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penguins

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You are considering applying to the Delphi Corp, but you want to be a good cultural fit with the organization. You scour their website and conclude they are a formal professional organization with high expectations.
 
  You don't want to work in such a high pressure uptight organization, so you decide to continue your job hunt. How were you able to draw conclusions about Delphi's culture?
  A) Studying their espoused values
  B) Skyping with the HR manager
  C) Examining artifacts on their website
  D) Applying the iceberg metaphor for studying their culture

Question 2

What do the members of Alpha Inc.'s professional subculture have in common?
 
  A) They work in desk based rather than field based jobs
  B) They are all engineers
  C) They have the financial success of Alpha as a primary focus
  D) They are Alpha's dominant subculture



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Answer to Question 1

C
Explanation: C) By analyzing Delphi's website, you would have been able to draw the conclusions you did about culture. You could look at the design of the website itself and look for artifacts in pictures of the workplace. But, just because you looked at their website and drew these conclusions doesn't mean you are rightthe information included on the website has been carefully crafted and does not necessarily represent the culture as it operates.

Answer to Question 2

Awesome job my friend



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