Organizational Behavior Key Concepts Skills and Best Practices 5th Edition

Organizational
Behavior Key
Concepts Skills and
Best Practices 5th
Edition
Organizational
Behavior Key
Concepts Skills and
Best Practices 5th
Edition

, Organizational
Behavior Key
Concepts Skills and
Best Practices 5th
Edition

,Chapter 02

Organizational Culture, Socialization, and Mentoring


True / False Questions


1. Organizational culture is passed on to new employees through the
process of socialization.

True False

2. Organizational culture influences the type of organizational structure
adopted by a company.

True False

3. Espoused values represent the explicitly stated values and norms that
are preferred by an organization.

True False

4. The company bulletin board on which employees post notes is an
example of an enacted value.

True False

, 5. Since a gap between espoused values and enacted values has no
influence on employee attitudes and organizational performance,
managers should not waste time on reducing such gaps.

True False

6. When basic assumptions are widely held among employees, people will
find behavior based on an inconsistent value easier to follow.

True False

7. Changes in organizational culture occur rapidly at the level of basic
assumptions and only gradually at the level of observable artifacts.

True False

8. Giving members an organizational identity is one of the functions of
organizational culture.

True False

9. The competing values framework (CVF) provides a practical way for
managers to understand, measure, and improve profitability.

True False

10 Organizations can possess characteristics associated with more than
. one culture type.

True False

11 An organization cannot have both a clan culture and a hierarchical
. culture.

True False

12 The basic method by which a clan culture achieves effectiveness is
. collaboration.

True False