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Question 1 Linda was nominated by her manager to participate in an exclusive women's development programme at her work. In a workshop on 'Building Your Leadership Potential', the presenter said women tend to lack the assertiveness, confidence and competitiveness necessary for leadership. Linda began to notice how leaders are so often expected to be assertive, confident and competitive in Australian culture. Linda's thinking is an example of:

A. Seeing the strange in the familiar

B. Seeing interlocking systems of power

C. Seeing the general in the particular

Question 2

Linda could not stop thinking about that leadership workshop for the rest of the week. She started noticing that almost all the senior managers in her company are loud, decisive and self-assured, even though no one at the company has ever explicitly said that employees should behave in this way. Which aspect/s of the organisational culture is Linda observing?

A. Artefacts and values

B. Artefacts

C. Artefacts and basic assumptions

Question 3

Linda also questioned why she, a 28-year-old woman, was nominated to participate in this development programme when her colleague Carol, who is in her fifties, was not. When Linda asks, her manager replies, "You're the future of our company!" Her manager's assumptions exemplify which vampiric characteristic?

A. Neophilia

B. Regeneration

C. Organisational (un)dying