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Management 3000 Exam 2
Segment 10
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Management
Undergraduate 3
03/19/2012

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Term
Change Leader
Definition
A change agent who takes leadership responsibility for changing the existing pattern of behavior of another person or social system
Term
Change
Definition
viewed on a negative scale
Term
Characteristics of a Change Leader
Definition
Confident of ability
Willing to take risks
Seizes opportunity
Expects surprise
Makes things happen
Calculated Risks
Tanner Brandell
Term
Characteristics of a Status Quo Manager
Definition
Threatened by change
Bothered by uncertainty
Prefers predictability
Supports the status quo
Waits for things to happen
Matt Seidel
Term
Who is gay?
Definition
Tanner Brandell
Tim Waid
Term
Top-Down Change
Definition
Initiatives come from senior management. Success depends on support of middle-level and lower-level workers
also known as a mandate
Term
Bottom-Up Change
Definition
Initiatives for change come from any and all parts of the organization, not just top management. Made possible by employee empowerment, employee involvement and employee participation
known as revolution
Term
Incremental Change
Definition
Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance. (Small change: Blinking left hand turn signal in CoMo)
Term
Transformational Change
Definition
Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization. (Complete change: Bike Blv, Concrete wall down College Ave.)
Term
Why people don't like change
Definition
Fear of the unknown
Disrupted Habits
Loss of confidence
loss of control
poor timing
work overload
loss of face
lack of purpose
Term
Take 5 minutes to look at Slide _____
Definition
#94
Term
Phases of Planned Change
Definition
Unfreezing
Changing
Refreezing
Improvising
Term
Unfreezing
Definition
phase during which a situation is prepared for change
Term
Changing
Definition
the phase where a planned change actually takes place
Term
Refreezing
Definition
phase at which change is stabilized
Term
Improvisational Change
Definition
Makes continual adjustments as changes are being implemented
Term
Force-coercion Strategy
Definition
Pursues change through formal authority and/or the use of rewards or punishments
Term
Rational Persuasion Strategies
Definition
pursues change through empirical data and rational argument
Term
Shared Power Strategies
Definition
pursues change by participation in assessing change needs, values, and goals
Term
radical transparency
Definition
belief that everyone should/could know everything about everyone
Term
managers target what kind of change?
Definition
incremental
Term
heuristic tasks
Definition
no correct answer, open ended assignments,
Term
algorithmic tasks
Definition
rule based, manualized, routine, and assembly line type shit
Term
what type of people do managers look for?
Definition
self directed
motivated
skilled over being told/forced
Term
how is business culture changing
Definition
moving to respecting people instead of replacing people
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