Exam 12: Power and Politics

Forms of destructive politics include all of the following EXCEPT:

__________ is the process by which managers help others to acquire and use the power needed to make decisions affecting themselves and their work.

______________ occurs when individuals accept an influence attempt because they want to maintain a positive relationship with the person or group making the influence request.

____________ involves sharing power, information, and rewards with employees to make decisions and solve problems in their work.

Which of the following occurs when individuals accept an influence attempt out of duty or obligation?

Reciprocal alliances are efforts by organizational members to seek resources and achieve desired goals through informal systems and structures.

The iron law of responsibility describes a situation in which one person's gain is equal to another person's loss.

Which of the following are efforts by organizational members to seek resources and achieve desired goals through informal systems and structures?

__________, or formal authority, is the extent to which a manager can use subordinates' internalized values or beliefs that the "boss" has a "right of command" to control their behavior.

A power made operative against another's will is known as ______________.

Perception of organizational politics is the perception that political activities in the organization are self-serving, illegitimate, and harmful to organizational members.

All of the following are keys to being powerful EXCEPT:

__________ power is the ability to alter another's behavior because the person wants to identify with the power source.

We can increase our power and self-control by removing another's power over us.

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

The lack of autonomy and participation is known as

__________ power resides in the individual and is independent of that individual's position.

____________ is defined as the ability of a person or group to influence or control some aspect of another person or group.

Expert power is the ability to control another's behavior through the possession of knowledge, experience, or judgment that the other person does not have but needs.

__________ power is the ability to call on connections and networks both inside and outside the organization for support in getting things done and in meeting one's goals.