Exam 7: Implementing Change

Underpinned by the ___ image, the sense-making approach maintains that change emerges over time and consists of a series of interpretive activities that help to create in people new meanings about their organizations and about the ways in which they can operate differently in the future.

Which of the following is NOT encompassed in Positive Organizational Scholarship?

With respect to the evolution of organizational development (OD), developers such as Lewin, Collier and Likert and the development of action research was prominent in the:

Of the six images of managing change, the navigator and interpreter have their foundations in the field of organizational theory.

According to the text, which of the following is NOT a major organizational change experienced by Nova Scotia Power between 1982 and 2002?

According to the text, the largest town hall meeting ever was:

Central to the traditional OD approach is the role of the OD practitioner, who may be either internal or external to the organization.

According to the Sense-Making Framework, ____ is the notion that people make sense of their actions retrospectively.

According to Weick's common change assumptions of the Interpreter image, the best change sequence in the event of ineffectiveness in the system is:

One of the biggest challenges to the traditional OD field was the criticism that it was ill-suited to handle first-order, incremental organizational change.

According to Cummings and Worley, which of the following is NOT a skill needed by an OD practitioner?

According to Lewin, OD is linear in that it:

According to Kurt Lewin's three-stage model of how change occurs, ____ is establishing the need for change.

According to Fuller, Griffin and Ludema, which of the following is a benefit of appreciative inquiry:

What has been dubbed as a "new movement in organizational science" since emerging in the early 2000s?

According to the core values of the OD field, ____ values relate to authenticity, growth and self-realization.

Underpinned by the ____ image, the organizational development (OD) approach has dominated the organizational change field for over half of a century.

Which of the following is NOT one of Richard Beckhard's classic OD approach characteristics?

A criticism of OD theory is that there is not a comprehensive theory of change to assist researchers in knowing what to look for in what they study.

Which of the following is NOT a part if Kurt Lewin's three-stage model of how change occurs?