Exam 12: Power and Politics

__________ is an avoidance strategy in the politics of self-protection wherein the manager or employee adheres strictly to all the rules,policies,and procedures,and does not allow deviations or exceptions.

Four bases of personal power are expert power,rational persuasion,referent power,and coalition power.

Managers may gain a better understanding of political behavior to forecast future actions by placing themselves in the position of other persons involved in critical decisions or events.

When Linda,a manager in a department store,tells someone to do something and refers to the fact that she is the boss and therefore the other person must do as asked,she is trying to use which type of power to influence the other person's behavior?

__________ behavior is action directed primarily at developing or using relationships in which other people are willing to some degree to defer to one's wishes.

Which of the following statements about empowerment is NOT correct?

Coalition power is the ability to control another's behavior indirectly because the individual owes an obligation to you or another as part of a larger collective interest.

The issue of __________ is an important ethical consideration with respect to agency theory.

Referent power is the ability to control another's behavior because,through the individual's efforts,the person accepts the desirability of an offered goal and a reasonable way of achieving it.

The ability to get someone else to do something you want done or to make things happen the way you want is called __________.

By learning better ways to negotiate,persuade people,and understand the goals and means people are willing to accept,an individual can learn political savvy in order to increase his or her personal power.

Which strategy for exercising relational influence can be described as "using the exchange of benefits as a basis for negotiation?"

The personal power of rational persuasion can be developed by always honoring implied and explicit social contracts in order to build trust.

Individuals can employ three common strategies to protect themselves against organizational politics.These three strategies are __________.

Which of the following control mechanisms is commonly used to ensure that executives and managers,as agents of the firm's owners,act in the best interests of those owners?

__________ is a political self-protection approach of redirecting responsibility by defining the task in such a way that it becomes someone else's formal responsibility.

Personal power resides in the individual and is independent of that individual's position within an organization.

A manager who withholds positive outcomes,such as special assignments or bonuses,as a means for controlling the behavior of employees is using which type of power?

In the context of self-protection against organizational politics,the methods of redirecting accountability includes all of the following EXCEPT:

Which statement about empowerment is not true?