The Traditional Approach to Organisation Development (OD)

question 11

Multiple Choice

The traditional approach to organisation development (OD) :

• A)focuses on interventions that have been successful in the past
• B)champions professional certification of practitioners
• C)views the major objective of OD to promulgate long-established values
• D)ensures that organisational processes remain commercial-in-confidence
• E)all of the above

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Definitions:

Subjective Well-being

A person's own evaluation of their happiness and satisfaction with life.

Robert Plutchik

A psychologist known for his psychoevolutionary theory of emotion, which categorized emotions into eight primary types.

Primary Emotion

Basic emotions that are hard-wired in the brain and universally recognized, such as happiness, sadness, fear, and anger.

Secondary Emotions

Emotions that are more complex, often derived from basic emotions, and include feelings such as guilt, shame, and pride.