Describe the various strategies that can be used for managing competitive interdependencies.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2Which of the following statements is true regarding mechanistic organizational structures?
A) Mechanistic structures are highly decentralized.
B) Mechanistic structures encourage a culture in which innovation and flexibility are the desired end states.
C) Mechanistic structures are flat.
D) Mechanistic structures give little personal autonomy to employees.
Question 3Compare and contrast the two manageable risk segments of the strategy-culture matrix: manage the change and manage around the culture.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 4A ________ structure is the system of interrelated beliefs, preferences, expectations, and values that a person uses to define problems and events.
A) cognitive
B) affective
C) normative
D) mimetic
Question 5Describe the core characteristics of a culture.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 6Which of the following statements about property rights is true?
A) In an organization top managers have the strongest property rights.
B) Distribution of property rights has no effect on the instrumental values in the organization.
C) The property rights are the rights of the customers to demand compensation when a product purchased by them is faulty.
D) The distribution of property rights to different stakeholders determines how effective an organization is.
Question 7When an organization uses a ________ approach to knowledge management, it ensures that knowledge is carefully collected, analyzed, and stored in databases where it can be retrieved easily by users who input organization-specific commands and keywords
A) cognitive
B) personalization
C) codification
D) systems thinking
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