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Mcqs On Models
Mcqs On Models
of ______________?
Strategy
Getting others to follow
Command
Control
What are the four main styles of leadership displayed by the manager
which identified in Tannenbaum and Schmidt's continuum of possible
leadership behaviour?
None of the above
Tells, helps, joins and leads
Tells, sells, consults and joins
Commands, sells, consults and resists
Commands, helps, joins and leads
According to Fiedler’s LPC scale what will leaders with a low LPC score
gain satisfaction from?
Achieving objectives
Developing team relationships
Both of the above
Neither of the above
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Change agents
Innovators
Team leaders
Consultants
Stan is trying to implement a new organizational structure at his
company. A group of key employees is resisting the change. In an
attempt to "buy off" the leaders, Stan is giving them a key role in the
change decision. He doesn't really value their opinion, but wants their
endorsement. Stan is using the change strategy of _____.
education
cooptation
negotiation
coercion
a financial analysis tool used to evaluate the areas of the organization with the
greatest potential for change
a change process that focuses on the forces driving change and the forces
restraining change
a change process based on the systematic collection of data and then selection of
a change action based on what the analyzed data indicate
all of the above
_____ is a paradigm that values human and organizational growth,
collaborative processes, and a spirit of inquiry.
Organizational development
Change management
Action research
Employee wellness
True
False
True
False
True
False
Work stress will have a negative impact on employee performance.
True
False
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Which of these steps in Kotter's change model involves monitoring the acceptance of change
and how well the organizational culture is adapting to that change?
2. Which of these steps in Kotter's change model provides employees with a clear
understanding of what the change is all about?
3. Which of these steps in Kotter's change model requires the change leader to remove any
barriers to change?
4. Which of these steps in Kotter's change model involves the change leader selecting and
recruiting a team of individuals who will be capable of carrying out the change?
5. Which of these steps in Kotter's change model involves inspiring the necessary teamwork,
ideas, and eagerness to make sacrifices relating to the change?
1. consolidate gains to produce more change
2. establish a sense of urgency
3. generate short-term wins
4. create the guiding coalition
5. develop a vision and strateg
The term ________ refers to a set of sequenced planned actions or events intended to help an
organization increase its effectiveness.
Select correct option:
Intervention
Performance management
Institutionalization
Knowledge management
Pg#121
The term intervention refers to a set of sequenced planned actions or events intended to
help an
organization increase its effectiveness.
Which of the following models focuses on planned change as a cyclical process in which initial
research about the organization provides information to guide subsequent action?
Select correct option:
Action research model
Lewin’s change model
Contemporary action research
Lickert scale
Pg#31
The action research model focuses on planned change as a cyclical process in which initial
research about
the organization provides information to guide subsequent action.
As an OD consultant you have fear of unpredictable outcome of OD practices. This fear gets stronger
in which of the following situations?
Select correct option:
Entering stage when the consultant is external
Entering stage when the consultant is internal
Contracting stage when the consultant is external
Contracting stage when the consultant is internal
Pg#59
Source clients
• Build relationships
• Learn company jargon
• “presenting problem” challenge
• Time consuming
• Stressful phase
• Select project/client according to own criteria
• Unpredictable outcome
Kurt Lewin was the founder of which of the following?
Select correct option:
T-groups
Quality of work life
Strategic change
Participative management
Pg#11
Kurt Lewin, a
prolific theorist, researcher, and practitioner in group dynamics and social change, was
instrumental in the
development of T-groups, survey feedback, and action research.
Question # 1 of 15 ( Start time: 06:22:41 PM ) Total M - 1
Which of the following is NOT an invisible manifestation of culture?
Select correct option:
Attitudes
Beliefs
Worldviews
Benefits
Pg#20
Invisible Manifestations of Culture:
• Values
• Private Conversations (with self or confidants)
• Invisible Rules
• Attitudes
• Beliefs
• Worldviews
• Moods and Emotions
• Unconscious Interpretations
• Standards of Behavior
• Paradigms
• Assumptions
Question # 2 of 15 ( Start time: 06:23:47 PM ) Total M - 1
Developing a marketing strategy for a new product is an example of which of the following consulting
models?
Select correct option:
Purchase of Expertise Model
Doctor-patient Model
Process Consultation Model
Organization model
Pg#4
In the “purchase of expertise model,” a leader or group identifies a need for information or
expertise
that the organization cannot supply. The leader hires a consultant to obtain the information
and make a
report, often including recommendations for action. Example would be (1) surveying
consumers or
employees about some matter, (2) finding out how best to organize the company after a
merger, or (3)
developing a marketing strategy for a new product.
Question # 3 of 15 ( Start time: 06:24:31 PM ) Total M - 1
Sustained planned change requires which of the following change to be incorporated in organization?
