Organizational Stories Are Most Effective at Communicating Organizational Culture

question 46

Multiple Choice

Organizational stories are most effective at communicating organizational culture:

• A)never;organizational stories always overinflate the organization's true culture.
• B)only when they are told by senior executives to the public.
• C)when they describe real people,are assumed to be true,and are known by employees throughout the organizations.
• D)when they are true and descriptive rather than prescriptive.
• E)when they are known by all stakeholders.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Stimulus

A neutral stimulus that, after pairing with an unconditioned stimulus, ultimately results in a conditioned response.

Biological Constraints

Limitations on learning and behavior that are rooted in biological factors or innate predispositions.

Cognitive Maps

Cognitive maps that allow people to navigate and comprehend their surrounding space.

Classical Conditioning

A training routine where two stimuli are continuously associated; the reaction, at outset evoked by the second stimulus, ultimately becomes evoked by the first stimulus solely.