Organizational Culture Is

question 38

Multiple Choice

Organizational culture is:

• A) the norms and value systems that are shared among the employees of an organization.
• B) the means through which a company assigns employees to specific tasks and roles and specifies how these tasks and roles are to be linked together to increase efficiency, quality, innovation, and responsiveness to customers.
• C) the process of deciding how a company should create, use, and combine organizational structure, control systems, and culture to pursue a business model successfully.
• D) the clear and unambiguous chain of command that defines each manager's relative authority from the CEO down through top, middle, to first-line managers.
• E) the principle that a company should design its hierarchy with the fewest levels of authority necessary to use organizational resources effectively.

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Definitions:

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