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You are the HR Professional within your organization, and you're working with the management to address the organizational culture. You explain to the management the four dimensions of…

The correct answer is B. Joy. Deal and Kennedy's four dimensions of organizational culture are Values, Heroes, Rites and Rituals, and Cultural Network. 'Joy' is not part of this framework.

Organizational Development

Question

You are the HR Professional within your organization, and you're working with the management to address the organizational culture. You explain to the management the four dimensions of organizational culture - as addressed by Deal and Kennedy. Which one of the following is not one of the four dimensions of organizational culture?

Options

  • AHeroes
  • BJoy
  • CValues
  • DRites and Rituals

How the community answered

(53 responses)
  • A
    6% (3)
  • B
    75% (40)
  • C
    15% (8)
  • D
    4% (2)

Why each option

Deal and Kennedy's four dimensions of organizational culture are Values, Heroes, Rites and Rituals, and Cultural Network. 'Joy' is not part of this framework.

AHeroes

Heroes are one of the four dimensions, representing individuals who personify organizational values and serve as living role models that reinforce the culture.

BJoyCorrect

Joy does not appear in Deal and Kennedy's organizational culture framework, which was defined in their 1982 work 'Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life.' The four actual dimensions - Values, Heroes, Rites and Rituals, and Cultural Network - each describe a specific mechanism through which culture is formed, expressed, and transmitted within an organization.

CValues

Values are one of the four dimensions and form the core of the model, representing the fundamental beliefs and concepts that define what the organization stands for.

DRites and Rituals

Rites and Rituals are one of the four dimensions, representing the systematic, programmed routines and ceremonies that reinforce and communicate cultural values.

Concept tested: Deal and Kennedy four dimensions of organizational culture

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#organizational culture#Deal and Kennedy#culture dimensions

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