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c. employee empowerment.
d. employee autonomy.
Evidence suggests that
workplace spirituality
programs:
a. provide employees with an
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Acute Inc. hires a counselor to
mentor its employees and help
them achieve an enhanced
sense of self-worth that would
lead to greater personal
growth. In the given scenario,
Acute Inc. has conducted a(n):
a. simulation-based training.
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_____ includes the qualities of
forgiveness, compassion,
honesty, and appreciation,
which enables people to
experience a sense of
membership and feel
understood.
a. A cultural norm
b. Ethics
c. Internal integration
d. Altruistic love
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Listed below are four
scenarios pertaining to
different destructive emotions.
Drag and drop the options
below into the illustrated box
categorizing them into
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scenarios or concepts.
Answer Options: Sense of
failure/ Bradley is a team lead
at Torque Inc. He is arrogant
and conceited. He does not
SCENARIOS
DESTRUCTIV
E EMOTION
Media Quiz Questions
Topic
Category
Employees can create an
organization that is tough to
beat when:
a. it follows an organizational
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hierarchy.
b. it rewards employees’
creativity, experimentation,
and risk taking.
Corporate culture gives
employees:
a. a sense of organizational
identity.
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When people are successful
at what they undertake, the
ideas and values that led to
that success:
a. become institutionalized as
part of the organization’s
culture.
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Pre-Test Questions
Topic
Category
_____ can be defined as the
set of key values, assumptions,
understandings, and norms
that is shared by members of
an organization and taught to
new members as correct.
a. Culture
b. Power
c. Ceremony
d. Hierarchy
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_____ are shared standards
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that define what behaviors are
acceptable and desirable
within a group of people.
a. Artifacts
Which of the following is a
result of a strong corporate
culture?
a. It encourages risky behavior
in order to gain profits.
b. It encourages values that
may be unhealthy for an
organization.
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In a(n) _____ corporate
culture, leaders pay attention
to all stakeholders and initiate
change when needed to serve
the legitimate interests of
customers, employees,
partners, or others, even if it
entails taking some risks.
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When Cobalt Inc. acquired
Laser Corp., the top
management struggled to
combine the two distinct
cultures of the companies.
Cobalt Inc. had a responsive
culture, whereas Laser Corp.
had a resistant culture. In the
given scenario, the merger
was not successful due to:
a. a culture gap.
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d. internal integration.
Which of the following is the
correct outcome when the
degree of attention paid by
leaders to business
performance is high and the
degree of attention paid to
values is low?
a. Leaders do not meet
performance goals or uphold
cultural values.
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Leaders signal the cultural
values they want to instill in
an organization through:
a. their day to-day behavior.
b. written guidelines.
c. the rule of reciprocity.
d. their employee welfare
schemes.
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Every year, Kurtosis Inc.
presents awards to deserving
employees for performance
excellence. Which of the
following mechanisms does
the company use to enact
cultural values?
a. Ceremony
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Leaders use _____ that can be
easily picked up and repeated
by employees to express key
corporate values.
a. ceremony
b. physical artifacts
c. symbols
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d. slogans
A(n) _____ is characterized by
the values of cooperation,
consideration, agreement,
fairness, and social equality.
a. adaptability corporate
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Radium Corp. empowers its
employees to make important
decisions for the company.
Employees who contribute the
most creative and innovative
ideas for new product
development are handsomely
rewarded. In the given
scenario, which of the
following corporate cultures
does Radium Corp. illustrate?
a. Adaptability culture
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Gemini Inc. has established a
set of standards that act as a
guiding principle for its
business operations. Its
employees are required to
abide by these standards. If
any employee violates the
rules, it is considered morally
wrong. The guiding principle
established by Gemini Inc. is
referred to as its _____.
a. philosophy
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Employees at Siticare Inc. are
treated with respect. The top
management believes that
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treating people humanely is as
important as achieving
business goals. The leadership
at Siticare Inc. may be
described as:
a. Theory X leadership.
Which of the following is true
of spiritual leaders?
a. They reduce cultural
diversity at the workplace.
b. They pay careful attention
to both business performance
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Jeremiah is a marketing
associate at Horizon Inc. He is
selfish and self-conceited.
Whenever his co-workers
approach him for assistance,
he refuses to help them and
treats them with contempt.
