Chapter 19 Flashcards
Organizational __ is a system of shared assumptions, values, and beliefs, which governs how people behave in organizations.
Culture
What are the 7 Characteristic of Organizational Culture? :
1. Innovation
2. __ _ Detail
3. Emphasis on Outcome
4. Ephasis on __
5. Teamwork
6. __
7. Stability
- Attention to Detail
- Emphasis on People
- Agressivness
Risk Orientation
This characteristic measures the degree to which the culture encourages innovation and risk taking.
Innovation
Precision Orientation
This describe what characteristic of workplace culture?
Accuracy in the workplace is important to companies with a culture that places a high value on this characteristic.
Attention to Detail
Achievement Orientation
This characteristic is high for cultures that focus on results, but not on how the results are achieved.
Emphasis on Outcome
Fairness Orientation
The degree to which the culture focuses on the fair treatment of the people in the organization is measured by this characteristic.
Emphasis on People
Collaboration Orientation
This characteristic measures the importance that the culture places on work being done in teams.
Teamwork
Competitive Orientation
__ is measured by the importance a culture places on outperforming the competition.
Aggressivness
Rule Orientation
A company that encourages a steady and predictable course of action when making decisions places a high value on the __ characteristic.
Stability
Sense of __
This provides a way for the members of an organization to ‘define who we are.’
As it relates to Orginizational Culture
Sense of Identity
Culture __ the boundries.
What concept does this describe?
The unique culture of an organization provides members of that organization with unwritten behavioral guidelines that allow them to realize ‘what makes us different’ from other organizations.
Culture ‘defines the boundries’
What concept in orginizational culture does this describe?
Culture also generates __ among members of an organization.
Because they share common goals and work together to achieve those goals, people in organizations feel dedication to the group.
Generates Commitment
The culture of an organization acts as a social glue that provides unwritten __ and standards that define the rules of the game to its members.
Rules
Creating distinctions between organizations falls under the ‘__ defining’ function of organizational culture.
Boundray Defining
Dominant Culture OR Subculture
The __ culture is unique to that organization and provides its members with boundaries and guidelines that shape their behavior.
Dominant Culture
Dominant Culture OR Subculture
This type of culture consist of the core values of the dominant culture and additional values unique to the __.
Subculture
What factor of subculture does this describe?
When a group of people within an organization operate in a location that is physically apart from the rest of the organization, a subculture often forms among members of the detached group.
The members of this subculture establish unique values that provide them with a sense of identity and help them perform their jobs correctly.
Geographical Separation
What factor of subculture does this describe?
People who work in the same department often form a subculture based on a unique set of values, which help them perform their jobs and are exclusive to their subculture.
Departmental Designation
What factor of subculture does this describe?
People who perform the same type of job often form a subculture based on unique values, which help them perform their jobs and are exclusive to their subculture.
Functional Specialty
What factor of subculture does this describe?
The length of time served in the organization. People who have been with the organization for the same length of time often form a subculture based on their shared experiences.
Tenure
Tenure, Identity, Functional Spec, Departmental Desig, OR Geographical S
This subculture concept include gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
Identity
__ form when a group of people within an organization share a common problem or experience that is unique to them.
Subcultures
New employees are taught to adapt to the culture of organizations through __ methods, which indoctrinate new employees to the way things are done in the organization.
Socialization
Organizational __ is a system of shared assumptions, values, and beliefs, which governs how people behave in organizations.
Culture
__ in organizational culture occurs when the existing culture of an organization no longer advances the organization’s effectiveness in the marketplace.
Dysfunction
__ occurs when the culture of an organization becomes so well established that it is understood by people inside and outside of the organization.
Institutionalization
When expansion occurs, cultural __ happens when the two joining forces have cultures with similar core values.
Cultural Alignment
When expansion occurs, cultural __ happens when the two joining forces have cultures with contradictary core values.
Cultural Gap
