HU676 (Prof. Daulat)
TM615 (Prof. Piva)
ST502 (Prof. Haroutiounian)
TM610 (Prof. De Nault)
Potpourri
100

This theory states that an organization and its outputs should be aligned to the environment in which it exists.

What is Contingency Theory?

100

This is the "intelligent" way of setting both performance or outcome goals and learning or skill building goals.

What is SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-based?

100

This framework assumes that key organization design factors include strategy; structure; processes & links; rewards; and people.

What is Galbraith's STAR model?

100

This theory states that organizations grow through stages of development.

What is Organizational Life Cycle Theory?

100

Because qualitative research is inherently _____, it causes many researchers anxiety.

What is ambiguous?

200

Organizational culture, organizational learning, and the organization's environment are part of this organizational characteristic.

What is Organizational Readiness?

200

When you believe you have the ability to achieve a specific task, which affects your perceived level of goal challenge and your goal commitment.

What is self-efficacy?

200

Schein (and others) believe we engage in this activity with a client from the moment of first contact.

What is Intervention?

200

When a company is increasing in complexity due to growth and experiencing increasing errors and emergencies.

Whitewater stage of OLC

200

What is the OD rookie mistake in regards to Participatory Action Research and Appreciative Inquiry?

Thinking that PAR is bad.

300

This is a cyclical model of learning by doing with others.

What is Participatory Action Research?

300

It is debated whether attaching a ranking system to this increases performance or decreases engagement.

What is feedback?

300

These are the three levels in which OD practitioners intervene in organizations.

What are individual, group, and system levels?

300

A company known for it's Culture Deck and commitment to candid transparency?

What is Netflix?

300

The answer OD practitioners give when asked about the most effective way to design a team.

What is "it depends"?

400

Discover, Dream, Design, Destiny

What is Appreciative Inquiry (4-D model)?

400

The 3 domains of learning involving knowledge, attitudes, and skills included in Bloom's Taxonomies of Learning.

What are Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor domains?

400

This concept comes in many forms and is usually enacted as a social defense to the anxiety of change in the client system.

A: What is resistance?

400

This model is a holistic way of looking at the alignment of many components of the organization.

What is Nadler and Tushman's Congruence Model? 

400

This model by Michael Porter identifies and analyzes competitive forces that shape every industry.

What is Porter's Five Forces Model?

500

The method by which the value or effectiveness of something is established.

What is evaluation?

500

This includes the four levels of assessing reaction, learning, behavior, and results that parallel Bloom's taxonomy of learning domains.

What is Kirkpatrick's Assessment Model?

500

According to Schein, this concept is like an iceberg and includes artifacts, espoused values & beliefs, and basic underlying assumptions.

A: What is culture?

500

This is the stage in the organizational life cylce when leaders balance the right amount of systems and processes with energized creativity and informed risk-taking.

What is Predictable Success or Produce and Sustain?

500

This model allows us to analyze in more detail the complexity of what happens inside the mind, the traps we fall into, and how this makes our interventions more or less effective.

What is the ORJI Cycle?

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