NCOA DLC 2.0 - Culture Test (Test 2) Latest Update

Commitment is - ANSWER The price you are willing to pay to get remarkable results Performance reveals - ANSWER The price you have paid. Four insights of a passionate performer - ANSWER 1. Know your audience inside and out. Understand what they consider to be remarkable. 2. Know how to perform remarkably. Innovate, create and change the way things are done. 3. Know why they perform. Passionate people are driven by more powerful motives: sense of self worth, self satisfaction and self fulfillment. 4. Know what their performance needs to look like. Understand their goals and objectives and focus on meeting them. The antidote to __________________ is humility - ANSWER Arrogance ________________ is when we feel "acceptable" is good enough. The antidote is commitment. - ANSWER Complacency The antidote to _____________________ is to get work done. - ANSWER Lethargy/procrastination Fear is caused by threats both real and imagined, it can be immobilizing. The antidote to fear is ______________. - ANSWER Confidence Apathetic people tell others they don't care. The antidote is ___________________________________. - ANSWER Patience and/or persistence Culture - ANSWER Implicit in social life. Naturally emerges as individuals transform into social groups (tribes, communities, nations). Three levels of culture are: - ANSWER - behavior and artifacts: consists of behavior patterns and outward manifests of culture. - values: underlie and determine behavior - assumptions + beliefs: deepest level - underlying assumptions grow out of values until they become taken for granted and drop out of awareness Organizational values - ANSWER Express preferences for certain behaviors or certain outcomes. Organizational norms - ANSWER Express behaviors accepted by others. Values and norms - ANSWER Once transmitted through the organization, establish the performance of the organization's culture. rite - ANSWER Elaborate, dramatic, planned sets of activities that consolidated various forms of cultural expressions into one event, carried out through social interactions, usually for an audience. ceremonial - ANSWER a system of several rites connected with a single occasion or event ritual - ANSWER A standardized detailed set of techniques and behaviors that manage anxieties but seldom produce intended, technical consequences of practical importance. myth - ANSWER Dramatic narrative of imagined events usually used to explain origins of transformations of something. saga - ANSWER A historical narrative describing the unique accomplishments of a group and its leaders- usually heroic terms. legend - ANSWER a narrative handed down from the past, containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements story - ANSWER narrative based on true events, which is repeated - and sometimes a combo of truth and fiction Folktale - ANSWER A fictional narrative Symbol - ANSWER Any object, act, event, quality, or relation thar serves as a vehicle for conveying meaning, usually by representing another thing. language - ANSWER A particular form or manner in which members of a group use vocal sounds and written songs to communicate meanings to each other gesture - ANSWER a movement of part of the body, especially a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning. Physical - ANSWER The things that surround people in a physically setting and provide them with immediate sensory stimuli as they carry out culturally expressive activities artifact - ANSWER Material objects manufactured by people to facilitate culturally expressive activities