A Highly Adaptive Organisation Can Become One That Is Designed

question 13

Multiple Choice

A highly adaptive organisation can become one that is designed for continuous adaptation through problem solving, innovation and learning. This type of organisation is known as a:

• A) new age organisation.
• B) matrix organisation.
• C) learning organisation.
• D) change management organisation.
• E) contemporary organisation.

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Definitions:

Broaden-And-Build Model

A theory in positive psychology suggesting that positive emotions broaden one's awareness and encourage novel, varied, and exploratory thoughts and actions.

Drive Reduction Theory

A psychological theory that posits that motivation is rooted in the biological need to reduce internal drives, such as hunger or thirst, returning the organism to a state of homeostasis.

Circumplex Model

A model that describes human emotions as existing along two main dimensions: valence (positive to negative) and arousal (high to low).

Valence

In psychology, valence refers to the intrinsic attractiveness(good-ness) or averseness(bad-ness) of an event, object, or situation.