Exam 13: Power and Politics

The concept of sexual harassment is consistent across cultures.

When a bank robber points a gun at a bank employee, his base of power is ________.

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 awarding Nick a raise based on his evaluations could best be called ________.

Power does not require goal compatibility.

Larry can assign Oliver work activities that Oliver finds unpleasant. Larry possesses ________ power over Oliver.

A sociogram is another form of an organizational chart.

Which of the following influence tactics is considered a "harder" tactic that emphasizes formal power and incurs greater costs and risks?

People especially likely to comply with hard power tactics tend to be intrinsically motivated.

When the power tactic of ________ works, it's generally downward only.

Which of the following is a self-focused impression management technique?