Power
Tactics
Politics
Strategies
Control
100

The sharing of knowledge on mediums such as social media.

What is New Power?

100

The act of sharing authority and responsibility of decision making from leaders to group members.

What is Empowerment?


100

Informal approaches to gaining power through means other than merit or luck.

What is Organizational Politics?

100

Cultivating friendly, cooperative relationships with powerful organizational members and outsiders can make the leader’s cause much easier to advance.

What is Developing Power Contacts?

100

Different ways to limit growth of dysfunctional political behaviors.

What is Avoiding favoritism and cronyism or Setting good examples at the top or Having goal congruence or Making topic discussions publicly or Hiring people with integrity?

200

The predominate view and ownership of power in established organizations.

What is Old Power?

200

The assigning of formal instructions and responsibilities to employees for them to complete a specific task with a bit of creativity of their own.

What is Delegation?


200

Organizational structures that have a high power concentration at the top.

What is Pyramid-Shaped Organizational Structure?

200

The notion that everyone expects to be paid back in full for helping out.

What is the Law of Reciprocity?

200

Different ways to promote growth of dysfunctional political behaviors.

What is Applying favoritism and cronyism or Setting bad examples at the top or Not having goal congruence or Making topic discussions privately or Hiring people without integrity?

300

The lawful right to make a decision and expect compliance.

What is Legitimate Power?

300

Learning about other cultures helps us understand different perspectives within the world in which we live. It helps dispel negative stereotypes and personal biases about different groups.

What is Taking into Account Cultural Differences?


300

“It’s not what you know but who you know” is the phrase used to describe the firm's lack of objective methods.


What is Subjective Standards of Performance?

300

Committing these politically insensitive acts can also prevent one from attaining power.

What is Avoiding Political Blunders?

300

When there is a high degree of organizational politics.

What is High level of stress or Temptation to quit or Decrease in job satisfaction or Less commitment to employer or Lower task performance or Degrading organizational citizenship behavior?

400

Power that depends on how closely the leader is linked to shareholders and board members.

What is Power from Ownership?

400

When workers lack a clear perception of the boundaries of empowerment.

What is Establishing Limits to Empowerment?

400

People that engage in political behavior because they want to manipulate others, sometimes for their own personal advantage.

What is Machiavellian Tendency?

400

A loyal worker is valued higher because organizations prosper more with loyal than with disloyal employees.

What is Displaying Loyalty?

400

When there is a low degree of organizational politics.

What is Low level of stress or Temptation to stay or Increase in job satisfaction or More commitment to employer or Higher task performance or Increasing organizational citizenship behavior?

500

Leaders in search of more power typically maneuver toward a higher-reporting position in the organization.


What is Power from being Close to Power?

500

Workers deciding what should be done, why it should be done, and how to accomplish the task.

What is Encouraging Self-Leadership?


500

People resort to political maneuvers to ingratiate themselves with superiors because they lack confidence in their own talents and skills.

What is Emotional Insecurity?

500

Behaviors directed at enhancing one’s image by drawing attention to oneself.

What is Managing Impression?

500

When too much organizational politics occurs that it causes damages to the organizations and its member.

What is Dysfunctional Politics?

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