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Nikki Williams was working as the sales manager for Industrial Instruments. Some of the sales executives were showing signs of burnout. They were losing interest in their jobs and were no longer motivated to gain new accounts. The reward system focused on old reliable accounts, but Nikki was now under pressure to expand the customer base. Nikki had recently been to a seminar on corporate value systems. She recognized that the company's CEO wanted to change the way employees thought about the firm and the way they related to one another. She further recognized that a lasting solution to her problem required a fundamental shift in perception.
-Industrial Instruments operates in an environment that requires fast response and high-risk decision making. Which type of culture may be appropriate here?

Definitions:

Cell Damage

Physical or functional changes in cells that impair their health, often leading to diseases or aging.

Primary Control

An effort to modify reality by changing other people, the situation, or events; a “fighting back” philosophy.

Tolerate

Allowing or enduring something, typically something that one does not necessarily like or agree with.

Pessimistic Explanatory Styles

A cognitive approach where individuals habitually interpret situations in a negative light, expecting unfavorable outcomes.