Corporate Culture and Economic Performance

Aims of the study	Methods / procedures	Findings	Conclusions
	Survey over 200 big US firms and calculate their culture-strength indices
to correlate the strength of the firms’ cultures with their economic performance over an 11-year period

			strong cultures had helped the high performers but had equally hindered the low performers

Task 3. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the word in italics:

1. Employ

1) In an area of high … people are desperate to find jobs.

2) Every … of the firm is entitled to a 10% discount.

3) Her … gets very angry if she uses the phone too much.

4) I’m looking for temporary … during the summer holidays.

2. Perform

1) The Walt Disney Company has been remarkable in its long-term …

2) High- … companies have flexible corporate cultures.

3) Our economy has … well over the past 5 years.

4) High … are those who are stable in showing excellent results.

3. Compete

1) Philips has managed to gain … advantage on the market of home appliances.

2) Companies face stiff … from their rivals for the market share.

3) … expand markets and find new uses and users for products, which enriches everyone in the field but mostly the market leader.

4. Research

1) Cambridge University has a worldwide reputation in the field of scientific … .

2) Pierre works in our department, he is one of ten … .

3) The effects of the factory environment on the workers have been … by a well-known industrial psychologist.

5. Success

1) Companies often … because their employees can act on the shared values of the organization.

2) The Japanese have … achieved their economic targets.

3) The meeting turned out to be … - we didn’t reach an agreement on the major points.

6. Analyze

1) By … their results in some detail, the professors were able to reach some interesting conclusions.

2) If you work in financial management, you probably need to have an … mind.

3) Investment … evaluate the investment merits of different stocks and shares.

4) Their … showed a number of interesting insights.

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