Select correct option:
Structural change
Cultural change
Change in vision
Change in mission
Question # 4 of 15 ( Start time: 06:26:00 PM ) Total M - 1
Norms essential to accomplishing the organization's objectives are called:
Select correct option:
Pivotal norms
Irrelevant norms
Peripheral norms
Marginal norms
Pg#21
Norms essential to accomplishing the organization's objectives are called pivotal
norms.
Question # 5 of 15 ( Start time: 06:26:46 PM ) Total M - 1
________ involves goal setting, performance appraisal, and reward systems that align member work
behavior with business strategy, employee involvement, and workplace technology.
Select correct option:
Human Resource Management
Performance management
Management By objectives
Knowledge management
Pg#227
Performance management involves goal setting, performance appraisal, and reward
systems
that align member work behavior with business strategy, employee involvement, and
workplace technology.
Question # 6 of 15 ( Start time: 06:27:51 PM ) Total M - 1
Kurt Lewin was the founder of which of the following?
Select correct option:
Survey feedback
Quality of work life
Strategic change
Participative management
Pg#11
Kurt Lewin, a
prolific theorist, researcher, and practitioner in group dynamics and social change, was
instrumental in the
development of T-groups, survey feedback, and action research.
Question # 7 of 15 ( Start time: 06:28:22 PM ) Total M - 1
In which of the following stage of planned change, the feedback to organization members about the
intervention's results provides information about whether the changes should be continued, modified,
or suspended.
Select correct option:
Evaluating and Institutionalizing Change
Planning and Implementing Change
Diagnosing
Entering and Contracting
Pg#36
Evaluating and Institutionalizing Change:
The final stage in planned change involves evaluating the effects of the intervention and
managing the institutionalization of successful change programs. Feedback to organization
members about the
intervention's results provides information about whether the changes should be continued,
modified, or
suspended.
Question # 8 of 15 ( Start time: 06:29:11 PM ) Total M - 1
The modern manager must be flexible and adaptive to changing environment. He must also posses
which of the following capabilities?
Select correct option:
Problem diagnostic capabilities (Not sure)
Avoiding the change in external environment capabilities
Capabilities to implement strict rules and policies
All of the given options
Question # 9 of 15 ( Start time: 06:30:35 PM ) Total M - 1
Which of the following can affect the kinds of job designs that are considered acceptable?
Select correct option:
Group performance norms
Group composition
Goal clarity
Task structure
Pg#98
Group performance norms can affect the kinds of job designs
that are considered acceptable, including the level of job holders’ performances.
Question # 10 of 15 ( Start time: 06:31:26 PM ) Total M - 1
Which of the following models focuses on planned change as a cyclical process in which initial
research about the organization provides information to guide subsequent action?
Select correct option:
Action research model
Lewin’s change model
Contemporary action research
Lickert scale
Pg#31
The action research model focuses on planned change as a cyclical process in which initial
research
about
the organization provides information to guide subsequent action.
Question # 11 of 15 ( Start time: 06:32:31 PM ) Total M - 1
Which one of the following is the identity of inputs at organization level of comparison planned change
model?
Select correct option:
Industry structure
Measurement system
Organization effectiveness
Technology
Pg#82
Question # 12 of 15 ( Start time: 06:33:50 PM ) Total M - 1
At individual level diagnosis, “autonomy” is the component of:
Select correct option:
Input
Design component
Output
Fit
Pg#98
Design Components:
Figure 25(C) shows that individual jobs have five key dimensions: skill variety, task identity,
task
significance, autonomy, and feedback about results.
Question # 13 of 15 ( Start time: 06:34:50 PM ) Total M - 1
The application of behavioral science knowledge is present in which of the following planned change
models?
Select correct option:
Lewin’s change model
Action research model
Contemporary adaptations to the ac¬tion research model
All models include application of behavioral science knowledge
Question # 14 of 15 ( Start time: 06:35:46 PM ) Total M - 1
Expectations of both parties (OD consultants and clients) from each other are taken into consideration
in which of the following stages of action research model?
Select correct option:
Entering
Contracting
Diagnosis
Feedback
Question # 15 of 15 ( Start time: 06:36:49 PM ) Total M - 1
A process that deals with facilitating system wide change in an organization is known as:
Select correct option:
Organization development
Organizational change management
Structural change management
Organization theory
Question # 1 of 15 ( Start time: 06:44:16 PM ) Total M - 1
The________ involves specifying how the client and the OD practitioner will work together.
Select correct option:
Contracting process
Entering process
OD process
Selecting process
Pg#70
The final part of the contracting process involves specifying how the client and the OD
practitioner will work together.
