Organizational Change Management Quiz
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What are the conditions required to effectively manage change according to John Kotter’s Model?

  • Ignoring employee feedback
  • Establishing a sense of urgency (correct)
  • Offering financial incentives to employees
  • Maintaining the status quo
  • What is a source of complacency identified in the text?

  • Regular performance feedback from external sources
  • Encouraging open communication within the organization
  • Setting high overall performance standards
  • Too much happy talk from senior management (correct)
  • What is a recommendation for successful change as per John Kotter?

  • Avoiding communication about the change vision
  • Creating the guiding coalition (correct)
  • Ignoring the existing organizational culture
  • Focusing only on long-term wins
  • What is a reason for transformation efforts to fail according to the text?

    <p>Certain things are not kept in mind</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a way to communicate the change to be brought about?

    <p>Developing a vision and strategy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a source of complacency related to organizational structures?

    <p>Organizational structures that focus employees on narrow functional goals</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a source of complacency related to human nature?

    <p>Human nature, with its capacity for denial, especially if people are already busy or stressed</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a reason for resistance to change according to the text?

    <p>The absence of a major and visible crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three stages of Kurt Lewin’s model of change?

    <p>Unfreezing, Moving, Refreezing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the IBM study, what is a core competence for companies to survive?

    <p>Managing change</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main reason for failed change initiatives, according to the CEOs surveyed by IBM?

    <p>A gap between actual change capability and needed change capability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is listed as one of the barriers to change in the IBM study?

    <p>Lack of commitment of the higher management</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is considered an ingredient for successful change in the IBM study?

    <p>Employee involvement</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a common human reaction to disruptive events, as mentioned in the text?

    <p>Resistance to change</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the power of resistant employees, as mentioned in the text?

    <p>Resistant employees are often seen as non-rationally thinking trouble-makers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is needed to survive in today’s competitive environment, according to the text?

    <p>Technology-based change</p> Signup and view all the answers

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