Exam 11: Organization Process Approaches

When the interdependence between conflicting groups is low and predictable, behavioral interventions work best.

The confrontation meeting intervention is a promising approach for mobilizing organization problem solving, particularly during highly effective organization performance.

Open-systems methods for the large-group meeting begin with a

Which of the following should be avoided in a confrontation meeting?

Successful large-group interventions require:

System wide process interventions include which of the following:

Describe the key success requirements for a microcosm group intervention.

Discuss the similarities and differences between an organization confrontation meeting and an intergroup conflict resolution intervention.

Compare and contrast the open-systems and open-space methods for large-group interventions.

The activity "appreciating the past" is a characteristic of the open-space method for a large-group meeting.

Behavioral interventions help groups change their attitudes about one another.

Open-space methods for large-group interventions are highly structured processes.

From the choices below, which best describes the focus of a confrontation meeting?

Identifying the core mission of an organization and assessing the organization's responses to environmental expectations are two important aspects of what type of large group intervention:

Microcosm groups are small, representative groups who can solve problems in the group and recommend actions to address the problem in the larger system.

Which of the following best describes how a microcosm group intervention succeeds?

Which of the following is not a dilemma associated with large group interventions that help determine the best method to use in conducting the large group intervention?

What kind of group uses members from several other groups to help solve organization wide problems?

Intergroup relations interventions are necessary whenever there is conflict between two or more groups.

Describe the organizational situations that support each of the three types of systemwide process interventions, the organization confrontation meeting, the intergroup relations intervention, and the large-group intervention.