Innovation and Change: Chapter review questions (2- 2.5 pages) Management

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PART 1

  • 1) Explain why innovation matters to companies.
  • 2) Discuss the different methods that managers can use to effectively manage innovation in their organizations.
  • 3) How can companies create creative work environments?
  • 4) What is the difference between incremental change and discontinuous change?
  • 5) Discuss why not changing can lead to organizational decline.
  • 6) How do change forces work to bring about change? How do resistance forces work against change forces?
  • 7) How can companies manage resistance to change?
  • 8) What mistakes do managers commonly make when leading change?
  • 9)Discuss the different methods that managers can use to better manage change as it occurs.

PART 2

“Change Agents.” Go to the website of Patti Hathaway, “the change agent,” at http://www.thechangeagent.com.

This is a commercial website that introduces Patti Hathaway as a motivational speaker who can (for a fee) come to a company and help make change work.

1) What exactly does Ms. Hathaway do to accomplish this?

2) What are her qualifications?

3) What are some of the products and services she offers?

4) Can an outside consultant such as Patti really incite and implement change in an organization? Why or why not?

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7 Innovation and Change Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part. LEARNING OUTCOMES 1 Explain why innovation matters to companies 2 Discuss the different methods that managers can use to effectively manage innovation in their organizations 3 Discuss why not changing can lead to organizational decline 4 Discuss the different methods that managers can use to better manage change as it occurs Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 2 • Video Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 3 Why Innovation Matters • Innovation streams: Patterns of innovation over time that can create sustainable competitive advantage • Begins with technological discontinuity • Followed by discontinuous change • Pursued by dominant design • Leads to incremental change Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 4 Methods to Effectively Manage Innovation • Managing sources of innovation • Formation of creative work environments • Creative work environments: Workplace cultures in which workers perceive that new ideas are welcomed, valued, and encouraged • Creation of flow experiences • Flow: Psychological state of effortlessness • People become completely absorbed in what they are doing and time seems to pass quickly Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 5 Exhibit 7.3 Components of Creative Work Environments Source: T. M. Amabile, R. Conti, H. Coon, J. Lazenby, and M. Herron, “Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity,” Academy of Management Journal 39 (1996): 1154–1184. Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 6 Managing Change • Change forces: Produce differences in the form, quality, or condition of an organization over time • Resistance forces: Support the existing conditions in organizations • Resistance to change: Results from self-interest, misunderstanding and distrust, and a general intolerance for change Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 7 Managing Change • Managing organizational change is a basic process of: • Unfreezing: Getting the people affected by change to believe that change is needed • Change intervention: Process used to get workers and managers to change their behaviors and work practices • Refreezing: Supporting and reinforcing new changes so that they stick Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 8 Managing Change • Methods to manage resistance to change • • • • • • Education Communication Participation Negotiation Top-management support Coercion Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 9 Managing Change • What not to do when leading change • Not establishing a great enough sense of urgency • Not creating a powerful enough coalition • Lack of a vision • Under communicating the vision by a factor of ten Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 10 Managing Change • Not removing obstacles to the new vision • Not systematically planning for and creating short-term wins • Declaring victory too soon • Not anchoring changes in the corporation’s culture Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 11 Managing Change • Change tools and techniques • Results-driven change: Created quickly by focusing on the measurement and improvement of results • General Electric workout: Three-day meeting in which managers and employees generate and act on solutions to specific business problems • Organizational development: Philosophy and collection of planned change interventions • Designed to improve an organization’s longterm health and performance Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 12 SUMMARY • Organizational innovation is the successful implementation of creative ideas • To manage innovation, the sources of innovation should be first managed • Organizational decline occurs when companies don’t anticipate or adapt to the pressures that threaten their survival • Change is a function of the forces that promote change and the opposing forces that slow or resist change Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 13 KEY TERMS • • • • • • • • Milestones Multifunctional teams Generational change Change forces Resistance forces Resistance to change Unfreezing Organizational innovation • • • • • Change intervention Refreezing Coercion Results-driven change Organizational development • Change agent • Creative work environments Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 14 Copyright ©2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly acce ssible website, in whole or in part. MGMT8 | CH3 15
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PART 1


1) Explain why innovation matters to companies.

Innovation is important to companies because it allows companies to maintain a competitive
advantage. A company that is innovative will also have distinctive competence. Companies
that do not innovate will not last long since its competitors will outdo it.


2) Discuss the different methods that managers can use to effectively manage innovation
in their organizations.

There are three things that managers can do to manage innovation effectively. They need to
manage the sources of innovation, manage the innovation when t...


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