HRM 310 Week 1 Quiz

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1. What are the two distinct aspects of organizational change that must be addressed?
2. Why and where
3. Why and what
4. How and what
5. How and why
6. Which of the following does not reflect an open systems perspective?
7. Systems are not isolated but interact with their environment constantly
8. Relationships are largely linear and can be broken down into cause and effect
9. Individuals in the system may have different views of it
10. A system seeks equilibrium and doesn’t change unless energy is applied
11. Organizational change is the planned alteration of organizational components to improve the ________________ of organizations.
12. Effectiveness
13. Profitability
14. Efficiency
15. Culture
16. What are Duck’s Five Stages of Change?
17. Preparation, implementation, vacillation, flagellation, completion
18. Stagnation, preparation, implementation, determination, fruition
19. Configuration, centralization, fertilization, perspiration, preservation
20. Anticipation, stimulation, application, determination, acclimatization
21. According to the authors’ focus, which is NOT an example of organizational change?
22. Downsizing
23. Installing new technology
24. Increasing existing sales efforts
25. Outsourcing
26. Organizational change most often requires changing at what three levels?
27. Strategy, operations, and human resources
28. Simple, joint, and complex
29. Individual, unit, and organization
30. Beginning, middle, and end