Sources of Power
This model says that power comes from one party controlling resources that another party values.
Response: What is the dependence model of power?
Clue: One form of power increases when others lack access to the same resource.
Response: What is scarcity?
Clue: This is the value people gain from their relationships and networks with others.
Response: What is social capital?
Clue: This is the use of communication, behaviour, and relationships to affect another person’s attitudes, decisions, or actions.
Response: What is influence?
Clue: This tactic occurs when a person influences others because of their title, position, or role, even without saying much.
Response: What is silent authority?
Clue: These are self serving behaviours used to influence decisions, gain advantages, or protect personal interests in organizations.
Response: What are organizational politics?
Clue: This source of power comes from the authority attached to a formal position in the organization.
Response: What is legitimate power?
Clue: This contingency means the resource or role is important to the organization’s goals and survival.
Response: What is centrality?
Clue: These ties are close relationships, usually marked by trust, frequent interaction, and emotional depth.
Response: What are strong ties?
Clue: These two broad categories group influence tactics based on whether they rely more on relationships and persuasion or more on force and authority.
Response: What are soft tactics and hard tactics?
Clue: This tactic involves managing access to key facts, knowledge, or communication so others depend on you.
Response: What is informational control?
Clue: These negative effects often result from too much politics: lower trust, more conflict, and lower job satisfaction.
Response: What are consequences of organizational politics?
Clue: This source of power exists when someone can provide rewards such as promotions, bonuses, or preferred assignments.
Response: What is reward power?
Clue: This contingency occurs when a person or department can make decisions and act without constant approval.
Response: What is discretion?
Clue: These ties are more distant or casual relationships, but they are often valuable because they provide new information and opportunities.
Response: What are weak ties?
Clue: This soft tactic uses logic, facts, and evidence to convince someone.
Response: What is persuasion?
Clue: This tactic involves gathering support from others so that pressure comes from several people rather than one.
Response: What is coalition formation or coalition?
Clue: Politics often increase when employees feel these are too limited, such as time, money, support, or opportunities.
Response: What are resources?
Clue: This source of power comes from knowledge, skill, or recognized competence.
Response: What is expert power?
Clue: This contingency refers to the degree to which others depend on the resource because substitutes are not easily available.
Response: What is nonsubstitutability?
Clue: This centrality factor refers to how many connections a person has in a network.
Response: What is degree centrality?
Clue: This hard tactic involves being direct, forceful, and persistent in making requests or demands.
Response: What is assertiveness?
Clue: This tactic tries to gain support by appealing to a higher level manager or formal chain of command.
Response: What is upward appeal?
Clue: This way of reducing politics involves making decisions about budgets, promotions, and opportunities more open and understandable.
Response: What is clarifying resource allocation?
Clue: This source of power is based on admiration, identification, and respect for a person.
Response: What is referent power?
Clue: A department that controls a scarce, important, and irreplaceable resource with decision-making freedom would be high on these four factors.
Response: What are the contingencies of power?
Clue: Name the other two main centrality factors besides degree centrality.
Response: What are closeness centrality and betweenness centrality?
Clue: This tactic involves shaping how others see you by managing your image, credibility, or professionalism.
Response: What is impression management or shaping?
Clue: This tactic involves offering benefits, favours, or resources in return for support.
Response: What is exchange?
Clue: Name two ways leaders can minimize organizational politics besides clarifying resource allocation.
What are providing resources, managing change effectively, discouraging political behaviour, improving communication, or increasing transparency?