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HRM 628 Organizational Developments
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Quiz # 1 FALL 2007
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Part-a: Choose either statement is True or False
1) The development of openness and trust between practitioner and client is an
essential aspect of change management
T
F
2) The term culture refers to a specific civilization, society, or group and its
distinguishing characteristics.
T
F
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3) Managerial innovation has responded to the globalization and information
technology trends and has accelerated their impact on external environment of the
organization.
T
F
4) The open system is a continual interaction with its environment and therefore
achieves a steady state of dynamic equilibrium
T
F
5) A system is an organized unitary whole composed of two or more
interdependent parts, components and delineated by identifiable boundaries
from its environment
T
F
Part-b: Choose the one option which is most accurate
1) Visible Manifestations of Culture is

a) Work/Life Balance
b) Attitudes
c) Beliefs
d) None of the given options
2) Norms that support and contribute to the pivotal norms but are not essential to
the organization's objectives are called
e) Traditions
f) Peripheral norms
g) Values
h) All of the above options
3) the first step of any organizational change process is
a) Innovation
b) Creativity
c) All of the given options
4) The pathfinder practitioner focuses on
a) Member role and functions in groups
b) Group problem-solving and decision-making
c) Group norms and growth
d) All of the given options
5) This ethical conflict occurs
a) When the purpose of the change effort is not clear
b) When the client and the practitioner disagree over how to achieve the
goals.
c) None of the given options
Quiz No.2 Fall2007

Organizational Development HRM628
HRM 628 Organizational Development
1) In intervention a frame work for carrying out helping

relationships is:
a) Process consultation
b) T group
c) Group process Approach
2) The change Agent must be the ----------------- within an
organization.
a) Leader
b) Consultant
c) Manager
3) According to computational formula monthly turnover rate
can be measure
through:
a) Tardiness incident / average workforce size * working days
b) Working days / average workforce size
c) Average workforce size * working days / _ Tardiness incident
4) T group consist of ----------------------number of people.
a) 5-10
b) 10-15
c) 10-20
d) Only one person
5) Measuring result repeatedly over a long time period is
called:
a) Longitudinal measurement
b) Horizontal measurement
c) Vertical measurement
d) Statistical Measurement
e)
6) Institutionalizing is management intervention concerns
refreezing. It involves the
long-term persistence of organizational changes: to the extent
that changes persist,
they can be said to be institutionalized.
True
False
7) Third-party intervention focuses on Conflict arising between
two or more people
within the same organization.
True
False
8) Walton has identified a number of factors and tactical
choices that can facilitate
the use of the episode model in resolving the underlying
causes of conflict.
True
False
9) Extrinsic rewards are internal and derive from the
opportunities for challenge,
development, and accomplishment found in the work.
True
False
10) Interpersonal conflict often occurs in iterative, cyclical
stages known as episodes.
True
False
HRM 628 Organizational Development

Solution
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Quiz # 3 Fall 2007
1) Employee involvement seeks to increase members input into

decisions that affect
organization performance and employee well-being.
a) True
b) False
2) Planning, Decision making and control resides primarily on
the middle of the
organization.
a) True
b) False
3) Vertical desegregation refers to the breaking up of the
organization’s business
functions.
a) True
b) False
4) Layoff is the termination of employment of an employee or
(more commonly) a
group of employees for business reasons, such as the decision
that certain positions
are no longer necessary.
a) True
b) False
5) Grid Organization development is a system-wide planned
change. It is believed
that managers and organizations can only be made more
effective if the basic
culture of the system is changed.
a) True
b) False
6) Managerial philosophy, strategy, and structure is called:
a) Stability of environment and technology
b) Congruence
c) Unionization
7) -------------- facilitates institutionalization by providing a
wider organizational
base to support the new behaviors.
a) Diffusion
b) Unionization
c) Sensing and calibration
8) In effective change management sustaining moment
includes:
a) Providing resources for change
b) Building support system for change agent
c) Developing new competencies
9) ------------------------- is the philosophy and a set of guiding
principles for
continuous improvement based on customer satisfaction,
teamwork and
empowerment of individual.
a) Management sciences
b) Total quality management
c) Both of the given options
10) ----------------- facilitate problem solving and change by
providing time and
resources for members to think, talk, and act in completely
new ways, while the
norms and procedure are entirely different from those of the
formal organization.
a) Horizontal structures
b) Parallel structures
c) Vertical structures
Quiz 1
MGMT 628
Due date: 08 November, 2008
]
1. OD focuses on:
a. Work design
b. Training and development
c. Technological innovation
d. Operations management
2. Developing a marketing strategy for a new product is an example of which of

