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. Who stated that: 'A has power over B to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do'?

Robert Dahl correct incorrect

Jeffery Pfeffer correct incorrect

Niccoló Machiavelli correct incorrect

Stephen Lukes correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is the advice that Niccoló Machiavelli offers to leaders?

It is better to be successful than respected. correct incorrect

It is better to be respected than successful. correct incorrect

It is better to be loved than feared. correct incorrect

It is better to be feared than loved. correct incorrect

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. Who, in this list, has power in the organization?

Only executives correct incorrect

Only management level correct incorrect

Only workers correct incorrect

Executives, management, and workers correct incorrect

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. According to Jeffery Pfeffer power is:

Having something that someone else wants or needs where there are few other alternatives. correct incorrect

The ability to control others. correct incorrect

Being in the right position within the organization. correct incorrect

The ability to set the agenda. correct incorrect

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. What would French and Raven state that an IT specialist has?

Legitimate power correct incorrect

Reward power correct incorrect

Expert power correct incorrect

Coercive power correct incorrect

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. Why does Stephen Lukes state that power exists even when you do not see conflict?

Because the powerful shape the very needs and wants of the less powerful. correct incorrect

Because people talk about each other behind their backs. correct incorrect

Because people like to think that someone else is in charge. correct incorrect

Because the less powerful simply concede because they know they lack power and therefore will not succeed. correct incorrect

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. Why, for Foucault, can power be a positive phenomenon?

Power gives managers more control over individual workers. correct incorrect

Power is inbuilt into new forms of surveillance which increase the effectiveness of organizations to monitor their employees. correct incorrect

Power is a creative force that brings certain ways of being and thinking into reality. correct incorrect

Power is how you get things done. correct incorrect

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. What are the key implications, for OB of our understanding of power, that arise out of the Milgram experiments?

That people are prepared to electrocute people. correct incorrect

That people are willing to obey commands from authority figures over their own judgement. correct incorrect

That people are uncaring. correct incorrect

That people willing accept the role as prison guards without questioning it. correct incorrect

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. Why might empowering the workers be good for the organization?

Because workers are better trained and therefore more productive. correct incorrect

Empowered workers work best in a team. correct incorrect

Managers have more control over telling people exactly what to do. correct incorrect

Power resides at the level of the person actually doing the job, leading to better decision making and can satisfy customer needs. correct incorrect

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. Why does empowerment not necessarily produce greater freedom for the worker?

Workers can get promoted but do not necessarily get paid more. correct incorrect

Employees have increased responsibilities of how to carry out tasks without necessarily being able to set the wider goals of the organization. correct incorrect

Empowered workers might set harder goals for themselves than management would have done. correct incorrect

Empowered workers might share their secrets with management leading to greater control over them. correct incorrect