Jeremiah is most likely
exhibiting the destructive
emotion of _____.
a. anxiety
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Post-Test Questions
Topic
Category
An office layout is an example
of an _____, the visible level
of corporate culture.
a. emblem
b. artifact
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Expressed values and beliefs,
the second level of corporate
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culture, _____.
a. consists of artifacts such as
patterns of behavior, symbols,
and organizational
ceremonies.
b. is a level that employees of
an organization are not
consciously aware of.
c. consists of things that one
A strong culture that does not
encourage _____ can be more
damaging to an organization
than a weak culture.
a. bureaucracy
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In a _____ corporate culture,
managers care mainly about
their own interests and the
products or technologies of
their immediate team or
department.
a. values-based
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In a responsive corporate
culture, _____.
a. leaders genuinely care about
customers, employees,
partners, and shareholders
b. managers meet their own
needs and distrust others
c. managers place a high value
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motivated
A(n) _____ corporate culture
encourages individual
employee ownership of both
bottom-line results and the
organization’s cultural
backbone.
a. ethics-oriented
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In the context of cultural
leadership, ceremonies:
a. are based on true events that
are repeated frequently and
shared among employees.
b. are objects, acts, or events
that convey meaning to others.
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When people are effectively
_____ in an organization, they
“fit in” because they
understand and adopt the
norms and values of the group.
a. engaged
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Justin is the CEO of Nexon
Inc. He works in an open
office and encourages his
employees to approach his
desk any time of day. Justin
incorporates a culture of
openness, respect, and
equality in the company
through:
a. his interviews.
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The correct relationship
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among cultural values,
organizational strategy, and
the external environment can:
a. enhance organizational
The values of economy,
formality, rationality, order,
and obedience are the
characteristics of a(n):
a. resistant corporate culture.
b. consistency corporate
culture.
c. achievement corporate
culture.
d. involvement corporate
culture.
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Kurtosis Inc. places great
value on meeting its sales
targets. It aims at increasing
its market share by
diversification. It introduces
new and innovative products
in its product line every year
to increase its customer base.
Employees at Kurtosis are
highly competitive and willing
to work long hours to
accomplish the desired results.
In this regard, it can be said
that Kurtosis is characterized
by a(n):
a. adaptability corporate
culture.
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Jack is a manager at Sapphire
Inc. He usually accepts bribes
from Raymond in exchange
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for business favors. Jack is
most likely violating the
_____ of his company.
a. ethical code
b. ceremony
c. specialized language
d. symbol
Whirlwind Media Inc.
recognizes and rewards its
employees for their
contribution toward the
success of the organization.
The company believes in fair
and equal treatment of its
employees due to which there
are fewer instances of
absenteeism and turnover in
the company. In the given
scenario, Whirlwind Media
Inc. is said to be practicing:
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Topaz Inc. has hired the local
clergyman to help its
employees as they struggle
with problems that may or
may not be related to business.
Employees who attended the
workshop conducted by the
clergyman reported better
mental and physical health
than before. In the given
scenario, Topaz Inc. is said to
be conducting a(n):
a. simulation-based training.
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Self-Assessment Questions
Topic
Category
While making important
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business decisions, leaders in
an adaptability corporate
culture consider using:
a. only the key facts.
b. accurate and complete data.
When faced with challenges,
leaders in a consistency
corporate culture:
a. apply careful analysis to
solve a problem.
b. rely on proven approaches
to problem solving.
c. look for creative approaches
to problem solving.
d. build consensus in order to
solve a problem.
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Which of the following is a
characteristic of leaders of an
involvement corporate
culture?
a. Energetic and ambitious
b. Polite and formal
c. Open-minded
d. Agreeable and self-
confident
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Leaders in an achievement
corporate culture can be best
described as being:
a. realistic.
b. systematic.
c. flexible.
d. sensitive to the need of
others.
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A(n) _____ corporate culture
is receptive to brainstorming
and recognizes innovations.
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Which of the following
indicates that a person is
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highly spiritual and is likely to
become a spiritual or values-
based leader?
a. He or she gives priority to
performance rather than
seniority when it comes to job
promotions.
b. He or she encourages
people to work long and hard
to achieve goals.
c. He or she instills an
A leader who incorporates
spiritual values as part of a
corporate culture:
a. instills a strong sense of
competitiveness in his or her
employees.
b. inculcates a strong sense of
unity among his or her
employees.
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Which of the following
statements is true of spiritual
leadership?
a. Spiritual leadership is
another term for
transformational leadership.
b. Spiritual leaders motivate
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In a responsive culture, _____.
a. employees feel free to make
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recommendations to
management to change
existing practices
b. management does not
expect the employees to
challenge or change the status
quo.
In a responsive culture,
management:
a. highly values the orderly
and risk-reducing
administration system.
b. is solely concerned with its
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In a responsive culture, when
employees make suggestions
to management, they:
a. are instantly implemented.
b. receive fair evaluation.
c. are assessed with
reluctance.
d. are rejected without
consideration.
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Which of the following
statements is true of working
in a responsive culture?
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