Which One of the Following Is a Substantive Culture-Changing Action

question 12

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following is a substantive culture-changing action that a company's managers can undertake to alter a problem culture?

• A) Identifying aspects of the present culture that pose problems.
• B) Revising policies and procedures in ways that will help drive cultural change and replacing senior executives who are strongly identified with the old culture and may be stonewalling needed changes.
• C) Empowering employees to adopt whatever new work practices they believe will be an improvement.
• D) Making a concerted effort to turn the company's core competencies into distinctive competencies.
• 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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Definitions:

Stability

The quality of being resistant to change and capable of maintaining a consistent state over time.

Extraversion

A personality trait characterized by outgoing, sociable, and energetic behavior.

Reciprocal Determinism

A concept in psychology proposed by Albert Bandura that suggests individual behavior and the environment mutually influence each other.

Trait Theory

A theory in psychology that posits personality is composed of a number of broad traits, or characteristic ways of behaving.