Exam 15: Organizational Change Additional Cases

What key principle of appreciative inquiry states that organizations are open books,so we have choices in how they may be perceived,framed and described?

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Question 101

Pilot projects are usually more flexible and less risky than centralized,organization-wide programs.

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Question 102

A minimalist communication strategy should always be used to facilitate organizational change,because it minimizes the potential for misunderstandings.

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Question 103

Which of these conditions tends to aid the diffusion of change to other parts of the organization?

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Question 104

Quantum change is most commonly applied in conjunction with employee involvement.

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Question 105

Which organizational change intervention is best known for its problem-solving approach to change?

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Question 106

Communication should be applied to reduce resistance to change where the change must occur quickly with little financial cost.

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Question 107

In organizational change,employee involvement should be used:

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Question 108

What are some of the ethical issues associated with organizational change practices that are discussed in your text?

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Question 109

The textbook suggests that resistance to change represents:

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Question 110

Organizational change is more successful if the change agent prevents its diffusion from one part of the organization to other parts.

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Question 111

According to the force field analysis model,what is the best strategy to move the status quo to a desired state?

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Question 112

Senior executives at a large retail organization want employees to become more customer-friendly.Employees think they are serving customers well enough and the company is the dominant player in the market.What should the executives do in this situation?

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Question 113

Increasing the restraining forces and reducing the driving forces tends to:

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Question 114

In Lewin's force field analysis model,refreezing involves producing a disequilibrium between the current and unfrozen state.

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Question 115

Which change management practice encourages employee involvement?

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Question 116

Change agents should apply the action research model if they want to help people to break out of a problem-solving mentality and,instead,reframe relationships around the positive and possible.

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Question 117

Which of the following helps to refreeze the desired change?

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Question 118

Action research takes the view that organizational change is all about bringing about real change,not testing theory.

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Question 119

Unfreezing refers to:

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What key principle of appreciative inquiry states that organizations are open books,so we have choices in how they may be perceived,framed and described?

Pilot projects are usually more flexible and less risky than centralized,organization-wide programs.

A minimalist communication strategy should always be used to facilitate organizational change,because it minimizes the potential for misunderstandings.

Which of these conditions tends to aid the diffusion of change to other parts of the organization?

Quantum change is most commonly applied in conjunction with employee involvement.

Which organizational change intervention is best known for its problem-solving approach to change?

Communication should be applied to reduce resistance to change where the change must occur quickly with little financial cost.

In organizational change,employee involvement should be used:

What are some of the ethical issues associated with organizational change practices that are discussed in your text?

The textbook suggests that resistance to change represents:

Organizational change is more successful if the change agent prevents its diffusion from one part of the organization to other parts.

According to the force field analysis model,what is the best strategy to move the status quo to a desired state?

Senior executives at a large retail organization want employees to become more customer-friendly.Employees think they are serving customers well enough and the company is the dominant player in the market.What should the executives do in this situation?

Increasing the restraining forces and reducing the driving forces tends to:

In Lewin's force field analysis model,refreezing involves producing a disequilibrium between the current and unfrozen state.

Which change management practice encourages employee involvement?

Change agents should apply the action research model if they want to help people to break out of a problem-solving mentality and,instead,reframe relationships around the positive and possible.

Which of the following helps to refreeze the desired change?

Action research takes the view that organizational change is all about bringing about real change,not testing theory.

Unfreezing refers to:

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