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Dunmore Hospital Trust has a pressing need to cut costs and must implement change within six months. Its change leaders have strong authority, but staff have little awareness of any problem. Applying the Change Kaleidoscope, what do these conditions most strongly imply?

A more directive or coercive approach is likely to be needed. The six-month deadline, strong leader power and low staff readiness leave little room for slow participation. The cost is a greater risk of resistance and low commitment, which the leaders should manage.

  1. AA more directive, coercive approach is likely to be needed given the short time frame and low readiness, though it risks resistanceCorrect
  2. BA slow, participative approach is clearly preferable because the leaders have high power
  3. CA collaborative approach is the only feasible option because staff readiness is low
  4. DNo design choices are available because time is the only contextual feature that matters

Explanation

Tight time, strong leader power and low readiness push towards a directive style, and possibly coercion. A participative approach takes too long under the six-month constraint. The Kaleidoscope treats context features as influencing design choices, not as eliminating them, and the risk is resistance and loss of commitment.

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