Rites of ________ build and reinforce common bonds between organizational members.

Rites of ________ build and reinforce common bonds between organizational members.
 
  A) responsibility
  B) integration
  C) enhancement
  D) passage

Question 2

Which of the following statements is true regarding the unstructured model of decision-making?
 
  A) The unstructured model recognizes that decision-making takes place in a series of small, incremental steps that collectively have a major effect on organizational effectiveness over time.
  B) In an environment that changes suddenly or abruptly, the unstructured model prevents managers from changing quickly enough to meet new conditions.
  C) The unstructured model explains why and how managers can improve their programmed decision-making over time.
  D) According to the unstructured model, decision-making is a linear, sequential process.

Question 3

Which of the following statements is true regarding a cartel?
 
  A) Forming a cartel is illegal in the United States.
  B) A cartel is a strategic alliance among two or more organizations that agree to establish and share the ownership of a new business.
  C) A cartel is formed by companies to manage their symbiotic resource interdependencies.
  D) Participating in a cartel decreases the richness of a company's environment.

Question 4

The ________ model of decision-making turns the decision-making process around and argues that managers are as likely to start decision-making from the solution side as from the problem side.
 
  In other words, decision makers may propose solutions to problems that do not exist; they create a problem they can solve with solutions that are already available.
  A) Carnegie
  B) rational
  C) incrementalist
  D) garbage-can

Question 5

Over time, organizations develop certain ways of doing business that are collectively referred to as the _____ of the organization.
 
  a. culture
  b. mission
  c. net profit
  d. constraints
  e. vision

Question 6

Which of the following is most likely to be a disadvantage of the institutionalized role orientation?
 
  A) Members produce low quality outputs.
  B) Members have difficulty responding to changing conditions.
  C) Managers have difficulty creating an ethical culture.
  D) Members behave in unpredictable ways.

Question 7

A ________ is an association of firms that explicitly agree to coordinate their activities.
 
  A) cartel
  B) strategic alliance
  C) collusion
  D) joint venture

Question 8

When new soldiers are recruited in the military, they go through preestablished drills and learning experiences. This is an example of a(n) ________ socialization tactic.
 
  A) informal
  B) sequential
  C) disjunctive
  D) variable