Exam 15: Global Issues in Organization Development

Questions such as « How is organization development perceived in the host nation? How am I to be percevied, by the client, as an OD consultant? » are questions to be asked based on which piece of helpful advice to those choosing to proceed with global OD?

Organization development is less compatible with cultures high in ______ because of more structured, more bureaucratic organizations, and more task oriented, less flexible managers.

Cultures low in ______ are more compatible as indicated by more collaboration, rejection of Theory X, and greater gender equity.

In ______, team-building activities that begin with task work is appropriate; confrontation meetings and other interventions that encourage public statements of negativity would not be accepted.

In the African culture, ______ are an integral part; they are guidelines for individual, family, village, and community behavior, build on repeated real life experiences and observations over long periods of time.

Cultures changing over time and the presence of subcultures are relevant to which reason of applicability of OD and practicing OD in a global environment?

It is easy to conclusively say which interventions are universally applicable across cultures.

Which reason as to why the applicability of OD and practicing OD in a global environment is actually the same as assessing it in a single culture?

______ is defined as the extent to which the members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous or unknown situations.

In countries with a low power distance, there will be more hierarchy in organizations.

Values of harmony, face, conformity, and ordered relationships in ______ imply that large-scale change is risky.

Which assumption or generalization about how OD interventions are practiced in global environments assumes that underlying values of different OD interventions all reflect equivalent core values?

The power distance and bureaucratic designs of most organizations in ______ would challenge the ability of an OD consultant to form the necessary partnership relationship needed to be successful with both clients and organizational members.

What is some useful advice on how to proceed with a global OD intervention?

Which country is known to place more value on masculinity?

Which reason as to why the applicability of OD and practicing OD in a global environment relates to much research having an ethnocentric view, which is of little value to global organizations that require collaboration across cultures and boundaries?

Process modifications may be necessary, and this relates to which piece of helpful advice to those choosing to proceed with global OD?

______ is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally.

Which country is known to place more value on long-term orientation?

Cultures low in ______ are more compatible with organization development, with more decentralized, flatter, and collaborative organizations.