Sinhgad Technical Education Society’s

RMD Sinhgad Technical Institutes Campus

RMD Sinhgad of Management Studies, Warje, Pune
Concurrent Evaluation Batch 2021-23

Semester : 4th
Name : Sarika Pasalkar
Roll no : 115
Div :B
Subject : Organisational Diagnosis & Development
Batch : 2021-2023
1. OD values tend to be:
a) Humanistic
b) Pragmatic
c) Pessimistic
d) Autocratic

2. Systems Theory views organizations as systems.

a) Close
b) Open
c) Both a and b
d) It is situational

3. What are the three steps of Lewin's three-step model?

a) Naive, planned and emergent steps
b) Building blocks, iceberg and river
c) Unfreezing, movement and freezing
d) Beg, steal and borrow

4. Grid organisation development activities developed by

a) Fayle and Taylor
b) Robert blake and jane mouton
c) Bennet and Hailey
d) Porras and Robertson

5. Laboratory training is also known as

a) Transactional analysis
b) T-Group
c) System Theory
d) Organisational Development
6. The role negotiation technique for group intervention was developed by
a) Roger Harrison
b) Bennet and Hailey
c) Both A and B
d) None of the above

7. OD can also be called as a process

a) For performance appraisal
b) For change of people
c) For teaching of people
d) All of the above
8. Three step model developed by
a) George Litwin
b) Kurt Lewin
c) Warner Burke
d) Robert Balke

9. Chris argyris contributed in the area of

a) Single loop and double loop
b) Participation and empowerment
c) Systems theory
d) Change management

10. A person who initiates, stimulates, or facilitates a change program is called

a) Organisation development manager
b) Organisation development practitioner
c) Organisation development stimulator
d) Organisation development facilitator
11. Going beyond the surface changes to transform the underlying assumption and values
governing organisation behaviours is the study of which of the following discipline?
a) Organisational behaviour
b) Organisational development
c) Organisational configuration
d) Organisational theory and design

12. Which one the following in NOT the part of Lewin’s change model?
a) Unfreezing
b) Refreezing
c) Moving
d) Problem identification

13. The theory of the first and the second order changes was propounded by:
a) Warner Burke
b) George Litwin
c) Bothe A and B
d) Warner Burke and Kurt Lewin

14. Sociotechnical systems theory was developed by

a) Eric Trist
b) Fred Emery
c) Eric Trist and Fred Emery
d) Eric Trist, Fred Emery and Rensis Likert

15. The parallel learning structures were introduced by

a) Dale Zand
b) The history does not have much evidence of its founders
c) Garvase bushe and Abraham shani
d) None of the options is correct
16. In general, the more stable the organisation’s environment, the ………. Complex its
strategy and the more skilled its workforce, the ………. Likely that the organisation
will use a formal organisational structure.
a) More: more
b) More: less
c) Less: more
d) Less: less

17. Socio-technical system (STS) theory was developed in

a) 1963
b) 1960
c) 1971
d) 1988

18. Which of the following is not included in the techniques of quality circles?
a) Management by objective
b) Sampling and charting methods
c) Cause and effect diagrams
d) Brainstorming processes

19. Hackman theories in OD are related to

a) Goal-setting
b) Job Enrichment
c) Equity
d) None of above

20. Socio-Technical systems projects tend to feature:

a) Formation of autonomous work groups
b) Grouping of core tasks
 c) Training of group members in multiple skills
d) All of the above

21. ………. Consists of small group of employees who meet voluntarily to identify and
solve productivity problem.
a) Quality circle
b) Total quality management
c) Organisational development
d) MBO

22. Work re—designs OD intervention designed by

a) Richard hackman and greg Oldham
b) Eric Trist
c) Fred Emery
d) Edgar Schein

23. The confrontation meeting was first outline by

a) Cooperrider
b) Robert R. Blake
c) Beckhard
d) Jane S. Mouton

24. ………. Is designed to help the client organisation to identify and diagnose major
problems encountered in achieving its objectives.
a) Work re-design
b) Survey Feedback
c) Re-engineering
d) Stream analysis