Chapter 12 Managing Organization Change Innovation.

QUESTION 1: What forces or kinds of events leads to organization change? Identify each force or event as a planned or a reactive change.

Questions 2 : Compare planned and reactive change. What are the advantages of planned change as compared to reactive change.

Questions 3: In a brief sentence or just a phrase, describe each of the organizational development (OD) techniques.

Questions 4: consider the following list of innovations. Categorize each along all three dimensions of innovation, if possible (radical versus incremental, technical versus managerial, and product versus process). Explain your answers.

Questions 5: what are the symptoms that a manager should look for in determining whether an organization needs to change? What are the symptoms that indicate that an organization has been through too much change?