Exam 13: Power and Politics

At the organizational level, if Jenn can dismiss, suspend, or demote Colby, assuming Colby values his or her job, Jenn has ________ power over Colby.

How might the concept of scarcity affect you when you are looking for employment prior to or after graduation?

List and discuss the bases of formal power.

Legitimate power is based on ________ in the organization.

Power is a function of ________.

What are the various individual factors that make a person more likely to engage in political behavior?

Expert power develops out of admiration of another and a desire to be like that person.

James approaches his supervisor with data and a logical presentation supporting his request for additional personnel. Which of the following power tactics is used by James?

Which of the following power tactics is more effective when the audience is highly interested in the outcomes of a decision process?

Joe comes to you with a request for funds for a project. He reminds you that company policy supports his position. He is using the tactic of ________.

What power tactics can employees use to translate their power bases into specific actions and how does each one work?

Unlike leadership research, research on power tends to focus on ________.

Power tactics are defined as ________.

Describe the various organizational factors that are related to political behavior.

List and discuss the bases of personal power.

Which one of the following is not implied in the definition of power?

John is good with numbers, but he wasn't sure what he wanted to study in college. During his senior year in high school he had a math teacher, Mr. Roury. John liked his teaching style and got interested in numbers. He also joined the Math Club to spend more time with Mr. Roury. As a result, John went on to study math and later engineering in college, and today tells his kids that he owes his career to Mr. Roury. Mr. Roury exhibited ________ power over John.

Which of the following power tactics involves increasing the target's support by involving him or her in decision making?

Marilyn is the department head for a large call center and is responsible for conducting quarterly performance evaluations on her employees. While a good portion of the evaluation is based on areas such as friendliness, punctuality, and customer ratings, roughly half of the appraisal is based on call volume and the conversion of callers to customers. An employee's evaluations are used to determine quarterly raises. Algemar and Nick both work for Marilyn. Marilyn feels that she is a mentor for Nick while she feels that she simply inherited Algemar from another department; thus, Marilyn sometimes strikes from Nick's call records customers who are extremely difficult or perhaps too set against buying the product. For the last quarter, Marilyn awarded Nick a raise while she did not award one to Algemar. Marilyn's striking the difficult customers from Nick's record could most logically be called ________.

Which of the following statements is true regarding power?