Practice question · Multiple choice
A firm's stated value is 'fail fast, learn faster', and the last three people who ran failed experiments were quietly moved sideways. Which reading is right?
Hints
- Ask what a new employee actually infers after watching those three cases.
- Which carries more information: the poster or the promotion list?
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B. The espoused value is contradicted by the enacted one
Why
Culture is inferred from consequences, so the promotion list overrides the poster every time, and Schein's espoused/enacted split is exactly this gap. Publishing a value the organisation does not enforce is worse than publishing nothing, because it teaches that the stated values are decoration.
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