the following consulting models?
a. Purchase of Expertise Model

b. Doctor-patient Model
c. Process Consultation Model
d. Organization model
3. The consultant works with the leader and group to diagnose strengths and
weaknesses, identify problems and opportunities, and develop action plans
and methods for reaching desired goals in which type of consulting model?
a. Purchase of Expertise Model

b. Doctor-patient Model
c. Process Consultation Model
d. Organization model
4. “High conflict about tasks and projects” is a trait of which of the following
types of organizations?
a. Effective organization
b. Learning organization
c. Developing organization
d. Losing organization
5. A small, unstructured group in which participants learn from their own

interactions and evolving dynamics about such issues as interpersonal
relations, personal growth, leadership, and group dynamics is:
a. Action Research
b. The T-Group
c. Strategic change
d. Quality of work life
6. In which approach the organization is viewed as a set of processes that can be
linked to the quality of products and services, modeled through statistical
techniques and improved continuously?
a. Laboratory training
b. Survey feed back
c. Participative management
d. Quality of work life
7. Which of the following is not an example of OD?

a. Team building with top management
b. Structural change in municipality
c. Job enrichment in a manufacturing firm
d. Training and development in a department
8. A structural/ behavioral focus is required to bring _____________ change in

the organizations.
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
c. Cultural
d. Rapid
9. Organizations should adopt which of the following features in order to be
successful in future?
a. Slower and more focused on objective
b. Employee involvement
c. Profit oriented
d. Bigger in size
10. Communication occurs both laterally and vertically in which of the following
systems?
a. Exploitative authoritative system

b. Benevolent authoritative system
c. Consultative system
d. Participative group system

Solution
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Quiz # 2 SPECIAL 2007
1) The process of developing and implementing an appropriate

organization structure is
called:
a) Organizational development
b) Organization design
c) Change management
2) In Organization development the ----------------------------
encourage s greater collaboration
between clients and consultants, engages the resources and
talent of clients and
strengthens clients abilities to improve their work processes.
a) Process consultant model
b) Doctor patient model
c) Purchase of expertise model
3) Norms essential to accomplishing the organization's
objectives are
a) Peripheral norms
b) Pivotal norms
c) Social norms
4) Dynamic organization always move from the process of
a) Downsizing
b) Reengineering
c) Structural change
5) The pathfinder practitioner focuses on
a) Member role and functions in groups
b) Group problem-solving and decision-making
c) Group norms and growth
6) ------------------------- Orientation emphasis upon increased
opportunity and use of human
potential.
a) Humanistic
b) Performance
c) Scientific
d) Collaborative
7) The change Agent must be the ----------------- within an
organization.
a) Leader
b) Consultant
c) Manager
8) Organization uses ----------------------- techniques to increase
their effectiveness and their
adaptability to changing conditions.
a) Management
b) Human Resource Development
c) Organizational Development
d) Change management
9) In the process consultant model, the consultant works with
leader and group to diagnose
-----------------------------for reaching desired goals.
a) Strengths and weaknesses,
b) Problems and opportunities,
c) Development of action plans and methods,
10) _____ is the process that adapts employees to the
organization's culture.
a) Training
b) Mentoring
c) Socialization
d) Communicating
Solution
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Quiz # 2 Spring 2008
1) Which of the following is not one of the crucial

contingencies that affect an organization's
design process?
The organization's environment
The technology used by the organization
The organization's founder
The organization's human resources
2) Management developed by manager who actively seek a
strong cooperative relationship
with their employees is:
Knowledge Management
Learning Management
Participative Management
None of the given options
3) Group effective has two dimension ------------ and quality of
work life.
Performance
Feed back
Group process
Team building
4) -----------------involves moving from the existing
organizational state to the desired future
state.
Change
Development
Planning
Management
5) The degree of responsibility independence and opportunity
for exercising initiative for
members of organization in known as individual:
Liberty
Independence
Autonomy
Freedom
6) Culture is most likely to be a liability when:
It increases consistency of behavior.
The environment is dynamic.
Management is incompetent.
It reduces ambiguity.
7) ------------------------ can pose ethical dilemmas for helping
relationship between OD
practitioners and organization members.
Incentive
Dissatisfaction
Coercion
Reward
8) ---------------- change involves making the actual changes that
will move the organization to
another level of response.
Disconfirmation
Movement
Refreezing
Induction of guilt
9) ---------------------- seeks both a high degree of effectiveness
and a high degree of member
satisfaction, believing that greater effectiveness is possible
when all members are involved
and problem-solving is done through teamwork.
The Persuader Style
The Analyzer Style
The Stabilizer Style
The pathfinder style
10) ---------------------------- occurs when OD practitioners claim
that an intervention will
produce results that are unreasonable for the change program
or the situation.
Misuse of Data
Misrepresentation
Magnitude
Democratic value
Spring Semester 2008

