MTG 300 Quiz 7

Which of the following is a component of a creative work environment that encourages creativity?

Absence of organizational impediments

Which of the following is NOT an organizational impediment to creativity in a work environment?

Challenging work

Levio is a company that makes mobile apps and has decided to become a market leader in the field. Levio can encourage the development of a culture where workers perceive that new ideas are welcomed by offering challenging work and supervisory encouragement. In other words, the company can create a(n) ____.

Creative work environments

Which of the following is a characteristic of discontinuous change?

Design competition

Which of the following is an aspect of the experiential approach to innovation?

Design iteration

Fully functional change occurs when incremental improvements are made to a dominant technological design. In a fully functional change, the improved version of the technology is fully backward compatible with the older version.

False

Organizational innovation is defined as "doing things differently" inside an organization.

False

When the first cell phone was released, only a few people could afford to buy it. Over the years, mobile manufacturers improved the phone designs and features and also reduced their cost to make them more affordable. This signaled the shift to the _____ stage of the technology cycle.

Incremental change

Which of the following is NOT one of the basic methods for managing resistance to change?

Micromanagement

Which of the following is NOT one of the components of creative work environments?

Organizational impediments

Nearly all technology cycles follow the typical _____ pattern of innovation.

S-curve

Which of the following is one of the sources of resistance to change?

Self-interest

Which of the following is an aspect of the compression approach to innovation?

Supplier involvement

In terms of innovation streams, what occurred when customers purchased flat-screen computer monitors to replace the older, bulkier monitors?

Technological substitution

Technological innovation not only makes it possible to duplicate the benefits obtained from a company's distinctive advantage but also quickly creates an opportunity to turn a company's competitive advantage into a competitive disadvantage.

True

Which of the following is one of the three steps in the basic process of managing organizational change outlined by Kurt Lewin?

Unfreezing

A technology _____ begins with the birth of a new technology and ends when that technology reaches its limits and dies as it is replaced by a newer, substantially better technology.

cycle

Organizational development _____.

emphasizes employee participation in diagnosing, solving, and evaluating problems

Which of the following is one of the three steps in the basic process of managing organizational change outlined by Kurt Lewin?

unfreezing