COMM200 Fishbowl

Effective organizational communication is essential for the success of any organization because it does all of the following except

• enables the sharing of knowledge and expertise

• focuses on promoting individuals personal life

• promotes collaboration

• helps to establish a common understanding of goals and objectives

True or False: organizational communication is not an important aspect of any organization and can’t really have a significant impact on its success. 

• True

• False

Which of the following is not a type of cultural performance?

• Ritual

• Passion

• Politics

• Morality

What type of cultural performance is the way organizations mark events and the people within the organization gain experience from these events?

• Ritual

• Passion

• Enculturation

• Politics

What type of cultural performance can be summarized as the stories passed on within the workplace that share the culture and ultimately reinforce the purpose behind routin activities at work?

• Ritual

• Passion

• Politics

• Enculturation

What are examples of rituals?

• Workplace "Happy Hour"

• The Lunk Alarm

• Employee of the Month Award

• All of the options

A complaint from an employee flowing to the shift lead, to the store manager, to corporate is an example to which approach to organizational culture?

• Traditional Approach

• Cultural Apprach

After being in your first restaurant job for a few months, you finally start to understand the abbreviated communication used by the servers to communicate to each other. 

This is an example of which approach to organizational culture?

• Traditional Approach

• Cultural Approach

Organizational Culture is what type of theory?

• Laws-based

• Rules-based

• Interpretive-based

• Broad based

Which of the following is an outcome of ineffective organizational culture?

• Low Profits

• Disengaged employees

• High turnover

• All of the options