Exam 8: Implementing Change: Change Management, Contingency and Processual Approaches

A main criticism of teaching intervention with the contingency approach is:

According to the text, which of the following is NOT a reason that the contingency approaches still remain less prevalent than the "one-best way" change management approaches.

Defenders of OD criticize change management for all of the following EXCEPT:

A main criticism of socializing intervention with the contingency approach is:

Contingency approaches are still underpinned by the Director image, but do not claim to have a "one best approach" for all types of organizational change.

According to Huy's contingency approach, ____ intervention is orientation toward a medium-term, relatively fast-change perspective and often assisted by work design analysts who assist in changing work and operational systems.

____ change theorists and practitioners take an "it depends" approach in which style of change, especially the style of leadership is dependent on the scale of the proposed change and the readiness of the staff to receive it.

According to the text, which of the following is NOT an argument that change management has supplanted rather than extended OD as a new field?

____ are those individuals who legitimate or sanction organizational changes.

Common to the various change management approaches is that they provide multi-step models of how to achieve large-scale, transformational change.

According to Pettigrew, while utilizing the Processual Approach, the ___ stage entails signaling and spreading throughout the organization, through discussion and decision-making, the legitimacy of certain problems as requiring attention.

The first step in Kotter's Eight-Step Change Management Model is to develop the vision for change.

The Processual Approach to viewing change is underpinned by the ____ image of managing change.

While drawing on a number of OD's techniques, change management is said to have supplanted rather than extended OD as a new field.

Which of the following is NOT a part of Ghoshal and Bartlett's interrelated transformational change phases?

According to Dunphy and Stace, ___ are situations in which there is constant change as a result of the organization adapting itself to external, environmental changes.

According to Nadler, which of the following is NOT one of the core elements that need to be managed during the transformation process involving discontinuous change?

Nadler depicts discontinuous change as being a continuous cycle rather than a linear process.

Processual approaches share an assumption with contingency theory in that both assume:

Which of the following is NOT one of Dawson's "lessons" of the processual approach?