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Problems related to organizational culture and their resistance to change

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.

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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.

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Samsung keeps everyone on edge when it comes to Samsung Galaxy S III

With everyone on edge waiting for the expected May 3rd introduction of the Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Denmark has raised the anticipation level a bit by putting up a new image on its Facebook page. The picture shows a blue fabric covering up a phone (which we can see the outline of) while a date and time is printed over the fabric. The date shows May 3rd 2012, which we already expected to be the date that the Samsung Galaxy S III would be introduced for all the world to see. The time refers to 8pm local time in Denmark. Heck, there might even be a tablet announced the very same day. But we digress. What everyone cares about is the device hidden underneath that blue cover.

Can we glean anything-anything at all by looking at the silhouette and shape of the blue cover? If you look hard, you might be able to see curved glass and the rounded corners similar to the design of the Samsung GALAXY Nexus. And who knows for sure if that is a Samsung Galaxy S III or just a placeholder being  covered up? It would have been a lot easier had a Samsung employee dropped a prototype of  the Galaxy S III on a bar floor somewhere before the Korean based manufacturer locked down the device.

source: SamsungDenmark via Phandroid

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