbols are narratives based on true events that are frequently shared among organizational employees and told to new employees to inform them about the organization
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Questions 5
Culture strength regers to there being a low number of differen subcultures within the culture as a whole.
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Question 6
A strong organizational culture is a primary characteristic of a learning organziation.
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Question 7:
Organic organizations encourage a bottom-up innovation process.
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Questions 8:
ABC Credit Union began offering a “Sweep Account,” in which funds ocer $500 in a checking account would be “swept” into a money-market, interest bearing, account until the account reached $100, at which point, funds from the money market accound would be “swept” back into the checking account. This is an example of a change.
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Question 9:
In the horizontal coordination model, the component means that each deparmrent involved with new poducts has excellent linkage with relevant sectors in the external environment.
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Question 10:
Leaders who have taken their companies through major successful transformations often have one thing in common: they focus on formulating and articulating a compelling vision and strategy that will guide the change process.
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Question 11:
Horizontal coordinations means that each department involved with new products has excellent linkage with relevant sectors in the external environment
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Question 12:
Structure and system changes are usally bottom-up, mandated by lower management, whereas product and technology changes may often come from the top down.
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Question 13:
Management science, although cumbersome, cannot product failures in decision making.
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Question 14:
Which of the following is not true regarding decsion-making in today’s environment?
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(Not there is less certainty about outcomes)
Question 15:
Which stage of the organizational decision making process occurs when alternative courses of action are considered and one alternative is selected and implemented?
Answer: Problem solution stage
Question 16:
The first four steps of the rational approach to decision making are specifically designed to help a manager.
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Question 17:
The management science approach to organizational decision making is the analog to the rational approach by individual managers.
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Question 18:
The incremental decision model is based on research showing that:
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(Not none of these)
Question 19:
Middle managers and lower-level employees do not have access to information that would increase their power.
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Question 20:
People at the bottom levels of an organization can never obtain more power than those in higher levels of the organization.
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Question 21:
Which of the following is a political tactic for increasing power?
Answer: all of these
Questions 22:
Confrontation as a method of reducing conflict is likely to be more effective when:
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Question 23:
Resources symbolize power and influence within an organization.
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Question 24:
The sources of intergroup conflict are goal incompatibility, differentiation, task interdependence, and limited resources.
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Question 25:
is difficult to measure because power differences are not defined on the organizational chart.
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Question 26:
Describe the dual core approach. How does the process of maangement change normally differ from technoloy change? Discuss.
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