Top management has a major impact on the organizations' culture by:
A) providing training.
B) establishing norms that filter down through the organization.
C) socializing the applicant.
D) ensuring a proper match of personal and organizational values.
Question 2The selection process helps sustain the organization's culture by:
A) ensuring a proper match of personal and organizational values.
B) providing training.
C) socialization the applicant.
D) establishing norms.
Question 3A company interested in using a network structure would be spending time ________.
A) finding ways to ensure employees behave in predictable, accountable ways
B) trying to eliminate role ambiguity for employees with two bosses
C) seeing which specialist companies could perform business activities cheaper
D) deciding how to divide their functions into certain regions to best serve customers' needs
Question 4A company operating within a ________ focuses on one functional activity in which it excels, such as research and development, and then outsources the rest of its other functional activities to other companies.
A) network structure
B) product structure
C) geographic structure
D) divisional structure
Question 5The sales and production departments within the television company Omega need to communicate with one another or the company will not produce enough televisions to fulfill its sales needs.
The problem is that these two departments report to different directors. There is poor communication between these two departments. It would be BEST for the company to work on ________ in order to produce enough televisions.
A) flattening its structure
B) decentralizing authority
C) role enlargement
D) mutual adjustment
Question 6In a ________ employees are linked to an organization's centralized databases via computers, faxes, and videoconferencing.
A) virtual organization
B) matrix organization
C) network organization
D) cross-functional organization
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