Exam 12: Power and Politics

_______________ are used to create a sense of obligation,because someone is doing something nice for you.

Organizational authority has all of the following characteristics except:

All else being equal,a subunit possesses power if its activities have more _______________ impact than those of other subunits.

A number of frequently used influence tactics were discussed in the text.How many have you witnessed being played in organizations of which you are a member? What other tactics have you seen used?

Effective empowerment requires that employees must be only given enough information to carry out their immediate tasks.

Assume that your supervisor stopped by to say,"We're really losing money using that Beal stamping machine,so I want you to do me a favor.I want you to come in this weekend and break the machine,so we can get a new one.But be sure to make it look like and accident.I don't trust anyone but you to do it,and it will really help us out." Would you comply with his request? Why or why not?

An example of coping by ________________ might be one subunit taking a problem employee from another in an attempt to retrain and redirect that employee.

Influence is the capability to get someone to do something.

Organizations with very few levels of management between the customer and top leadership are likely to have a less balanced distribution of power than traditional organizations with multiple layers of management.

John French and Bertram Raven suggested that all of the following are interpersonal sources of power except:

Compliance occurs when you agree internally with a decision,action,or request,are enthusiastic about it and are likely to exert unusual effort to carry it out.

Within the context of strategic contingency theory,a strategic contingency is

Identify three strategies or techniques a manager can employ to empower his or her employees.

Having access to relevant and important information is power.

Which of the following is an example of substitutability?

You cannot influence anyone (induce certain behavior in another person)without:

Microsoft,Google,and Walmart became prominent,profitable companies because they used the _______________ of their employees to gain a competitive advantage in their industries.

Kanter argues that power stems from multiple sources.What are they?

Sources of interpersonal power can be divided into two major categories.What are these categories with what sources of power are they associated?

A study of 700 employees suggested that political skill can accurately be broken down into all of the following factors except: