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

In chapter 8 of your textbook,games characterized by conflict that is moderate,confined,and relatively stable,and that can be found in publicly accountable professional organizations such as hospitals or schools are termed ______.

What is one of the main criticisms of 'Strategic Contingencies Theory' identified in your textbook?

According to your textbook the challenge for future power theory is ______.

Why do some theorists write about decision-making using the metaphor of the garbage can?

The idea that organizations are not so much problem solvers as action generators is attributed to which famous management theorist?

Mintzberg identifies several types of political games actors in organizations play.What term does he use to refer to games which the dominant elites play against the lower status participants,in response to the former group's games?

What is the name of the theory that attempts to measure and build a model of power that shows how it is related to the control of uncertainty?

What is another term your textbook uses for organizations that reinforce hegemony through the totality of its everyday practices?

According to your textbook,a rational economic model of decision making would assume that ______.

Why has uncertainty been seen to be an important basis for power in organizations?

In its simplest form,soft domination can be described as ______.

Who introduced the key term of 'information panopticon'?

Henry Mintzberg used the term ______ to refer to the systems of politics that come into play whenever the systems of authority,ideology or expertise are contested in various political games.

Mintzberg identifies several types of political games actors in organizations play.What term does he use to refer to games in which actors seek to capture others and enrol them as subordinate to their interests?

Your textbook identifies a range of bases of power,legitimacy being one.Which one of the following is NOT central to the concept of power as legitimation?

In chapter 8 of your textbook,power is said to be ______ if it is exercised according to one's own interests rather than one's sanctioned authority within the bureaucracy.

Using what you have read in chapter seven of your textbook,why might people in organizations act in morally and ethically questionable ways? When they do so,who is to blame and who must pay?

Drawing upon Mintzberg,chapter 6 of your textbook identifies four broad categories of games played in the political arena.These are confrontation,politicized organizations,complex political arenas,and ______.

For James Barker,organization design based upon Mary Parker Follett's principles of democratization and empowerment,and Elton Mayo's concept of human relations would be exemplifying what?