Organization Development
(HRM 628)
Quiz No. 3
Q.1 “Leave single” parents are the implications and needs of:
a) Age
b) Gender
c) Disability
d) Sexual orientation
Q.2 The stage involves leveling off and holding on to career successes
is belongs to:
a) Establishment stage
b) Advancement stage
c) Maintenance stage
d) Withdrawal stage
Q.3 Which one of the following is not the factor of value expectancy
theory?
a) Durability
b) Equity
c) Visibility
d) Diagnosis
Q.4 Which one of the following is the oldest and prevalent approach of
work design?
a) Socio-technical
b) Engineering
c) Motivational
d) Network approach
Q.5 Total quality management is the set of guiding principles for
continuous
improvement based on:
a) Customer satisfaction
b) Teamwork
c) Empowerment of individual
Q.6 __________ operate in conjunction with the formal organization.
a) Parallel Structures
b) Horizontal structures
c) Vertical structures
d) Line structures
Q.7 “Fundamentally rethink the way work gets done” is the application
of
a) Reengineering
b) Matrix organization
c) Downsizing
d) Network organization
Q.8 “Uncertain and changing environments” is the contingency of:
a) Self-Contained-Unit Organization
b) Functional organization
c) Matrix organization
d) Process base formed organization
Q.9 __________ is a packaged program that organizations can purchase
and train
members to use.
a) Inter-group relations
b) Confrontation meeting
c) Large-group intervention
d) Blake and Mouton’s Grid
Q.10 The improving the team’s functioning is the aim of:
a) Family group diagnostic meetings
b) Family group team building meeting
c) Family group third party intervention
d) Family group third party implementation
Q.11 Interpersonal conflict often occurs in iterative, cyclical stages
known as
__________.
a) Episode
b) Issues
c) Consequences
Q.12 In Johari Window, ------------------------- includes behaviors, thoughts
and feelings
that both the person and others know.
a) The Public Area
b) The Blind Area
c) The Closed Area
d) The Unknown Area
Q.13 Which one of the following identities related to intervention
charactertic?
a) Programmability
b) Unionization
c) Socialization
d) Knowledge
Q.14 Which one of the following activities involve for providing useful
implementation
and evaluation feedback?
a) Selecting the appropriate variable
b) Statistical analysis
c) Alpha change
d) Beta change
Q.15 __________is concerned with providing feed-back to practitioners
and
organization members about the progress and impact of interventions.
a) Evaluation
b) Institutionalization
c) Feedback
d) Diagnosis
Q.16 __________ activity involves identifying key people and groups
whose
commitment is needed for change to occur and formulating a strategy
for gaining
their support.
a) Commitment planning
b) Activity planning
c) Desired future state
d) Identify key stakeholder
Q.17 Which one of the following activities involves in “motivating
change” for
effective change management?
a) Creating readiness for change
b) Describe the core ideology
c) Assessing change agent power
d) Activity planning
Q.18 __________ involves goal setting, performance appraisal, and
reward systems
that align member work behavior with business strategy, employee
involvement, and
workplace technology.
a) Human Resource Management
b) Performance management
c) Management By objective
d) Knowledge management
Q.19 "To preserve and improve human life” is the mission statement
of:
• Walt Disney
• Wall Markt
• Merck
• Mary kay cosmetic
Q.20 __________ is information regarding the actual performance or the
results of the
system.
a) Feedback
b) Evaluation
c) Measurement
d) Diagnosis
Spring Semester 2008