Question # 2 of 15 ( Start time: 06:45:03 PM ) Total M - 1
Employee involvement is the common traits of:
Select correct option:
Successful organization
Learning organization
Developing organization
Losing organization
Question # 3 of 15 ( Start time: 06:45:46 PM ) Total M - 1
A manager must make sure to employees that in the process of unfreezing while incorporating
planned change in organization, their self esteem will not get hurt. Which of the following stage of
unfreezing truly takes in to consideration the above reservation?
Select correct option:
Disconfirmation
Creation of psychological safety
Induction of guilt
Induction of anxiety
Pg#27
iii. Creation of psychological safety. To face disconfirmation, experience guilt
or anxiety, and be able to act or move, people must believe that moving will not
bring them humiliation or loss of self-esteem.
Question # 4 of 15 ( Start time: 06:46:32 PM ) Total M - 1
A process that deals with facilitating system wide change in an organization is known as:
Select correct option:
Organization development
Organizational change management
Structural change management
Organization theory
Question # 5 of 15 ( Start time: 06:47:36 PM ) Total M - 1
Internal consultants have clear advantage over external consultants at entry stage due to which of the
following factors?
Select correct option:
Informal agreements
No out-of-pocket expenses
Information can be open or confidential
Ready relationships
Pg# 59
Question # 6 of 15 ( Start time: 06:48:23 PM ) Total M - 1
All of the following are the benefits an external consultant gets in consulting stage of organization
development EXCEPT:
Select correct option:
Formal documents
Must complete projects assigned
Can terminate project at will
Information confidential
Pg#59
Question # 7 of 15 ( Start time: 06:49:18 PM ) Total M - 1
“Coding and interpretation difficulties” is the disadvantage of:
Select correct option:
Interview
Questionnaire
Observation
Unobtrusive measures
Pg#104
Expense
• Bias in interviewer responses
• coding and interpretation
difficulties
• self-report bias
Question # 8 of 15 ( Start time: 06:49:46 PM ) Total M - 1
At the group level diagnosis the “task structure” is the component of:
Select correct option:
Input
Output
Design component
Fit
Pg#92
Question # 9 of 15 ( Start time: 06:50:34 PM ) Total M - 1
Lewin’s change model differs from other models in which of the following grounds?
Select correct option:
It emphasizes on application of behavioral science knowledge
It focuses on general practices of planned change
It involves organizational member in change process
It forces the interaction between consultants and organization
Question # 10 of 15 ( Start time: 06:51:57 PM ) Total M - 1
Which one of the following is the identity of inputs at organization level of comparison planned change
model?
Select correct option:
Industry structure
Measurement system
Organization effectiveness
Technology
Question # 11 of 15 ( Start time: 06:53:22 PM ) Total M - 1
Handling well the group dynamics and understanding comparative cultural perspectives in an
organization are core elements of which of the following skills of OD practitioner?
Select correct option:
Intrapersonal skills
Interpersonal skills
General consultation skills
Organization development skills
553 2. Interpersonal skills. Practitioners must create and maintain effective relationships
with individuals and
groups within the organization and help them gain the competence necessary to solve their
own problems.
Group dynamics, comparative cultural perspectives, and business functions are considered
to be the
foundation knowledge, and managing the consulting process and facilitation as core skills.
Question # 12 of 15 ( Start time: 06:54:04 PM ) Total M - 1
Which one of the following is the component of design component at group level diagnosis?
Select correct option:
Goal clarity
General environment
Group design
Personal characteristic
Pg#92
Question # 13 of 15 ( Start time: 06:55:25 PM ) Total M - 1
“Responses can be quantified and easily summarized” is advantage of:
Select correct option:
Interview
Questionnaire
Observation
Unobtrusive measures
Pg#104
Responses can be quantified and
easily summarized
• Easy to use with large samples
• Relatively inexpensive
• Can obtain large volume of data
Question # 14 of 15 ( Start time: 06:56:24 PM ) Total M - 1
OD focuses on:
Select correct option:
Work design
Training and development
Technological innovation
Operations management
Question # 15 of 15 ( Start time: 06:56:49 PM ) Total M - 1
Force-Field Analysis is used for which type of data?
Select correct option:
Quantitative
Qualitative
Precise
Accurate
Pg#110
Qualitative Tools:
Of the several methods for summarizing diagnostic data in qualitative terms, two of the most
important are
content analysis and force-field analysis.
Question # 1 of 15 ( Start time: 06:58:30 PM ) Total M - 1
Which one of the following is the part of action research method?
Select correct option:
Unfreezing
Refreezing
Moving
Problem identification
Question # 2 of 15 ( Start time: 06:59:02 PM ) Total M - 1
Which of the following is not among the five stems of OD practices?
Select correct option:
Laboratory training
Action research
Participative management
Organizational transformation
Question # 3 of 15 ( Start time: 07:00:00 PM ) Total M - 1
“Decreasing number of customers” represents what in organization development process?
Select correct option:
A rapid change in organization
Diagnosis of problem
A specific problem
A general problem