Author Question: Explain how organizational culture facilitates personal and team interactions that are necessary to ... (Read 64 times)

brutforce · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

Explain how organizational culture facilitates personal and team interactions that are necessary to develop organizational competences and obtain a competitive advantage.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

________ is a cognitive bias that leads managers to continue a losing course of action and to refuse to admit they have made a mistake.

A) Escalation of commitment
B) Self-concordance
C) Frequency
D) Representativeness

Andromeda18 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

There are many ways in which culture can inspire and facilitate the intense kind of personal and team interactions that are necessary to develop organizational competences and obtain a competitive advantage.

Cultural values are important facilitators of mutual adjustment in an organization. When shared cultural values provide a common reference point, employees do not need to spend much time establishing rapport and overcoming differences in their perceptions of events. Cultural values can smooth interactions among organizational members. People who share an organization's values may come to identify strongly with the organization, and feelings of self-worth may flow from their membership in it.

Also, organizational culture is a form of informal organization that facilitates the workings of the organizational structure. It is an important determinant of the way employees view their tasks and roles. It tells them, for example, if they should stay within established rules and procedures and simply obey orders or whether they are allowed to make suggestions to their superiors, find better or more creative ways of performing their roles, and feel free to demonstrate their competency without fear of reprisal from their peers or superiors.

Answer to Question 2

A