Organization Development
(HRM 628)
Quiz No. 4
Q.1 __________ refers to the reaction of people to their environments and
involves both physiological and psychological responses to environmental
conditions, causing people to change or adjust their behaviors.
a) Pressure
b) Stress
c) Fretfulness
d) Anxiety
Q.2 The outset of a career when people are generally uncertain about
their
competence and potential is known as __________.
a) Establishment stage
b) Advancement stage
c) Maintenance stage
d) Withdrawal stage
Q.3 __________ is a feedback system that involves the direct evaluation of
individual or work group performance by a supervisor, manager, or peers.
a) Performance appraisal
b) Performance management
c) Performance reward
d) Performance objection
Q.4 Which one of the following is the most recent approach of work
design?
a) Socio-technical
b) Engineering
c) Motivational
d) Network approach
Q.5 Total quality management is the most recent and comprehensive
approach to:
a) Employee involvement
b) Employee commitment
c) Performance management
d) Employee intervention
Q.6 “Form a steering committee” is the application of:
a) Parallel structure
b) Employee involvement
c) Union-Management Project
d) Matrix organization
Q.7 __________is a temporary constellation of organizations brought
together to
pursue a single purpose. Once accomplished, the network disbands.
a) Opportunity network
b) Internal market network
c) Inter market network
d) Vertical market network
Q.8 “Interdepartmental dependencies” is advantages of:
a) Self-Contained-Unit Organization
b) Functional organization
c) Matrix organization
d) Process base formed organization
Q.9 Interventions are aimed at diagnosing and addressing important
organizational
level processes, such as conflict, the coordination of organizational units
and
diversity is known as __________.
a) Inter-group relations
b) Confrontation meeting
c) Large-group intervention
d) Blake and Mouton’s Grid
Q.10 The identifying group problem is aim of:
a) Family group diagnostic meetings
b) Family group team building meeting
c) Family group third party intervention
d) Family group third party implementation
Q.11 __________ are aimed at the process, content, or structure of the
group.
a) Group intervention
b) Individual intervention
c) Basic process intervention
d) Process intervention
Q.12 Which one of the following is NOT type of interpersonal relationships
and
group dynamics?
a) Communication
b) Process consultation
c) Third-party intervention
d) Team building
Q.13 Which one of the following identities related to organization
charactertic?
a) Congruence
b) Goal specify
c) Commitment
d) Performance
Q.14 Which one of the following activities involves for providing useful
implementation and evaluation feedback?
a) Designing good measures
b) Alpha change
c) Beta change
d) Gamma change
Q.15 __________ involves making a particular change a permanent part of
the
organization’s normal functioning.
a) Institutionalization
b) Evaluation
c) Measurement
d) Diagnosis
Q.16 __________ involves the making a road map for change citing specific
activities and events that must occur if the transition is to be successful.
a) Activity planning
b) Commitment planning
c) Sustaining momentum
d) Reinforcing new behavior
Q.17 Which of the following activities involve in “creating a vision” for
effective
change management?
a) Assessing change agent power
b) Constructing the envisioned future
c) Provide resources for change
d) Commitment planning
Q.18 __________ should be specific, measurable and attainable
a) Objectives
b) Goals
c) Strategies
Q.19 Which of the following is the identity of input at organization level of
comparison planned change model?
a) General environment
b) Strategy
c) Organization effectiveness
d) Technology
Q.20 __________ consist of human or other resources, such as information,
energy,
and materials, coming into the system.
a) Input
b) Output
c) Transformation
d) Feedback
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QUIZ 1
SPRING SEMESTER 2009
HRM//MGMT628
DUE DATE APRIL 9,, 2009
Instructions:
1. The solution of the quiz should be provided in the tabular
format as
follows:
Q No. Selected Option
1a
2c
3a
4d
2. Upload the solution file in MS Office Word format. Zero will
be marked
if uploaded in any other format.
3. No quiz will be accepted after due date and time.
4. In case of cheating, no credit will be given to students who
are involved
in.
5. In case of any failure with system, you can send us
solution file via email
at [email protected] and [email protected] (in
the course code
you are enrolled) within due time.
QUIZ 1
1. A __________ may be defined as an unwritten agreement
between individuals
and the organization of which they are members.
a. Behavioral contract
b. Social contract
c. Psychological contract
d. Peripheral contract
2. Which one of the following is the part of contemporary
action research?
a. Choose positive objective
b. Problem identification
c. Joint action planning
d. Unfreezing
3. The __________ is someone not previously associated with the
client system.
a. External practitioner
b. Internal practitioner
c. Chief executive officer
d. Organization development
4. The goal of, which of the following organization development
practicing style, is
neither effectiveness nor participant satisfaction?
a. Cheerleader Style
b. Analyzer Style
c. Persuader Style
d. Stabilizer Style
5. Members keep their true feelings about selffulfillment and
organizational
effectiveness to themselves, assuming that sharing
information may threaten
personally desired outcomes in which of the following
practitioner-client
relationship mode?
a. The apathetic mode
