Convenience

Questions for Review
1.
What forces or kinds of events lead to organization
change? Identify each force or event as the primary
determinant of a planned or a reactive change.
2.
Compare planned and reactive change. What are
the advantages of planned change, as compared to
reactive change?
3.
Identify the primary reasons people resist change,
and then summarize the primary
methods
managers can use to overcome this resistance.
4.
In a brief sentence or just a phrase, describe each
of the OD techniques.
5.
Consider the following list of products. Categorize
each along all three dimensions of innovation, if
possible (radical versus incremental, technical
versus managerial, and product versus process).
Explain your answers.
• Teaching college courses by digitally recording
the instructor and then making the digital file
available online
• The rise in popularity of virtual organizations
(discussed in Chapter 6)
• Checking the security of packages on airlines
with the type of magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) scanning devices that are common in
health care
• Smartphone devices such as the iPhone
• Robotic arms that can perform surgery that is
too precise for a human surgeon’s hands
• Hybrid automobiles, which run on both bat-
teries and gasoline
• Using video games to teach soldiers how to plan
and execute battles
Chapter 7:
Organization Change and Innovation
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