Culture: Hierarchical vs Egalitarian

Question 1

Boss expects employee to disagree if they believe that there is a problem with the approach

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 2

Boss gives detailed instructions to employee on how to do every task

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 3

Focus efforts on determining who created the problem

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 4

Follow successful business leaders

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 5

Refer to personal history

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 6

Employees are obedient

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 7

Focus on problem solving is to prevent problem from reoccurring

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 8

Employees provide infrequent updates (weekly)

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 9

Supervisor provides background of the problem and desired result in detail

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 10

Keep emails to protect personal interests

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 11

Refer to titles & positions in conversations

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 12

Employee determines daily priorities

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 13

Quote famous people & books

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 14

Employee is expected to suggest better ways to accomplish the task

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 15

Supervisor gives employee daily priorities

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 16

Employees make decisions without consulting manager

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 17

Employees ask questions until understand all the steps to do the task

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 18

Employees prefer closed ended assignments

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 19

Promote the idea that makes most sense to them

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 20

Concerned about who created the problem so can assign blame

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 21

Employees prefer general instructions and the freedom to use own approach

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 22

Promote the ideas of their boss

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 23

Employees ask manager to make decisions

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 24

Create an email with distribution list in decreasing order of hierarchy

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 25

Boss expects employee to decide how to do every task based on clear definition of the result required

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 26

Employees prefer open ended assignments

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 27

Keep emails that can help with future projects

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 28

Employees prefer detailed instructions to follow precisely to do task

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 29

Employees stop asking questions once understand the desired result

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 30

Quote senior people in the organization & follow their example

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 31

Create an email with distribution list alphabetically

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 32

Only the supervisor understands the background and the result required

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 33

Employees are empowered

Accepted Answer

Egalitarian

Question 34

Supervisor determines, in detail, how to do every task assigned

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 35

Employees provide frequent updates (multiple times per day)

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Question 36

Employee never disagrees with the way to do the job

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical

Culture: Hierarchical vs Egalitarian

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Culture: Hierarchical vs Egalitarian

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