MGT/312 Unit 1 Quiz — Culture and Leadership Foundations

A manager notes that Sweden scores low on power distance and concludes that a specific Swedish direct report will certainly be comfortable challenging them in a meeting. This inference is flawed because it commits the:

In Schein's model, an organization's written mission statement declaring 'we value open dissent' while employees stay silent in meetings represents a gap between:

A researcher administers a U.S.-developed leadership questionnaire, translated but otherwise unchanged, in rural Indonesia and reports that Indonesian leaders score low on 'initiative.' The most serious methodological concern is:

Which statements accurately distinguish a cultural generalization from a stereotype? (Select all that apply.)

Research consistently finds that within-country cultural variation often exceeds between-country variation. The main managerial implication is that:

Explain Schein's three levels of culture and give one original example of how misreading an artifact through home-culture assumptions could lead a manager to a wrong conclusion.

Compare etic and emic approaches to studying culture. Identify one genuine strength and one genuine limitation of each, and explain why the field needs both.