Question: I know you can only answer one but I will gurantee a thumbs up and boost if all are answered. 1 . The diagnostic phase

I know you can only answer one but I will gurantee a thumbs up and boost if all are answered.
1. The diagnostic phase in an OD program leads to _____.
a. a change in technology
b. survey feedback
c. a change in people and structure
d. intervention strategies
e. questionnaires and surveys
2. Structural change strategies _____.
a. introduce new machinery and automation to the job
b. modify elements such as authority and span of control of the organization
c. are normally highly successful as they improve the morale and motivation of members
d. attempt to improve the level of morale, motivation, and commitment of members
e. all of the above
3. The factor to determine if a change strategy is an OD strategy is _____.
a. the credentials of the practitioner
b. the process used to carry out the strategy
c. if the strategy was developed after the diagnostic stage
d. if structural, technical, and behavioral strategies are all equally used
e. answers c and d
4. Increasingly, OD practitioners _____.
a. use technological change strategies as they lead to increases in productivity
b. find several intervention strategies that they are more successful and comfortable with
c. place emphasis upon behavioral change strategies
d. practice primarily behavioral and structural including managerial change strategies
e. take an integrated approach to change
5. In addition to analyzing the organizations formal structure, the practitioner must _____.
a. study the overt activity and disregard covert activities
b. interview each of the organizations members
c. consider the interdependence between subsystems
d. disregard overt and cove
6. The iceberg analogy of change proposes that _____.
a. intervention strategies should address both visible and hidden aspects of an organization
b. some members have behaviors and ideas that are frozen or unchangeable
c. the observable elements of an organization can be changed
d. the hidden elements of an organization cannot be changed as they are too deeply rooted in the organizations culture
e. answers c and d
7. Stream analysis begins with _____.
b. surveys and feedback sessions
c. the practitioner planning an intervention strategy for the client system
d. the client and the practitioner identifying key behavioral, structural, and technical interventions that need to be implemented
e. all of the above
8. Intervention strategies can best be described as _____.
a. implementing techniques that have been shown to best bring about change
b. implementing methods that organization questionnaires have shown to be requested by members
c. formulating surveys and questionnaires to determine the extent of problems
d. planned and directed means to improve the functioning of the client system
e. successful when they have considered behavioral consequences
9. In selecting an appropriate intervention, the practitioner and client should consider if _____.
a. the costs outweigh the benefits
b. the techniques will be acceptable to the client system
c. there are any potential negative consequences
d. all of the above
e. answers b and c

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