Exam 10: Power and Politics

Personality traits corresponded highly with the individual manager's propensity to engage in office politics.The profile that emerged characterized the "political player" as ___________.

The Milgram experiments indicate that ___________.

The degree to which individuals or subunits can affect decision making determines their level of power.

McClelland proposed that n Pow may be shown by,among other ways,a concern for reputation.

The literature uses the terms power and authority interchangeably.

What is impression management and how have impression management techniques been classified?

Political behavior is by definition constrained to members of management.

Power based upon a person's ability to influence because of position is called ___________ power.

What is the source of a professor's power? Apply French and Raven's terms to you professor.

How could you attempt to influence the ways in which others perceive you?

A clerk arranges the incoming complaints so that the manager in charge reprimands a departmental supervisor whom the clerk doesn't like.This action may be best described by which of the following terms?

Are power and authority the same thing? Define the terms and provide detail on any differences.

As a result of ____________,the formal power that exists in an organization is often sidetracked or blocked.

Substitutability of the activities of a subunit and subunit power within the organization are negatively correlated.

Organizational structure creates formal power and authority by ___________.

Utilitarian outcomes may be summarized as ___________.

A person in an authority position may fight back when faced with insurgency.Mintzberg may describe this as playing the ___________.

Interpersonal power can be cultivated and developed.

Describe five of the political games Mintzberg described.

The five bases of interpersonal power can be divided into two major categories: organizational and personal.