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MGT 435 Week 1 Quiz 1

1. Organizational change is most likely to occur in an ethical fashion when team members __________.
2. Which of the following most accurately characterizes the general goal of planned organizational change?
3. Which of the following is an example of proactive change?
4. Compared to reactive change, proactive changes initiated by organization leaders __________.
5. The group that can affect or be affected by an organization’s actions is known as __________.
6. Which of the following is the final step in Lewin’s method for identifying the forces for and against a particular situation, problem, or opportunity?
7. Which-of the following techniques might organizational development specialists utilize in their work?
8. Which of the following is NOT one of Lewin’s general stages of change?
9. All of the following are forces for change in an organization EXCEPT __________.
10. Which of the following types of change involves improving upon what already exists?

MGT 435 Week 1 Quiz 2

1. Which of the following is not the case with regard to climate change issues and company competiveness?
2. Compared to reactive change, proactive changes initiated by organization leaders . . .
3. Which of the following is a key factor in allowing a small business to remain competitive?
4. Which-of the following frameworks of effective organizational change focuses on the ethical behavior of organizational members and groups?
5. Which of the following techniques might organizational development specialists utilize in their work?
6. True or false?  The field of change management studies is relatively new and such courses were not offered in most universities only three decades ago.
7. Which of the following types of change consists of an implementation to achieve a known desired state that differs from an existent one?
8. Which of the following is a Type 1 error that managers sometimes make in response to their perceptions of external e change?
9. Which-of the following is an example of proactive change?
10. Which of the following most accurately characterizes the general goal of planned organizational change?

MGT 435 Week 1 Quiz 3

1. The three stages in Lewin’s model are unfreezing, moving and refreezing.
2. Outsourcing is a guaranteed change in techniques for organizational turnaround.
3. Which strategy was implemented by Concord Bookstore in order to be competitive?
4. Typically, trigger events are discontinuities in a firm’s competitive environment.
5. ___________ refer(s) to the actions employees take to enact their roles and responsibilities within the organization.
6. Employee resistance to change is caused by:
7. Schein suggested that to truly unfreeze behavior, we must accept the [disconfirming] information and connect it to something we care about.
8. Behavior change requires:
9. A business owner, with 25 employees, tells employees that they need to be more responsive to customers, coordinate better with international operations, bring new products to market more quickly, work more effectively across functions and so forth. The likelihood of change is:
10. To be effective, a change leader’s initial task is to create ____________.