Organizational culture

Question 1

What is organizational structure?

Answer 1

A system of shared meaning held by mebers that distinguishes the organization from others

Question 2

Name the seven cultures

Answer 2

Innovation and risk taking
attention to detail
Outcomes erientation
people orientation
team orientation
Agressiveness
Stability

Question 3

Is culture a discriptive term?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

What is a dominant culture?

Answer 4

Culture that expresses the core values of an organization

Question 5

What is a strong culture?

Answer 5

a widely spread culture

has a greater influence on members, high behavioural control

Question 6

What four things do cultures do?

Answer 6

Boundary defining
identity
Enhances stability
Sense making and control mechanism that guides empoyees

Question 7

A strong culture supported by forrules and egulations ensures

Answer 7

empoyees will a predictable manner

Question 8

Why are cultures more important than ever?

Answer 8

due to decentralisation

Question 9

How does strong leadership forster a strong culture?

Answer 9

by communicating goals often

Question 10

How does induvidual organization fit lead to culture?

Answer 10

Because it diffines who will be selected/promoted

Question 11

What is organizational climate?

Answer 11

Shared perceptions organizational members have about their organization and work space
Is related to job satisfaction, involvement, commitment and motivation. A positive one leads to higher costumer satis. and financial performance
Climate can increase/decrease behaviours, think of diversity etc

Question 12

EWC ethical work climate

Answer 12

shared concept of right or wrong, reflects the true values of an organization
explains mindset and expectations and will influence behaviour and how people feel they should behave

Question 13

What is sustainability?

Answer 13

Practises that can be maintained over a long period of time.
is increasingly more important lately
Long term culture and put values into practise
Is inforced by talking about it or hiring

Question 14

Innovative culutre is forstered by:

Answer 14

openness and uncontroversial collaborative vision driven etc.
it needs the right culture and actions to inforce itself, think of inforcing openness, working weird hours

Question 15

Does culture have dysfunctionalities?

Answer 15

Yes especially strong cultures: can lead to polarization and lack of motivation
Institutionalization: culture itself is important, overly reinforced no change
Barriers to change
Barriers to diversity: newcomers must fit in so start to addapt to the culture, or hired to fit in. strong culture supports biases
Strenghtening dysfunctionality: strong negative culture increases turnover and decreases job satisfaction

Question 16

What does culture mean for mergers?

Answer 16

It predicts the succes of the merger

Question 17

How does a founder create culture?

Answer 17

They hire and keep only employees who think the same way
Indoctronate employees with thinking the same way
Their behaviour encourages empoyees to think and act the same way

Question 18

How is culture kept alive?

Answer 18

Selection: we pick simular people or people tell they don’t want to join the organization
Top management: they astablisch norms by words and actions
Socialization: people grow familiar with the culture and actions are taken so that they do so

Question 19

What are the three stages of socialization?

Answer 19

Prearrival stage: Period he learns before he arrives to the organization. school etc
Encounter stage: stage in socialization where employee arrives, here he sees what the organization is really like, might even resign
Meamorphis stage: new members change

Question 20

Management relies on, formal, collective, fixed and serial socialization what will happen?

Answer 20

Newcomers differences will be stripped away

Question 21

Management relies on informat, individuel variable and random what will happen

Answer 21

creativity and innovativety is stimulated

Question 22

How do employees learn culture?

Answer 22

Stories: told by management to show early culture
Rituals: sequences of activities that express and reinforce key values, which goals and people are important
Material symbols: show who is important and what behaviour is important, think of limo’s, but also economic flights
Language

Question 23

How does management create an ethical culture?

Answer 23

Be a visible rolemodel
Communicate ethical expectations
Provide ethical training
Visibly reward ethical acts and punnish none ethical ones
provide protective mechanisms: people should be able to fight unethical things without fear

Question 24

Why is ethical climate so important?

Answer 24

It creates ethical leadership, this transfers down to employees
Right culture leads to ethical behaviour
Empoyees with same ethical values are likely to be promoted

Question 25

What is positive organizational culture?

Answer 25

a culture that emphasized building on empoyees strenght and not punish bad ones

Question 26

What does positive culture creates?

Answer 26

It builds employee strengths

Encourages vitality and growth

Question 27

What is a spiritual culture?

Answer 27

The recognition that people have an inner life that is supported by meaningful work
can counterbalance stress people want to integrate personal lives values

Question 28

What are spiritual cultures charactaristics?

Answer 28

benevolence: kindness to others
Strong sense of purpose
Trust and respect
open mindedness

Question 29

How to trigger spritual cultures?

Answer 29

Trigger intrinsic rewards, demonstrate values, attitudes and behaviors, encourage to find a purpose. counseling