Exam 11: Change Management and Strategic Leadership

Think of a time when a major change initiative at an organization you were or are affiliated with succeeded or failed. Identify possible reasons for the success or failure, and tie them to the three phases of the force-field model-unfreezing, changing, and refreezing.

The underlying tenet of strategic management is that organizations need to formulate strategies to take advantage of external opportunities and to avoid or reduce the negative impact of external threats.

Value is:

The essence of the strategic management process is adapting to change. Discuss.

Comment on this statement: "Google is so successful it does not need to change anything in its strategic framework."

The most distinctive and hard to imitate resource available to firms is knowledge.

A clear and inspiring vision serves all of the following functions EXCEPT:

A manager does not want to spend money on training and development on the excuse that the new skills and capabilities are a waste of resources because they are not required in performing present jobs. This manager is considered to be which of the following?

All of the following are strategies that leaders can use to effectively manage change EXCEPT:

Vision creation should be top management's responsibility.

Which of the following is a phase of the eight-stage model for planned organizational change?

"We intend to become the state's number 1 high-school basketball team this year." This statement is best described by which part of the strategic management process?

The essence of the strategic management process is adapting to change. Discuss.

Explain the importance of strategy evaluation in the strategic management model.

Identify a core competence of an organization you work or worked for. Explain how it differentiates the organization from its competitors.

A popular tool used to measure the effectiveness of the strategic management process is the balance scorecard.

Organizations must take the time to establish ____ objectives.

The underlying tenet of strategic management is that organizations need to formulate strategies to:

In the unfreezing phase of the three stage model of change, the key is to identify the problems or threats facing the organization, creating an urgency for change.

____ change is an alteration in an organization's alignment with its external environment.