Exam 8: Managing Power, politics and Decision-Making in Organizations

The administration of rules that give managerial discretion to managers while reinforcing the strength of centralized authorities because delegates know that their obligation is to act creatively within the system of authority is descriptive of ______.

In what ways are power and politics embedded at the core of managing and organizations?

According to your textbook why did William Starbuck turn decision making theory on its head?

In chapter 8 of your textbook,games characterized by conflict that is moderate,pervasive,and relatively stable,and that can be found in regulatory agencies are termed ______.

Mintzberg identifies several types of political games members of organizations play.What term does he use to refer to games in which usually lower status participants seek to externally expose illegitimacy to affect internal policy or strategy changes?

Which of the following are central to the concept of organizational politics?

Which of the following are characteristics of Resource Dependency Theory?

Which one of the following statements is NOT related to the concept of 'satisficing'?

James Barker argues that ______ occurs where there is substantial consensus about values,high-level coordination,and a degree of self-management by members of an organization.

Mintzberg identifies several types of political games played by actors in organizations.What term does he use to refer to games in which lower status participants play against the dominant elites?

If an organization is typified and dominated by one point of view,reinforced through a strong organizational culture and little,if no,resistance then ______ is said to have occurred.

Zuboff's concept by which organizational elites consolidate various sources of electronic information about organizational members is known as ______.

What is the theory that claims power emerges out of the sub-units ability to influence decision-making relating to the allocation of scarce resources in an organization,and as a result,these sub-units attract even more resources?

In chapter 8 of your textbook,it is argued that simply possessing a scarce resource is not enough to exercise power,and that we must also understand the importance of ______ as a basis of power.

Which statement below best fits your textbook's description of 'resistance'?

What are the features of total institutions? How might analysis of power in total institutions inform analysis of power in organizations more generally?

What conclusion can be drawn from Stanley Milgram's experiments on obedience?

During the second war in Iraq,there were media clips of Iraqi civilians pulling down statues of Saddam Hussein.Such images are highly symbolic of the fact that the power of Saddam's regime is no longer perceived as ______.

Which of the following are hallmarks of Erving Goffman's 'Total Institutions'?

The Bradford studies of decision-making highlighted three different decision processes which were ______?