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  1. Chain Reaction Effect:

  2. Changing:

  3. Charisma:

  4. Double Loop Learning:

  5. Hawthorne Effect:

  6. Homeostasis:

  7. Organizational Learning Curve For Change:

  8. Proactive Roles:

  9. Psychic Costs:

  10. Reactive Roles:

  11. Refreezing:

  12. Resistance to Change:

  13. Roethlisberger's "X" Chart:

  14. Single Loop Learning:

  15. Transformational Leaders:

  16. Unfreezing:

  17. Vision:

  18. Work Change:

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Managing Change

Chain Reaction Effect:

Situation in which a change (or other condition) that directly affects only one or a few persons may lead to a reaction from many people, even hundreds or thousands, become of their mutual interest in it.

Changing:

The process of learning new ideas and practices.

Charisma:

A leadership characteristic that inspires and influences employees to take ealy and sustanied action to carry out one's vision.

Double Loop Learning:

The process of using current information about a change to prepare participants to manage future changes even more effectively.

Hawthorne Effect:

Concept that the mere observation of a group tends to change the way the group operates.

Homeostasis:

Self concerning mechanism in a group by which energies are called up to restore balance whenever change threatens a group.

Organizational Learning Curve For Change:

Period of adaption that follows change and typically shows a decline in effectiveness before a group reaches a new equilibrium.

Proactive Roles:

Anticipating events, initiating change, and tking control of one's destiny.

Psychic Costs:

Costs that affect a person's inner self or psyche.

Reactive Roles:

Responding to events, adapting to change, and tempering its consequences.

Refreezing:

Term aapplying to situations involving change and referring to a person acting to integrate what has been learned into actual practice.

Resistance to Change:

Desire not to accept a change or to accept it only partially.

Roethlisberger's "X" Chart:

Model in the form of an "X" showing how attitudes affect responses to change.

Single Loop Learning:

The process of adapting to changes which are imposed upon employees.

Transformational Leaders:

Managers who initate bold strategic changes to position the organization for its future.

Unfreezing:

Term applying to situations that involve change and referring to the act of casting aside old ideas and practices so that new ones can be learned.

Vision:

A challenging and crystallized long&-range portrait of want the organization and its members can and should be&- a possible (and desirable) image of the future.

Work Change:

Any alternation that occurs in the work environment.