Demonstrating to others how a new product will be made, how new customers will be reached, or how you'll beat your competitors is most helpful for fostering innovation in which way?
  • innovative
  • Gaining allies by communicating your vision.
  • change agent.
  • changing
When a manager is trying to foster innovation, the first thing he or she should do is
  • Prevent failure at all cost.
  • Innovation can be systematized.
  • recognize problems and opportunities.
  • resistance to change.
Kotter's steps for change are valuable for managers who are attempting to bring it about because
  • recognize problems and opportunities.
  • True
  • Prevent failure at all cost.
  • they include specific recommendations for behaviors that managers need to exhibit.
Innovation that creates products, services, or technologies that replace existing ones is known as
  • resistance to change.
  • social pressures
  • medical-like
  • radical innovation.
Generating short-term wins in Kotter's organizational change model is one of the steps that is most like which part of Lewin's change model?
  • change agent.
  • changing
  • innovative
  • unfreezing
There has recently been a social media frenzy regarding the use of "pink slime" as a beef additive, though it has been used safely for many years. Several grocery chains discontinued selling products containing it as part of what type of a response?
  • social pressures
  • innovative
  • Reactive change
  • change agent.
An emotional or behavioral response to real or imagined threats to an established work routine is known as
  • medical-like
  • resistance to change.
  • radical innovation.
  • recognize problems and opportunities.
Which of the following are the forces for change originating inside the organization?
  • recognize problems and opportunities.
  • Employee problems and managers' behavior
  • Prevent failure at all cost.
  • poor timing
A consultant with a background in behavioral sciences who can be a catalyst in helping organizations deal with old problems in new ways is known as a(n)
  • changing
  • unfreezing
  • social pressures
  • change agent.
Organizational development managers and consultants follow a(n) ______ model.
  • radical innovation.
  • poor timing
  • resistance to change.
  • medical-like
Hubris or arrogance born of past success and denial of risk and peril moving forward are associated with radical innovation. (T/F?)
  • True
  • False
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