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26. The body of literature covered by Ford and Ford (2011) was limited to review of the
leadership of change per se and involved ______.
A. 14 articles
B. the period 27 empirical articles
C. clear-cut literature
D. easy to identify
27. Ford and Ford (2011) help further the understanding that leading change and
studying leadership involved ______.
A. charismatic leaders
B. the approaches taken by leaders to effectuate change
C. amount of resources directed towards effective change
D. followership
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28. The primary analysis that Ford and Ford (2012) conducted with the 14 studies they
reviewed concerned ______.
A. the recency of the studies
B. the qualitative aspect of the studies
C. whether leadership made a difference
D. all of these
29. Unique to the review by Ford and Ford was the consideration of a third area of
research ______.
A. cost of leading organization change
B. size of organizations and any differentiation
C. the impact of leading on the leaders themselves
D. all of these
30. The phrase “episodic change” is used to group together organizational changes that
tend to be ______.
A. long, complex, and evolutionary
B. infrequent, discontinuous, and intentional
C. costly, disruptive, and successful
D. transparent, perceptive, and salient
31. Weick and Quinn (1999) provided a new way of applying ______.
A. Lewin three stage model of the change process
B. application of entropy in open systems theory
C. offering a stage IV to Lewin’s three stage model
D. none of these
32. Burke has focused on reviewing the reviews of organization change research and
theory over the past quarter century because ______.
A. earlier research was sparse and misdirected
B. normal science could not lead to usable conclusions and it was only in 1991 that
Porras and Silvers proposed a framework and process as an adequate theory about
how organization change actually works
C. the research added support for considering organization change in terms of complex
nonlinear systems and of behavioral focus preceding cognition
D. all of these
33. A highly useful way to understand organization change more effectively is ______.
A. consider whether the change is episodic or continuous
B. consider whether the change needs to be episodic or continuous
C. conducting 360-degree feedback surveys
D. A and B
34. To perceive a causal link between our thoughts and actions, according to Wagner
and Wheatley (1999), requires meeting three criteria of the following criteria, ______.
A. priority
B. consistency
C. the absence of other attributes it causes
D. all of these
35. Porras and Silvers (1999) followed a new model or theory of planned change that
offered ______.
A. framework beginning with organizational interventions intended to affect certain
variables
B. ignoring individual behavior and organizational performance
C. placing all impact on change leadership
D. none of these
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True/False
1. Organization change theory is widely researched and can be dated back to the early
1920s.
2. According to Faucheux, there needs to be a stronger linkage between social and
technical approaches in OD.
3. A gamma change involves change from one state to another.
4. A few main aspects from research has found that trust, involvement, and selection to
lead a successful change effort automatically lead to change recipients trusting their
leaders.
5. Distributed leadership and the “heroic leader paradigm” go hand in hand.
6. Ford stated that the way leaders approach change has an effect on recipients as
measured by their commitment and readiness for change.
7. Planned change forces the organization to respond to external change.
8. To assume that change in organizations is or can be rational is irrational.
9. It looks as though more creativity is likely to emerge in the action science world.
10. It is irrelevant to understand organization change more effectively by considering
whether the change is episodic or continuous
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Short Answer
1. According to Friedlander and Brown’s (1974) “Approaches to Organization
Development” model, there are two basic targets of change interventions. What are
they? What are the intervention outcomes? Give examples of each target of
intervention.
2. According to Porras and Silvers’ (1991) “Planned Process Model of Organizational
Change,” there are two basic types of change interventions. What are they? What
variables does each target? What are the intervention outcomes? Describe how the
target variables lead to individual organizational members’ behavior changes.
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3. Compare and contrast the linear, open-system model of organization change with the
nonlinear complexity model of organization change.
4. In concluding that the emerging field of action science may need to be followed,
Burke referred to a 2016 discussion dealing with the issues of normal science versus
applied/action research. In the panel presentation at the annual meeting of the
Academy of Management, what was the conclusion?
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5. Weick and Quinn (1999) consider there to be two primary categories of organization
change: episodic and continuous. Describe their definition of episodic change and their
description of continuous change.