Exam 5: The Organization Development Practitioner and the OD Process

In ______, formal events are not necessary for the practitioner to intervene ; rather, a practitioner can interevene into an ongoing team conversation.

One negative aspect of OD being an internal function within an organization is that it gets buried within HR.

Discuss the ethical implications of a OD consultant seeing perpetuation of a client's ignorance as advantageous.

Bushe identifies the term ______, defined as "ideas, phrases, objects, pictures, manifestos, stories, or new words . . . [that] allow us to see new alternatives for decisions and actions . . . [and] generate change because people like the new options in front of them and want to use them."

The ______ approach to consulting essentially gives the consultant responsibilty over virtually every aspect of the problem and the solution, and the client relinquishes both accountability and responsibility of the problem.

The consultant's role generally exists as an outsider to the client's system.

The action research model is more ______ rather than linear.

In an ideal form, action research is a ______ in which the researcher is actively engaged with those experiencing the problem versus conducting research on them.

Earning a regular salary is an example of which of the following?

Having more knowledge of organizational culture, history, and practices is an example of which of the following?

Which of the following is NOT a change process that occurs in dialogic OD?

During the diagnosis and feedback stage of consulting, the data is analyzed and interpreted.

Within the ______ approach to consulting, the consultant has the responsibility to invite the client to share expectations about roles and working expectations.

When using the ______ approach to consulting, the client has typically framed the problem already as a gap in knowledge that the consultant can fulfill.

Which consulting approach most focuses on a shared view of all responsibilities?