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Power that is based on an agent’s ability to cause an unpleasant experience for a target.
What is coercive power
100
A style of leadership in which the leader uses strong, directive, controlling actions to enforce the rules, regulations, activities, and relationships in the work environment.
What is autocratic style
100
A team that makes decisions that were once reserved for managers.
What is a self-managed team
100
The leadership guy that has written many popular books full of fluffy advice.
Who is Bennis
100
A theory that suggests that there are limits to how rational a decision maker can actually be.
What is bounded rationality
200
The power that exists when an agent has specialized knowledge or skills that the target needs.
What is expert power
200
A leader’s use of personal abilities and talents in order to have profound and extraordinary effects on followers.
What is charismatic leadership
200
A deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment resulting from pressures within the group.
What is groupthink
200
The funny guy who said that in eventually, everybody in a bureaucracy will rise to his/her level of incompetence.
Who is Peter
200
Shortcuts in decision making that save mental activity.
What is heuristics
300
Power that is based on position and mutual agreement; agent and target agree that the agent has the right to influence the target.
What is legitimate power
300
A style of leadership in which the leader uses interaction and collaboration with followers to direct the work and work environment.
What is democratic style
300
A new, complex decision that requires a creative solution.
What is a nonprogrammed decision
300
The guy who smoked a pipe and wrote "The Human Side of Enterprise"
Who is McGregor
300
A structured approach to group decision making that focuses on generating alternatives and choosing one.
What is nominal group technique (NGT)
400
An elusive power that is based on interpersonal attraction.
What is referent power
400
A style of leadership in which the leader has a hands–off approach.
What is laissez-faire style
400
A small group of employees who work voluntarily on company time, typically one hour per week, to address work–related problems such as quality control, cost reduction, production planning and techniques, and even product design.
What is a quality circle
400
The guy who revolutionized social/organizational research
Who is Likert
400
The tendency to choose options that entail fewer risks and less uncertainty.
What is risk aversion?
500
Power based on an agent’s ability to control rewards that a target wants.
What is reward power
500
The leader who uses rewards and punishment to shape behavior
What is a transactional leader
500
To select the first alternative that is “good enough,” because the costs in time and effort are too great to optimize.
What is satisfice
500
The guy who teaches this class, and says that you should be prepared for about 30 questions-- a combination of multiple choice, short answer, and matching. He also recommends you study more vocabulary.
Who is Gatlin
500
An extensive category of new developments in interpersonal communication that allow fast, even immediate, access to information.
What is information communication technology (ICT)