b. The gamesmanship mode
c. The charismatic mode
d. The consensus mode
6. Which of the following statement is true about “consensus
mode” of
practitioner-client relationship?
a. A limited number of members openly share ideas and feelings with
the rest, based
on perceptions of leadership
b. Members continuously share perceptions and feelings
openly both on selffulfillment
and organizational effectiveness
c. Members keep their true feelings about selffulfillment and
organizational
effectiveness to themselves, assuming that sharing information may
threaten
personally desired outcomes
d. Members keep their true ideas about self-fulfillment and
organization
effectiveness to themselves assuming that sharing this information will
not make
any difference
7. Organizational Development is a planned change in an
organization’s culture
through the utilization of __________ technology, research and
theory.
a. Management Science
b. Behavioral Science
c. Human Science
d. All of the given options
8. Which of the following is not necessary to be exhibited in a
successful change
practitioner?
a. Empathy
b. Knowledge of the theories
c. Methods within the consultant's own discipline
d. Straight forwardness
9. __________ occurs when information gathered during the OD
process is used
punitively. Large amounts of information are invariably
obtained during the
entry and diagnostic phases of OD.
a. Misuse of data
b. Democratic value
c. Misrepresentation
d. Coercion
10. “Organization development practitioner should consult the
relevant employees”.
This is an example of which of the following contracting
process?
a. Describing
b. Mutual Expectations
c. Time and Resources
d. Ground Rules
QUIZ 2
SPRING SEMESTER 2009
HRM//MGMT628
DUE DATE APRIL 15,, 2009
Instructions:
1. The solution of the quiz should be provided in the tabular
format as
follows:
Q No. Selected Option
1a
2c
3a
4d
2. Upload the solution file in MS Office Word format. Zero will
be marked
if uploaded in any other format.
3. No quiz will be accepted after due date and time.
4. In case of cheating, no credit will be given to students who
are involved
in.
5. In case of any failure with system, you can send us
solution file via email
at [email protected] and [email protected] (in
the course code
you are enrolled) within due time.
QUIZ 2
1. __________ occurs when organizational development
practitioners claim that
an intervention will produce results that are unreasonable for
the change
program or the situation.
a. Ethical Dilemmas
b. Misrepresentation
c. Coercion
d. Spirit of inquiry
2. “Decreasing number of customers” represents what in
organization
development process?
a. A rapid change in organization
b. Diagnosis of problem
c. A specific problem
d. A general problem
3. “Organization development practitioner should consult the
relevant
employees”. This is an example of which of the following
contracting
process?
a. Describing
b. Mutual Expectations
c. Time and Resources
d. Ground Rules
4. Which of the following statement is true for development
oriented diagnosis?
a. Managers are involved in organization development when
the
organization is not facing a problem
b. Managers are involved in organization development when the
organization
is facing small problems
c. Managers are involved in organization development when the
organization
is facing small but not significant problems
d. Managers are involved in organization development when the
organization
is facing major problems
5. In organizational systems, alignment refers to which of the
following?
a. A concept that a manager can use varying degrees of inputs into the
organization
b. Development of a variety of satisfactory options
c. Transforming variety of options in a variety of ways to obtain
satisfactory
outputs
d. A characteristic of the relationship between two or more
parts
6. “How well the organization has met the expectations of
different groups”
represents which of the following?
a. Stakeholder satisfaction
b. Productivity
c. Financial outputs
d. Nonprofit outputs
7. Which one of the following is the component of output at
group level
diagnosis?
a. Goal clarity
b. Team effectiveness
c. Team functioning
d. Group composition
8. Coordination is most important for groups performing which
of the following
tasks?
a. Independent tasks
b. Interdependent tasks
c. Mutually exclusive tasks
d. Self regulatory tasks
9. Which one of the following is NOT the component of design
component at
individual level?
a. Skill variety
b. Task identity
c. Individual effectiveness
d. Task significant
10. “Responses can be quantified and easily summarized” is
advantage of:
a. Interview
b. Questionnaire
c. Observation
d. Unobtrusive measures

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Roll NO ------------------------ Marks 10

Student’s Name ------------------------

1) Visible Manifestations of Culture is

Quiz No.2 Fall2007

1) In intervention a frame work for carrying out helping

HRM 628 Organizational Development

1) Employee involvement seeks to increase members input into

2. Developing a marketing strategy for a new product is an example of which of

a. Purchase of Expertise Model

a. Purchase of Expertise Model

5. A small, unstructured group in which participants learn from their own

7. Which of the following is not an example of OD?

8. A structural/ behavioral focus is required to bring _____________ change in

a. Exploitative authoritative system

HRM 628 Organizational Developments

1) The process of developing and implementing an appropriate

1) Which of the following is not one of the crucial

Spring Semester 2008

Spring Semester 2008

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