Exam 6: Managing Change: Innovation and Diversity

Does an organization you work for or have worked for have any of the six characteristics of innovative cultures? Overall,does the organization have a creative culture?

List the reasons employees resist change,and suggest ways of overcoming such resistance.

Explain intrapreneurship and identify its three roles.

What are the two forms of change?

For the following question(s), identify the statement by its specific source and focus. -Resistance to Change.An employee says,"You are not my boss.What you say is not important to me.I'm not going to do the task your way."

Sandi is determined to have an innovative organization and has issued an order to all department heads that they will develop some improvement each month and one that will work.Anyone who fails to innovate or who comes up with a change that does not pay off will be fired.Sam empowers his workers to find innovations and rewards them when they do,but no one is punished if some of their changes do not work.Compared to Sandi,Sam's organization is more likely to be a(n):

Do you believe that it is acceptable for people who work together to date each other?

Give an example of an innovation from an organization you work or have worked for.Be sure to specify whether it was a product innovation or a process innovation.

State the difference between a fact,a belief,and a value.

As a manager of change,you must anticipate whether resistance will be strong,weak,or somewhere in between.

Which stage of the change process is the most difficult to overcome?

In situations involving technology changes,the most efficient OD intervention is:

Do you consider yourself to be a creative and innovative person? Why or why not?

An improvement in information processing exemplifies a change in __________.

The __________ often lacks the skill to transform an idea into an innovation.

The four types of change are changes in strategy,in structure,in technology,and in people.

Do you believe that organizational change today is more incremental or radical?

Don wants to increase output but the labor market is such that he cannot find more workers.Furthermore,he knows of no way to increase the productivity of current workers,no matter how motivated they might be.Probably one of the first changes he should consider involves __________.

State the difference in the use of forcefield analysis and survey feedback.

The change agent is the person selected by top management to be responsible for the OD program.