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ssal

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Which organizational development application involves methods like performance appraisals, reward systems, and diversity programs?
 
  A) human process
  B) strategic applications
  C) technostructural
  D) human resource management

Question 2

Both action learning and management games require trainees to work in groups. In a brief essay, explain the similarities and differences between the two management development techniques.
 
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Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Action learning programs give managers and others released time to work analyzing and solving problems in departments other than their own. The basics include carefully selected teams of 5 to 25 members, assigning the teams real-world business problems that extend beyond their usual areas of expertise, and structured learning through coaching and feedback. The employer's senior managers usually choose the projects and decide whether to accept the teams' recommendations. With computerized management games, trainees divide into five- or six-person groups, each of which competes with the others in a simulated marketplace. Each group typically must decide, for example, (1) how much to spend on advertising, (2) how much to produce, (3) how much inventory to maintain, and (4) how many of which product to produce. Usually, the game compresses a two- or three-year period into days, weeks, or months. As in the real world, each company team usually can't see what decisions (such as to boost advertising) the other firms have made, although these decisions do affect their own sales.



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