Chapter 6 Multiple choice questions

. A list of corporate values posted on the wall in the reception area of an organization's headquarters would be classified by a culture researcher as an example of cultural:

Values correct incorrect

Assumptions correct incorrect

Artifacts correct incorrect

Beliefs correct incorrect

. Which one of the methods below is not typically used as an interpretative method for studying culture?

Surveys correct incorrect

Grounded theory correct incorrect

Thick description correct incorrect

Ethnomethodology correct incorrect

. According to Hofstede, national cultures such as Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sweden, in which people are more accepting of innovative ideas and eccentric or deviant behavior, are which of the following?

High in uncertainty avoidance correct incorrect

Low in uncertainty avoidance correct incorrect

More masculine correct incorrect

High power distance correct incorrect

. Which of the dimensions Hofstede used to define differences between national cultures refers to the degree to which members of a culture are expected to act independently of other members?

Individualism correct incorrect

Power distance correct incorrect

Masculinity correct incorrect

Uncertainty avoidance correct incorrect

. A cultural analysis of a company produces the list shown below. This list exemplifies which of Schein's levels of culture? Treat employees well and they will treat customers well. People want to have fun at work. Conformity detracts from our performance, diversity enhances it.

Artifacts correct incorrect

Values correct incorrect

Norms correct incorrect

Assumptions correct incorrect

. According to Siehl and Martin, a subculture that supports the larger or dominant culture in an organization is referred to as:

Countercultural correct incorrect

Orthogonal correct incorrect

Occupational correct incorrect

Enhancing correct incorrect

. According to Hofstede's initial study, there are four dimensions of difference between national cultures. Which of the following is not one of the dimensions Hofstede studied?

Uncertainty avoidance correct incorrect

Power distance correct incorrect

Masculinity correct incorrect

Paradoxicality correct incorrect

. Seeing culture as a management tool is characteristic of which perspective?

Symbolic correct incorrect

Postmodern correct incorrect

Modernist correct incorrect

Dramaturgic correct incorrect

. Which of the following is not a process of cultural dynamics in Hatch's (1993) model?

Symbolization correct incorrect

Rationalization correct incorrect

Interpretation correct incorrect

Realization correct incorrect

. Postmodern studies of organizational culture invoke:

Thick description correct incorrect

Cultural dynamics correct incorrect

Dramaturgy correct incorrect

Intertextuality correct incorrect