Exam 11: Power and Political Behavior

Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, recognizes that his musicians have considerable experience playing classical music. While a director is expected to put his "brand" on the orchestra he believes the "best" music is played when all musicians are able to "access their own points of view". During concerts, Gilbert gives the audience a chance to vote through text message's and choose the orchestra's encore piece. Gilbert uses which of the following?

Identify and briefly discuss the major sources of intergroup power within an organization?

Expert power has the strongest relationship with performance and satisfaction in comparison to the other forms of power.

Actions not officially sanctioned by an organization that are taken to influence others in order to meet one's personal goals is called:

Match the following: -Coercive Power

According the Kanter's perspective on power, the key to overcoming powerlessness in organizations is to:

The Science Feature of Chapter 11 summarized the results of research investigating the relationship between political behavior, personal power, and career growth potential. Which of the following statements are consistent with the findings of this research?

While Kanter's symbols focus on the ability to help others, Korda's symbols focus on status.

Your boss asks that you buy a birthday present for his wife while you are on your lunch hour because he doesn't have time.This probably falls within your zone of indifference.

Empowerment can be thought about as being related to which two job dimensions?

A police officer exercises both legitimate and coercive power when she subdues a criminal.

Match the following: -Referent Power

The power base of the future will likely be:

Match the following: -Inspirational appeal

Your authors suggest the addition of another source of power to French and Raven's five sources of power.Which of the following best reflects this additional source of power?

The sales force in a computer firm has power because of its immediate effect on the firm's operations and because other groups (accounting and servicing groups) depend on its activities. This is best explained by which of the following?

When both men and women witness political behavior and the agent is of their gender and the target is of the opposite gender, evidence suggests:

All of the following are considered a key dimension for being politically skillful EXCEPT:

Politics cannot and should not be eliminated from organizations.

Enlarging an individual's zone of indifference is best accomplished through: