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22 Cards in this Set
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Define Power
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The ability to influence someone else
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Define Authority
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right to order or ask others to do what you want them to do. Bestowed by position in org hierarchy
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Define influence
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a dynamic interpersonal process in which one person affects the thoughts feelings and behaviors of others
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Managers use power ethically by
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communicate effectively and show respect for subordinates through words and actions
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Sources of interpersonal power
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reward, coercive legitimate referent expert
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Power due to position
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reward, coercive legitimate
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forms of personal power
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referent expert
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Subunits in Org gain power by
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competing for resources
managing org uncertainty occupy center of workflow eliminating subs for unit's activities |
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Org politics focuses on
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methods and results
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Types of methods and results
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sanctioned vs non-sanctioned
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Define leadership
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the power of one individual to guide the actions of another
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Define management
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a set of interlocking roles:
interpersonal informational decisional |
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Fiedler's contingency theory
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integrates the leader's orientation to his least preferred co-worker AND the favorableness of the situation
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Fiedler's contingency theory proposes the 'situation' is composed of
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leader-member relations
leader's position power task structure |
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Leader's control of situational favorableness can be enhance d by chagnes in
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leader-member relations
leader's position power task structure |
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Define path-goal theory
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leader's job is clarification of pathways from workers effort and performance to the rewards that they value.
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Path goal theory leaders achieve clarification by
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directive
supportive participative achievement oriented behavior |
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Leaders can be neutralized by
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subordinate's characteristics
tasks the organization |
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Define entrepreneur
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special types of leaders who create wealth by assuming risk. Skills can be learned.
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entrepreneurs differ from bueaucrats in their orientation to
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strategy
opportunity exploitation decision making resource allocation rewards practices |
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To create entrepreneurial behavior in orgs they must create following roles
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idea champion
sponsor godfather |
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Greenhouses
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protect creative groups from org bureaucracy
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