Organizations are rolling arenas hosting ongoing contests of individual group and interest.
What are political frames.
100
These have assumed that organizations have, or ought to have, clear and consistent goals set at the apex of authority.
Who are Academics and Managers.
100
the combination of scarce resources and divergent interests produces conflict as surely as night follows day.
What is the Political Frame.
100
The politcs of getting ahead.
What are Moral Mazes.
200
power is diffuse and the system is very loosely controlled.
What is an underbounded system.
200
Contractors involved in the complex coalition.
What is Congress, the White House, the Military, the media and the American Public.
200
In a business, the owners or top managers set what two goals?
What is growth and profitability.
200
Natural and inevitable: Organizations can have too much or too little.
What is Conflict.
200
Assessment of individual performance.
What are Subjective Judgements.
300
power is highly concentrated and everything is tightly regulated.
What is an overbounded system.
300
Coalition members have enduring differences.
What is NASA's hunger for funding competed with the public's interest in lower taxes.
300
If _______________ becomes too powerful, authority systems may collapse.
What is partisan opposition.
300
Hierarchical conflict
Horizontal
Cultural
What are forms of organizational conflict.
300
Organizations can’t eliminate politics, but they can
What is influence the kind of politics they have.
400
I was "fired with enthusiasm".
Who is Clark Kerr
400
Political bargaining and powerful allies propelled this person into the rocket motor business.
Who is Morton Thiokol.
400
Social control depends on this.
What is Authority.
400
Management's challenge is to recognize and manage what conflict?
What is interface conflict.
400
Who blew the whistle on these employers: Enron, WorldCom, and the FBI and given the Person of the Year Award?
What are three women.
500
Position power, control of rewards, coercive power, information and expertise, reputation, personal power, alliances and networks, access and control of agendas and framing.
What are Sources of Power.
500
Organizations are coalitions of assorted individuals and interest groups.
Coalition members have enduring differences in values, beliefs, information, interest, and perceptions of reality.
Most important decisions involve allocating scarce resouces-who gets what.
Scare resources and enduring differences put conflict at the center of day-to-day dynamics and make power the most important asset.
Goals and decisions emerge from bargaining and negotiation among competing stakeholders jockeying for their own interests.
What are the Five Propositions?
500
Quasi-resolution of conflict, uncertainty avoidance, problematic search and organizational learning.
What are relational concepts?
500
Political prism puts more emphasis on these two things rather than resoultion of conflict.
What are strategy and tactics.
500
This person views the corporation as a world of cabals and alliances, dominance, and submission, conflict and self-interest, and "Moral Mazes"