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assign employees to specific tasks.
People-oriented
Which of the following is a characteristic of an adaptive corporate culture?
Employees continuously question past practices.
___________ refers to any behavior that attempts to alter someone's attitudes or behavior.
Influence
___________ are employees who coordinate the activities of work units toward the completion of a shared task or project.
Integrators
What is one of the benefits of conflict?
It encourages employees to reexamine their basic assumptions about a problem and its possible solutions.
Which of the following is an advantage of having a moderate level of organizational conflict?
It energizes people to evaluate alternatives.
Which of the following statements is TRUE about using the separation strategy?
It works best when two merging companies operate in unrelated industries.
Which of the following is the most accurate definition of leadership?
Leadership is influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organization.
Which of the following statements is most consistent with the view of shared leadership?
Leadership of an organization is broadly distributed rather than assigned to one person.
Which of the following is TRUE about mental models?
Mental models can blind employees to new opportunities and unique problems.
What is the relationship between emotional intelligence and relationship conflicts?
Relationship conflict is less likely to occur if emotional intelligence is high.
___________ involves calling upon higher authority or expertise, or symbolically relying on these sources to support the influencer's position.
Upward appeal
________ follows the "Four-D" process.
Appreciative inquiry
_______ leadership refers to how well leaders are aware of, feel comfortable with, and act consistently with their self-concepts.
Authentic
__ is knowing yourself and being yourself.
Authenticity
Which of the following third-party conflict resolution strategies is characterized by high decision control and high process control?
inquisition
Which of the following types of third-party intervention approaches do managers and those in other positions of authority usually adopt?
inquisitional
Which of the following is an artifact?
language
Servant leadership emphasizes the notion that
leaders serve followers, rather than vice versa.
When leaders apply high levels of ___________ behavior, their employees tend to have more positive attitudes as well as lower absenteeism, grievances, and turnover.
people-oriented leadership
The personal attributes perspective of leadership
presents the view that certain personal characteristics distinguish great leaders from the rest of us.
Which of the following interpersonal conflict management styles represents a purely win‒win orientation?
problem solving
Unfreezing refers to
producing disequilibrium between the driving and restraining forces of change.
Which of the following are the observable indicators of organizational culture?
artifacts
Task-oriented leaders
assign employees to specific tasks.
According to the attraction-selection-attrition (ASA) theory, job applicants
avoid employment in companies whose values seem incompatible with their own values.
________ goals are goals that the conflicting employees or departments value and whose attainment requires the joint resources and effort of those parties.
Superordinate
Which of the following refers to "walk the talk"?
The leader steps out and behaves in ways that symbolize the vision.
Which of the following is TRUE about organizational culture?
The strength of an organization's culture refers to how widely and deeply employees hold the company's dominant values and assumptions.
Referent power is typically associated with
charisma.
When a member of a network has shorter, more direct, and efficient paths or connections with others in the network, we say that the member has high
closeness.
Which of the following strategies to reduce the restraining forces should be used only if all other strategies fail?
coercion
Employees have ___________ , ranging from sarcasm to ostracism, to ensure that coworkers conform to team norms.
coercive power
According to the Four-D model of appreciative inquiry, participants form a collective model for thinking within a team in the ___________ stage.
designing
Which of the following sources of conflict is typically associated with mergers and acquisitions, where everyone wants the company to succeed, but they fight over the "right way" to do things because of their unique experiences in the separate companies?
differentiation
Implicit leadership theory states that
everyone has preconceived beliefs about leaders.
Which of the following sources of power originates from the power holder's own characteristics?
expert power
Which of these forces are commonly called resistance to change?
restraining forces
When managing change, learning interventions should be used
to break routines that cause resistance to change.
Lewin's force field model emphasizes that effective change occurs by ___________ the current situation, moving to a desired condition, and then ___________ the system so it remains in the desired state.
unfreezing; refreezing
People with high Machiavellian values tend to
use power to manipulate others toward their own personal goals.
