Question

-Final 10/43 10. Melissa is the CEO of a company that is experiencing an employee morale issue. Chris is an OD consultant that the company has contracted to help address the issue. Instead of conducting interviews as a first step in the data gathering process, Chris decides to tour the company's headquarters building. Why did Chris likely make the decision to observe the physical location where employees work? O It is less obtrusive and might provide valuable data to use during the interview process (such as differences in office managers versus employees) It makes it easier to interpret the underlying meaning of the data collected (hail conversations with employees can answer Chris questions) It minimizes the inherent biases that occur when interviewing subjects (employees are approached at random and asked questions) it will make employees more open to discussing questions during a follow-up interview process (such as what it is like to work at the site) Next Type here to search O

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Answer 1

This approach taken up by the OD consultant, Chris is to understand the employees and the organization more deeply. Chris is an external agent and his services have been hired by the organization to resolve the low morale issues in the organization. By visiting the organizationand individual workers during their work, he could collect first-hand, unfiltered information about the reason for their grievances.He is making himself known such that the employees are comfortable when they formally meet him for an interview.

Therefore, answer is D: It will make employees more open to discussing questions a follow-up interview process (such as what it is like to work at the site).