Chapter 10 - Testbank
Student: ___________________________________________________________________________
1. People might gain power by convincing others that they have something of value.
True False
2. Power is the act of changing another person's attitudes and behaviour.
True False
3. Power does not exist until the power holder actually applies power to influence someone else.
True False
4. Counterveiling power is the power that the dominant person in a relationship uses as a backup when the primary source of power fails to work as planned on the dependent person.
True False
5. In any relationship, both parties have some degree of power over the other.
True False
6. Legitimate power is created whenever the organisation assigns a supervisor formal authority over subordinates.
True False
7. Employees with low power distance are more likely to comply with legitimate power.
True False
8. Employees in Australia and other low power distance countries are more likely to accept legitimate power than are employees in Mexico and other high power distance countries.
True False
9. Subordinates have reward power over their bosses through 360-degree feedback systems.
True False
10. Peer pressure typically represents a form of coercive power.
True False
11. Employees are losing their expert power as society moves from an industrial to a knowledge-based economy.
True False
12. Referent power is mainly developed through a person's interpersonal skills.
True False
13. The all-channels information flow structure is difficult to maintain because it conflicts with knowledge management.
True False
14. The right to control information flow in the organisation is a form of legitimate power.
True False
15. Prevention, forecasting and absorption are three contingencies of power in organisations.
True False...