BUSMHR 3200 FINAL PAPER 3 2026
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Espoused Values.
Answer: explicitly stated values and norms that are preferred by an
organization (values you might list on a website)
●● Enacted Values.
Answer: values and norms that are actually exhibited or converted into
employee behavior (actual values accepted and put into place)
●● Basic Underlying Assumptions.
Answer: organizational values that have become so taken for granted
over time that they become assumptions that guide organizational
behavior
●● Four Functions of Organizational Culture.
Answer: organizational identity, collective commitment, social system
stability, sense-making device
●● Organizational Identity.
Answer: how the organization is seen
,●● Collective Commitment.
Answer: everyone together engaged in the cause of the organization
●● Social System Stability.
Answer: the way that communication is gone about
●● Sense-Making Device.
Answer: the function of culture that employees understand why the
employee does what it does, and will use their imagination if
communication is bad
●● Clan Culture.
Answer: a type of organizational culture with internally focus and value
flexibility rather than stability; effectiveness achieved by encouraging
collaboration, trust, and support; employee-focused
●● Adhocracy Culture.
Answer: a type of organizational culture with external focus and values
to flexibility, creation of new products and services, culture is adaptable,
creative, and fast to respond to the marketplace
●● Market Culture.
, Answer: a type of organizational culture with strong external focus and
value stability and control; competition, more rigid and stable, but still
outward focused, strong desire to deliver results and accomplish goals
●● Hierarchy Culture.
Answer: a type of organizational culture with internal focus, formalized
and structured work environment, values stability and control over
flexibility, efficiency, timeliness, and reliability
●● Organization Socialization.
Answer: the process by which a person learns the values, norms, and
required behaviors which permit them to participate as a member of an
organization
●● Three Phases of Organizational Socialization.
Answer: anticipatory socialization, encounter, change and acquisition
●● Anticipatory Socialization.
Answer: phase of organizational socialization that occurs before an
individual actually joins an organization; information learned about
careers and organizations through social media, internet, etc
●● Encounter.
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Espoused Values.
Answer: explicitly stated values and norms that are preferred by an
organization (values you might list on a website)
●● Enacted Values.
Answer: values and norms that are actually exhibited or converted into
employee behavior (actual values accepted and put into place)
●● Basic Underlying Assumptions.
Answer: organizational values that have become so taken for granted
over time that they become assumptions that guide organizational
behavior
●● Four Functions of Organizational Culture.
Answer: organizational identity, collective commitment, social system
stability, sense-making device
●● Organizational Identity.
Answer: how the organization is seen
,●● Collective Commitment.
Answer: everyone together engaged in the cause of the organization
●● Social System Stability.
Answer: the way that communication is gone about
●● Sense-Making Device.
Answer: the function of culture that employees understand why the
employee does what it does, and will use their imagination if
communication is bad
●● Clan Culture.
Answer: a type of organizational culture with internally focus and value
flexibility rather than stability; effectiveness achieved by encouraging
collaboration, trust, and support; employee-focused
●● Adhocracy Culture.
Answer: a type of organizational culture with external focus and values
to flexibility, creation of new products and services, culture is adaptable,
creative, and fast to respond to the marketplace
●● Market Culture.
, Answer: a type of organizational culture with strong external focus and
value stability and control; competition, more rigid and stable, but still
outward focused, strong desire to deliver results and accomplish goals
●● Hierarchy Culture.
Answer: a type of organizational culture with internal focus, formalized
and structured work environment, values stability and control over
flexibility, efficiency, timeliness, and reliability
●● Organization Socialization.
Answer: the process by which a person learns the values, norms, and
required behaviors which permit them to participate as a member of an
organization
●● Three Phases of Organizational Socialization.
Answer: anticipatory socialization, encounter, change and acquisition
●● Anticipatory Socialization.
Answer: phase of organizational socialization that occurs before an
individual actually joins an organization; information learned about
careers and organizations through social media, internet, etc
●● Encounter.
