Exam 13: Overcoming Politics, Negativity, and Conflict in the Workplace

Conflict management means resolving conflict whenever it is detrimental and initiating it when necessary to overcome stagnation in an organization.

Bringing together people who have a common cause or goal is a strategy of internal politicians known as:

Internal politics consists of the games people play to promote decisions that are based on criteria other than merit.

One definition of corporate culture is the way things are done in an organization.

Which of the following situations indicates that conflict should be stimulated?

Power is the ability to exert influence.

Which of the following is NOT a strategy for preventing internal politics?

The Achilles Heel of the geographic structure with regard to internal politics is:

A strategy used by internal politics that involves the sharing and/or selective withholding of information is:

Which of the following is NOT typically an effect of internal politics in an organization?

Internal politics occurs when individuals put the organization's goals ahead of their own.

There are certain organizational structures that tend to prevent internal politics.