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$29.$ Following items are the statements about organizational culture. Please select the statement that is FALSE:

a$.$ Organizational culture refers to the shared knowledge within an organization regarding the rules, norms, and values that shape the attitudes and behaviors of its employees.

b$.$ Organizational culture is learned from other employees.

c$.$ Organizational culture is often manifested by the organization's ceremony, award, and symbol.

d$.$ Organizational culture formally dictates how job and tasks are divided and coordinated.

$30.$ Following items are the statements about conflict resolution. Please select the statement that is FALSE:

a$.$ Avoiding style takes low assertiveness and low cooperation.

b$.$ Collaborating style takes low assertiveness and high cooperation.

c$.$ Competing style takes high assertiveness and low cooperation.

d$.$ Compromising style takes moderate assertiveness and moderate cooperation.

$31.$ Across $8$ steps of organizational transformation process suggested by John Kotter, what is the last step to the change in organizational culture?:

a$.$ Establishing a sense of urgency

b$.$ Empowering employees for broad$-$based action

c$.$ Creating the guiding coalition

d$.$ Anchoring new approaches in the culture

$32.$ Following items are the statements about four dimensions of transformational leadership. Please select the statement that is FALSE:

a$.$ Idealized influence refers to displaying behaviors that earn the admiration, trust, and respect of followers and causing followers to want to emulate the leader as a role model.

b$.$ Inspiration motivation refers to displaying behaviors that foster an enthusiasm for and commitment to shared vision.

c$.$ Intellectual stimulation refers to actively providing rewards and punishment based on followers' creative performance.

d$.$ Individualized consideration refers to displaying behaviors that help followers achieve their potential through mentoring.

$33.$ To measure person$-$organization fit, we can directly ask employees to evaluate the extent to which they agree with the three statements below. How do we call this method of measuring person$-$organization fit?

My values fit with my organization's culture.

My organization and I are a match in terms of our values.

The things that are important to me are also important to my organization::

a$.$ Subjective person$-$organization fit

b$.$ Objective person$-$organization fit

c$.$ Perceived person$-$organization fit

d$.$ Cognitive person$-$organization fit

Following items are the statements about power. Please select the statement that is FALSE:

a$.$ Legitimate power, reward power, and coercive power are categorized as organizational power.

b$.$ Reward power stems from one's control of resources and benefits.

c$.$ Referent power stems from one's position of authority.

d$.$ Expert power stems from one's expertise, skill, or knowledge.

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