Topic: Business Organization & Management, Chapter 8: Organizing

Question 1 (1 point)

Tweaking a machines gear in order to decrease the number of employees for maximum efficiency is an example of:

Question 1 options:

	reverse innovation
	technology change
	status quo
	organizational change

Question 2 (1 point)

When a company allows the public to contribute to their innovations via social media, or when an organization uses social media to tap into ideas and trends from around the world , it would be called

Question 2 options:

	Horizontal Linkage
	acquisition
	crowdsourcing
	open innovations

Question 3 (1 point)

When the engineers at Apple travel all over the world, outside of their boundaries, to find and develop new ideas, and to examine and stay on top of all the newest developments, this is an example of:

Question 3 options:

	acquisition
	open innovation
	external coordination
	crowdsourcing

Question 4 (1 point)

Facebook purchases Instagram and Facebook in order to expand and innovate social media experiences and processes. This is an example of:

Question 4 options:

	skunkworks
	crowdsourcing
	innovation via acquisition
	open innovations

Question 5 (1 point)

Changing occurs when individuals experiment with new behavior and learn new skills to be used in the workplace. It is sometimes referred to as intervention, where the change agent implements a specific plan for training managers and employees.

Question 5 options:

	True
	False

Question 6 (1 point)

When a corporation creates a separate, small, informal, highly autonomous, and often highly secretive, innovative and talented group specifically tasked with developing breakthrough radical ideas, it is called:

Question 6 options:

	skunkworks
	New-Venture Funding
	acquisition
	open innovations

Question 7 (1 point)

When employees finally incorporate new values, attitudes, and behaviors, the changes become institutionalized. This is an example of:

Question 7 options:

	success
	reinforcement
	implementation
	refreezing

Question 8 (1 point)

Air BnB entered the market in 2008 with the concept of residential homes as hotel rooms. It has turned the hotel and resort market upside down. Uber enter the market in 2009 with the concept of personal cars as public transportation. It turned the taxi industry upside down. These dramatic changes in the market are examples of:

Question 8 options:

	uncertainty
	disruptive innovation
	understanding
	status quo

Question 9 (1 point)

Which of the following is not an example of Organizational Development techniques:

Question 9 options:

	large group interventions
	survey feedback
	freezing funds
	team building

Question 10 (1 point)

Xerox uses a production facility equipped to make their regular as well as their new mini printer. The factory utilizes the flexible approach, meaning new ideas and product improvements can easily and quickly be integrated. Xerox managers encourage flexibility and freedom to innovate and propose new ideas with creative departments and other mechanisms. This is an example of:

Question 10 options:

	ambidextrous approach
	organizations
	disruptive innovation
	reverse innovation

Question 11 (1 point)

The adaptation of a new idea or behavior by an organization.

Question 11 options:

	Uncertainty
	Management
	Interpretation
	Organizational Change

Question 12 (1 point)

Innovative companies tend to be top-down, using new ideas that only come from the CEO or Board Members.

Question 12 options:

	True
	False

Question 13 (1 point)

The Horizontal Linkage Model is an approach that believes geographical separation of production, design and development teams is the newest and best way to innovate because it prevents communication and creates healthy competition.

Question 13 options:

	True
	False

Question 14 (1 point)

Kurt Lewin first proposed that change was the result of the competition between driving and restraining forces. Driving forces can be though of a problems or opportunities, while restraining forces are the various barriers to change. This theory is called the

Question 14 options:

	Implementation Device
	Institutional Goal Theory
	Force-Field Analysis
	Organizational Development

Question 15 (1 point)

Xerox creates a mini-printer for market and sale in China. The cost is about a third of what Xerox products cost in the US. The new mini-printer has been more successful than any other product in the last five years . This is an example of:

Question 15 options:

	change
	reverse innovation
	ambidextrous
	organizations