Understanding Business Organisations: Change Management

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What is the primary motivation for organisational change?

The desire to improve internal processes and systems

The need to adapt to the external environment (correct)

Internal events that are threatening the ability to deliver the expected performance

The desire to reduce costs and increase efficiency

What is the primary reason why cultural change and organisational change are bound together?

Because organisational change requires a cultural shift to be successful (correct)

Because cultural change is a type of organisational change

Because they are both initiated by influential players

Because cultural change is only possible through organisational change

What is the primary role of influential players in the change process?

To initiate change because of a performance gap (correct)

To diagnose the nature of the project

To plan and implement changes to the internal context

To manage external information to affect decisions on change

What is the primary purpose of a change project?

To close the performance gap Signup and view all the answers

What are the four common types of change?

Structural, technological, systems, and cultural Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary outcome of a successful change project?

A closure of the performance gap Signup and view all the answers

What type of change involves changing people and is considered the hardest to achieve?

Cultural change Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is a characteristic of the 'taken-for-granted assumptions' layer of corporate culture?

It is a set of beliefs that people accept without question Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary reason why cultural change is more difficult to achieve than other types of change?

It involves changing people's beliefs and ways of thinking Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe the set of beliefs, customs, practices, and ways of thinking that are shared by a group of people through their interactions with each other?

The culture of a group of people Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of cultural change in an organisation?

To align the organisation's culture with its mission and objectives Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT a layer of corporate culture?

Performance metrics Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary motivation behind an organisational change?

To address a performance gap Signup and view all the answers

Which type of change is concerned with modifying the underlying values, attitudes, and behaviours of an organisation?

Cultural change Signup and view all the answers

What is the result of a mismatch between an organisation's current performance and its desired performance?

Performance gap Signup and view all the answers

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What is the primary motivation for organisational change?

What is the primary reason why cultural change and organisational change are bound together?

What is the primary role of influential players in the change process?

What is the primary purpose of a change project?

What are the four common types of change?

What is the primary outcome of a successful change project?

What type of change involves changing people and is considered the hardest to achieve?

Which of the following is a characteristic of the 'taken-for-granted assumptions' layer of corporate culture?

What is the primary reason why cultural change is more difficult to achieve than other types of change?

What is the term used to describe the set of beliefs, customs, practices, and ways of thinking that are shared by a group of people through their interactions with each other?

What is the primary goal of cultural change in an organisation?

Which of the following is NOT a layer of corporate culture?

What is the primary motivation behind an organisational change?

Which type of change is concerned with modifying the underlying values, attitudes, and behaviours of an organisation?

What is the result of a mismatch between an organisation's current performance and its desired performance?

What is the term for the intertwined process of changing an organisation's culture and structure?

Which of the following is NOT a type of organisational change?

What is the ultimate goal of the change management process?

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Questions and Answers

What is the primary motivation for organisational change?

What is the primary reason why cultural change and organisational change are bound together?

What is the primary role of influential players in the change process?

What is the primary purpose of a change project?

What are the four common types of change?

What is the primary outcome of a successful change project?

What type of change involves changing people and is considered the hardest to achieve?

Which of the following is a characteristic of the 'taken-for-granted assumptions' layer of corporate culture?

What is the primary reason why cultural change is more difficult to achieve than other types of change?

What is the term used to describe the set of beliefs, customs, practices, and ways of thinking that are shared by a group of people through their interactions with each other?

What is the primary goal of cultural change in an organisation?

Which of the following is NOT a layer of corporate culture?

What is the primary motivation behind an organisational change?

Which type of change is concerned with modifying the underlying values, attitudes, and behaviours of an organisation?

What is the result of a mismatch between an organisation's current performance and its desired performance?

What is the term for the intertwined process of changing an organisation's culture and structure?

Which of the following is NOT a type of organisational change?

What is the ultimate goal of the change management process?

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Org. Change Ch. 1 (T&amp;F)

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