55. According to the Change Competency, "Harley-Davidson," the CEO revitalized the Harley Hogs, a customer group, to recapture the Harley mystique.
ANS: T Group Dynamics
56. Problems related to organizational culture and their resistance to change has been one of the most significant barriers to successful corporate mergers.
ANS: T | Group Dynamics
57. One of the most useful frameworks for describing organizational culture identifies four pure types of organizational culture as follows: autocratic, productive, worker oriented, and consumer.
ANS: F
One of the most useful frameworks for describing organizational culture identifies four pure types of organizational culture as follows: bureaucratic, clan, entrepreneurial, and market.
Group Dynamics
58. The bureaucratic, clan, entrepreneurial, and market organizational cultures are characterized in terms of differences in the extent of formal control (ranging from stable to flexible) and focus of attention (ranging from internal to external).
ANS: T Group Dynamics
59. Few organizations can clearly be classified as having either a purely bureaucratic, clan, entrepreneurial, or market culture. While the extreme corners of the four quadrant model represent the four pure types of culture, and would characterize a culturally homogeneous organization, in many culturally fragmented organizations, multiple cultures will exist and may compete for superiority, implying that no one of the four pure types would be an appropriate fit.
ANS: T Group Dynamics
60. Generally there is a best type of organizational cultures for a given type of organization under all conditions.
ANS: F
Different organizational cultures may be appropriate under different conditions, with no one type of culture being ideal for every situation.
Group Dynamics
ANS: T Group Dynamics
56. Problems related to organizational culture and their resistance to change has been one of the most significant barriers to successful corporate mergers.
ANS: T | Group Dynamics
57. One of the most useful frameworks for describing organizational culture identifies four pure types of organizational culture as follows: autocratic, productive, worker oriented, and consumer.
ANS: F
One of the most useful frameworks for describing organizational culture identifies four pure types of organizational culture as follows: bureaucratic, clan, entrepreneurial, and market.
Group Dynamics
58. The bureaucratic, clan, entrepreneurial, and market organizational cultures are characterized in terms of differences in the extent of formal control (ranging from stable to flexible) and focus of attention (ranging from internal to external).
ANS: T Group Dynamics
59. Few organizations can clearly be classified as having either a purely bureaucratic, clan, entrepreneurial, or market culture. While the extreme corners of the four quadrant model represent the four pure types of culture, and would characterize a culturally homogeneous organization, in many culturally fragmented organizations, multiple cultures will exist and may compete for superiority, implying that no one of the four pure types would be an appropriate fit.
ANS: T Group Dynamics
60. Generally there is a best type of organizational cultures for a given type of organization under all conditions.
ANS: F
Different organizational cultures may be appropriate under different conditions, with no one type of culture being ideal for every situation.
Group Dynamics
