The Menu of Actions Management Can Take to Change Problem

question 86

Multiple Choice

The menu of actions management can take to change problem culture does not include which one of the following?

• A) Making a compelling case for why the company's new strategic direction and culture-remodeling efforts are in the organization's best interests and why company personnel should wholeheartedly join the effort to doing things somewhat differently.
• B) Replacing senior executives who are strongly identified with the old culture and who may be stonewalling needed organizational and cultural changes.
• C) Promoting individuals who are known to possess the desired cultural traits, who have stepped forward to advocate the shift to a different culture, and who can serve as role models for the desired cultural behavior.
• D) Revising policies and procedures in ways that will help drive cultural change.
• E) Shifting from decentralized to centralized decision-making so as to give senior executives more authority and control in driving cultural change.

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