The best example of personal power would be power stemming from the
Relevant expertise a person brings to the job.
What would bring a person legitimate power?
Being appointed a corporate officer
What are two types of power that stem from a leader's authority to respond to the consequences of people's actions?
Reward power and coercive power
The two types of personal power are
Expert and referent
A leader acquires prestige power through
Developing an outside reputation
Advertising manager Roxanne applies the dependence perspective on power when she
Makes her staff members dependent on her to pursue their ideas
According to the dependence theory of power, Alex has power over Ziggy when
Ziggy is dependent on Alex
Team leader Wanda is managing the critical problem of selling company assets to raise cash and has therefore gained power in the eyes of management. Wanda is implementing which explanation of a source of power
Strategic contingency theory
A consequence of the resource dependence perspective is that when leaders start losing their ability to control resources, they
Lose power
The higher a unit reports in the hierarchy, the
More power it acquires
As the leader shares power with others, the leader's power
Increases
A rational for empowerment is that the most successful organizations
Effectively use the talents of all players on the team.
Two components of empowerment revealed by research are
Competence and self-determination
Gus has been empowered by his manager to develop a new work flow design for the office. After completing the task successfully, Gus believes that he has the ability to perform an important new skill. The characteristic of empowerment just described is mos
Self-efficacy
Empowerment tends to work best when the empowered activities are
Linked to the work goals of the organization
What are 3 effective contributors to empowerment?
1. Providing a positive emotional atmosphere
2. Making rewards visible
3. Starting with small changes and then building on the early success.
What is recommended as an effective empowering practice?
Providing ample information to workers
According to a consultant cited in the leadership text, after the group is empowered, the leader
Should still provide guidance
A study of empowerment in a firm with operations in the United States, Mexico, Poland, and India found that empowerment was negatively associated with hob satisfaction among the workers in
India
Margaret has Machiavellian tendencies, so she is likely to
Manipulate other people for her personal gain
What are 3 contributors to the political behavior in the workplace?
1. A pyramid-shaped organization structure
2. Environmental uncertainty and turbulence
3. Emotional insecurity of workers
Your CEO, Anika Banaga, is a black woman raised in Africa. While introducing Bananga to work associates, it would be politically correct to say, "I would like you to meet Anika Banaga, our
CEO
According to the Law of Reciprocity (as it relates to organizational politics)
Everybody expects to be paid back
Sending thank-you notes to large numbers of people is regarded as a
Basic, but effective, political technique
A major political blunder is to
Be tactless toward influential people
A frequent political blunder with email is to
Send incriminating or embarrassing emails on the company system
After creating a false catastrophe, the particularly devious political player
Claims to have resolved the problem
A recommended way of reducing disruptive politics within the work group is to
Avoid favoritism
A recommended strategy for minimizing office politics is to
Set a good example at the top
Middle manager Barney practices favoritism when he recommends for promotion
A golfing buddy who is a low producer