Chap 18

Question 1

What is power?

Answer 1

Is the ability to influence the behavior of other to get what you want

Question 2

Positive Consequences of Power

Answer 2

powerful CEOs can align an entire organization to move together to achieve goals

Question 3

Negative Consequences of Power

Answer 3

Autocracy can destroy companies and countries alike | Power can be abused by individuals who are often quick to conform for fear of retaliation and going against the group

Question 4

How to build your network

Answer 4

Going to lunch with someone; try to do more to encourage, help, and share with others; seek information outside your own class or work group; you can spend time with people from work outside work

Conducting informational interviews; an interview conducted with the goal of gathering information and insights into jobs and careers in general, rather than securing a job

Question 5

Organization politics

Answer 5

Are informal, unofficial, and sometimes behind-the-scenes effort to sell ideas, influence an organization, increase power, or achieve other targeted objectives

Question 6

Impacts of Organization politics

Answer 6

People believe they need to take part in office politics to get ahead

Some people use this as a way to bypass corporate policy and structure to get a project in or lobbying high-level managers before they make a decision

Question 7

High Power Distance (Global Power)

Answer 7

High power distance is power that is centralized in the hands of a few;

The structure is hierarchical, and compensation is based on your position in the hierarchy;

They expect unequal distributions of power, people expect (and receive) obedience

Question 8

Low Power Distance (Global Power)

Answer 8

Value cooperative interaction across power levels

They emphasize equality and opportunity for everyone

Want leaders to be achievement oriented, visionary and inspirational, but they don’t want their leader to stand out too much

Leaders need to be seen as “one of us”

Status is based on achievement rather than class distinction or birth

People in power cannot arbitrarily hire their relatives or reward those loyal to them, there are formal review mechanisms in place to give everyone a fair chance at pay raises, and the difference in pay between high-level and lower level jobs is smaller