Exam 2: Images of Managing Change

The second stage of the Life-Cycle Theory is:

The traditional organization development change consultant acts as a ____ by helping to structure activities to help the organization members solve their own problems.

According to Population Ecology Theory, organizational variation can occur as a result of random change.

Power coercive strategies of change rely upon achieving intentional change by those with greater power gaining compliance in behavior from those with lesser power.

The ____ image to managing change assumes that even small changes may have a large impact on organizations and managers are not able to control the outcome of these changes.

In the ____ change outcomes image, the assumption is that managers often have great difficulty in achieving intentional change outcomes.

____ theory views organizations as passing through well-defined stages from birth to death.

The ____ view change as a cyclical, processional, journey oriented process based on maintaining equilibrium, observed and followed by involved people and normal rather than the exception.

The ____ strategies assume that people are rational and follow their own self-interest.

The internal forces that inhibit the ability of managers to implement desired change include all of the following, EXCEPT:

In the ____ change outcomes image, some, but not all, change intentions are achievable.

The ____ image to managing change places the change manager in the position of creating meaning for other organizational members, helping them to make sense of various organizational events and actions.

____ theory argues that change managers take similar actions across whole populations of organizations.

According to DiMaggio and Powell, which of the following is NOT one of the pressures associated with the interconnectedness of organizations within an industry or environment due to similarity in the actions of organizations?

____ is where changes occur through the professionalizing of work such that managers in different organizations utilize similar values and modes of operating in their actions and decisions.

Which of the following is NOT associated with the image of the manager being able to control change?

There has been less attention paid to the images of intended change outcomes literature than unintended change outcomes.

____ theory is based upon the notion that the environment selects organizations for survival or extinction, with whole populations of organizations changing as a result of ongoing cycles of variation.

In general, the implication of population ecology theory is that managers have little sway over change where whole populations of organizations are impacted upon by outside forces.

In the ____ image, the assumption is that change managers are able to intentionally shape the organization's capabilities in particular ways.