The Competing Values Approach Suggests That an Organisation's Culture

question 8

Multiple Choice

The competing values approach suggests that an organisation's culture:

• A)can only be understood at a deep assumptions level
• B)is the least useful element of a diagnosis
• C)is a pattern of activities that produce business results
• D)presents significant risks when changes needed in implementing a new strategy are in competition with the existing patterns of behaviour
• E)can be understood in terms of two important and contradictory 'value pairs'

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A training method in which two signals are consistently associated, leading to a situation where a reaction initially triggered by the second signal is ultimately induced by just the first signal.

Organizational Behavior Modification

A method of applying principles of behavioral psychology to change individual or group behaviors within an organization.

Financial Reinforcement

Using monetary rewards or penalties to influence behavior in an organization or system.

Nonfinancial Reinforcement

Motivational strategies that do not involve monetary rewards but rather recognition, feedback, and opportunities for growth.