Strategy Process Content Context 4th Edition By de Wit Bob – Test Bank

Strategy Process Content Context 4th Edition By de Wit Bob – Test Bank

Chapter 4: Culture and Strategy

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1.To a great extent the culture of an organization is dictated by its strategic leader.

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2.An organizational culture can be quite easily changed to reflect a strategic change.

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3. Organizational culture refers to the core values shared by the firm’s top-level managers, but not necessarily accepted by lower-level employees who are often transitory and not committed to the organization.

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4.The culture of an organization is related to its people, their behavior and the operation of the structure.

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5.A culture of internal cooperation and customer orientation, together with a willingness to learn, adapt and change is ideal for an organization to experience strategic success.

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6.Although organizational cultures vary considerably, one cannot make an objective judgment that some organizational cultures are more or less functional than others.

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7. Cultural change requires all staff to change their fundamental beliefs, customs, and values.

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8. Culture is closely associated with power and can be such a strong force that overlooked, strategy implementation may not happen.

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9. An organizational culture is constituted by a shared belief system that is emotionally charged as it encompasses the values and norms of its members and offers them an interpretive filter through which they make sense of what is around them.

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10. As organizational cultures become stronger and more ingrained they open out the possibility for multiple interpretations to flourish.

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