Increasing the Restraining Forces and Reducing or Removing the Driving

question 97

Multiple Choice

Increasing the restraining forces and reducing or removing the driving forces would:

• A) make the change process more difficult to implement.
• B) remove any resistance to change.
• C) have no effect on the change process.
• D) give the change agent more power in the change process.
• E) make the change process easier to implement.

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Definitions:

Participative Leadership

A leadership style that values the input of team members and stakeholders, involving them in the decision-making process to increase engagement and ownership.

Follower Readiness

The level of a follower's competence and commitment in performing a certain task or role.

Authoritarian Leadership

A leadership style characterized by individual control over all decisions with little input from group members.

Charismatic Leaders

Those leaders who are capable of having a profound and extraordinary effect on followers.