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Which aspect of culture includes the unique stories, ceremonies, and corporate rituals that make up the history of the firm or a group within the firm?

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The second level of cultural analysis focuses on common cultural assumptions that are the taken-for-granted truths that collections of corporate members share as a result of their joint experiences.

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An organization with a "strong culture" possesses a broadly and deeply shared value system that can provide a strong corporate identity, enhance collective commitment, provide a stable social system, and reduce the need for formal and bureaucratic controls.

A counterculture is a group of individuals with a unique pattern of values and philosophy that is consistent with the organization's dominant values and philosophy.

Generating an idea through spontaneous creativity, ingenuity, and information processing is the feasibility determination step of the innovation process.

Which of the following are concerned with the conditions within the organization that are expected to increase the organization's survival?

The presumption of administrative competence is a common myth in organizations.

What defines the type of business an organization is in?

Research finds that the process of managing organization culture is not very complex or challenging to managers since it is so deeply rooted in employees.

To begin understanding an organization's culture, it is often easiest to start with which of the following?

__________ are parts of the normative controls of the organization and emerge from its daily routines.

Subcultures often arise from the type of technology deployed by the units, the specific function being performed, and the specific collection of specialists in the unit.

A cultural artifact is any object, act, or event that serves to transmit cultural meaning.

Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding subcultures?

An__________ is any object, act, or event that serves to transmit cultural meaning.

The multicultural organization is a firm that values diversity but systematically works to block the transfer of societally based subcultures into the fabric of the organization.

Which of the following define the type of business an organization is in?

Briefly discuss how managers build, reinforce, and change culture.

Every large organization imports potentially important subcultural groupings when it hires employees from the smaller society.

Three important levels of cultural analysis in organizations are: observable culture, implicit culture, and uncommon cultural assumptions.