A Manager Who Uses Participation and Involvement in Order to Overcome

question 84

Multiple Choice

A manager who uses participation and involvement in order to overcome employee resistance to change will:

• A) threaten resistors with a variety of undesirable consequences.
• B) try to covertly influence others by providing information selectively in favour of the desired change.
• C) allow others to contribute ideas and help design and implement the change.
• D) provide encouragement and training beforehand about the change.
• E) use discussion, presentations and demonstrations to educate people beforehand about the change.

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Definitions:

Psychodynamic Therapy

Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight.

Eclectic Approach

An approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

A form of psychotherapeutic treatment that focuses on changing patterns of thinking or behavior that are responsible for people's difficulties, thereby changing how they feel.

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach founded by Freud, emphasizing the exploration of the unconscious mind to understand behavior.