Answers for Exam Preparation)
1. Jason has expertise in change management processes. Jason can be classified as a(n) ______.
- correct answer ✔✔OD consultant
2.- At _____ stage of the organizational life cycle, it becomes appropriate that many
organizations have to be reorganized or restructured to achieve higher levels of coordination
between and among different groups or subunits. - correct answer ✔✔Renewal
3. A diffuse organization concentrates resources in only a one or a very few locations, or a few
individuals are authorized to make decisions about the use of resources. - correct answer
✔✔FALSE
4. A geographic structure describes an organization that has multiple reporting lines of
authority. - correct answer ✔✔FALSE
5. Organizational design refers to the constant shifts that occur within an organizational system -
correct answer ✔✔FALSE
6. Culture change, among the most difficult kinds of changes to create within an organization
system, often involves reshaping and reimagining the core identity of the organization. - correct
answer ✔✔True
7. As a general rule of thumb, the more complex to potential change, the greater the need to
involve employees in the process of planning and implementing change. - correct answer
✔✔True
8. __refers to the constant shifts that occur within an organizational system - correct answer
✔✔organizational change
, 9. Transformational change refers to small refinements in current organizational practices or
routines that do not challenge, but rather build on or improve, existing aspects and practices
within the organization. - correct answer ✔✔False
10. Which of the following argues that organizations exist as socially constructed systems in
which people are constantly making sense of and enacting an organizational reality as they
interact with others in a system? - correct answer ✔✔Emergent approach
11. When BA Products, managers assume that BA employees will change if they know they will
otherwise face negative consequences, it refers to which of the following? - correct answer
✔✔Deficit-Based Change
12. Which of these is perhaps the most common way of depicting the formal organization? -
correct answer ✔✔Organizational Chart
13. _______ change is unintentional and is usually the result of informal organizing. - correct
answer ✔✔Unplanned change
14.- Which of these represents a kind of change that is necessary for an organization to achieve
the focus it needs to make needed transfer missions and work it does feel to stay competitive in
the current or larger organization, larger market environment, or societal environment? -
correct answer ✔✔Strategic change
15. Which of the following represent a model specifically designed as an abundance-based,
bottom-up, positive approach? - correct answer ✔✔Appreciative inquiry (AI) model
16. Patricia loves working for her new company and feels that the rewards she receives matches
the effort she puts in. Patricia loves working for her company because of _____. - correct
answer ✔✔Distributive justice