BEHV 5616 - Study Guide: B & B Chapter 23 - Understanding Power

Why is it important to support others? (Select all that apply) If you help others, you are more likely to get their help when you need it. When you help others you are usually welcomed as a colleague. Everyone should follow the Golden Rule. to establish yourself as a "do gooder" or someone who wants to please others

If you help others, you are more likely to get their help when you need it. When you help others you are usually welcomed as a colleague.

How does your job title give you power? It tells other people outside of the organization that you are a good manager and should be listened to. It gives you the opportunity to delegate the busy work to people underneath you. It creates an opportunity for the management to develop good repertoires. It dictates who works under you and who has to do what their told.

It creates an opportunity for the management to develop good repertoires.

How can certain characteristics give you power? Working on leadership characteristics can make you a desirable partner. When you act like a leader, you become a leader. Demonstrating a hard, no-excuses attitude can bring out the same in your staff. When you are born with leadership traits, you will go far.

Working on leadership characteristics can make you a desirable partner.

How does your affiliation with others give you power? (Select all that apply) The mob mentality can be very influential. You can garner support when needed. You can develop projects of common interest. You can have more power than you do as an individual.

You can garner support when needed. You can develop projects of common interest. You can have more power than you do as an individual.

What is meant by "soft power"? establish yourself as a reinforcer for others, make it clear what you need them to do and give them to tools to do it providing indirect suggestions about key decisions in the company providing opportunities for staff to make influential decisions letting your staff call the shots

establish yourself as a reinforcer for others, make it clear what you need them to do and give them to tools to do it

What is "power" in the context of the small behavior analytic consulting firm? the ability to make a big difference in the community doing what you're told because the administration has all of the power making influential decisions within the company distributing scarce resources

making influential decisions within the company

What is the positive connotation of the term "power"? the ability to make structural changes within the organization and change job descriptions the ability to tell people what to do the ability to allocate resources and influence decisions the ability to get what you need

the ability to allocate resources and influence decisions