A new employee in the finance department of the Hogan Company prominently displays diplomas and past awards indicating his financial expertise. What contingency of power is this person trying to increase?
visibility
___________ literally refers to how much you are located between others in a network.
Betweenness
Which of the following statements is TRUE of countervailing power in organizational relationships?
Countervailing power is the weaker party's power to maintain the stronger party's continued participation in the relationship.
________ are unconscious, taken-for-granted perceptions or ideal prototypes of behavior that are considered the correct way to think and act toward problems and opportunities.
Shared assumptions
Reality shock is
a perceived discrepancy between employees' expectations and reality.
Action research is
a process that diagnoses the need for change, introduces the intervention, and then evaluates and stabilizes the desired changes.
One of the functions of ___________ is that it is a spawning ground for emerging values that keep the firm aligned with the needs of customers, suppliers, society, and other stakeholders.
a subculture
Refreezing refers to
aligning an organization's systems with the desired behaviors to support and reinforce the new role patterns.
When people have leadership prototypes, they
believe that leaders are effective only if they behave consistently with their own preconceptions of how an effective leader should act.
Your centrality in a social network is determined by your
betweenness, closeness, and degree centrality.
In the negotiation process, a key objective of ___________ is to establish and maintain trust.
building the relationship
Which of these refers to the degree and nature of interdependence between the power holder and others?
centrality
Effective change agents
communicate vision in ways that are meaningful to others.
You are assigned to resolve a conflict between two departments of an organization. Both parties have equal power. Both parties are under time pressure to resolve the conflict. You also realize that the parties lack trust/openness for problem solving. You are actively searching for a middle ground between the interests of the two parties. Which of the following conflict resolution styles would you use in this situation?
compromising
In which strategy does the acquiring company impose its culture and business practices on the acquired organization?
deculturation
The number or percentage of connections you have in a network is called
degree centrality.
Organizational stories are most effective at communicating organizational culture only when they
describe real people and are assumed to be true.
Which of the following leadership styles in path-goal theory is the same as task-oriented leadership?
directive
According to path-goal theory, a combination of ___________ leadership is best for employees who are (or perceive themselves to be) inexperienced and unskilled.
directive and supportive
People with an external locus of control tend to be more satisfied with ___________ leadership styles.
directive and supportive
The four stages of appreciative inquiry, in order, are
discovery, dreaming, designing, and delivering.
Which of the following characteristics addresses the leader's high need for achievement?
drive
Which of these forces push organizations toward a new state of affairs?
driving forces
Employees are more likely to comply with a supervisor's legitimate power when the
employees have high power distance.
Transformational leaders
energize and direct employees to a new vision and corresponding behaviors.
Which of the following networking styles increases a person's expert power?
gaining valuable information from other members through networking
Social networks exist everywhere because people
have a drive to bond.
The ___________ theory states that people tend to inflate the influence of leaders on organizational events.
implicit leadership
Ingratiation is part of a larger influence tactic known as
impression management.
Which strategy for merging two distinct cultures is most effective when the two companies have relatively weak cultures with overlapping values?
integration
Organizational socialization is best described as a process of ___________ where newcomers try to make sense of and adapt to the company's environment.
learning and adjustment
Third-party dispute resolution activities are classified in terms of their
level of process control and level of decision control.
In the negotiation process, a key objective of ___________ is to discover in the other party and communicate your own relative importance of each issue being negotiated.
managing concessions
Which third-party conflict resolution strategy manages the process and context of interaction between the disputing parties but does not impose a solution on the parties?
mediation
The main purpose of a bicultural audit is to
minimize cultural clashes in corporate mergers.
Effective managers should
minimize the relationship conflicts that exist in the organization.
Which of the following refers to the strategy in which employees deliberately inflate problems with changes that they did not initiate, just to prove that those ideas were not superior to their own?
not-invented-here syndrome
When team norms encourage ___________ , team members learn to appreciate honest dialogue without personally reacting to any emotional display during the disagreements.
openness
Which of the following leadership theories or perspectives explicitly includes the participative and the directive leadership styles?
path-goal theory
Conflict is ultimately based on
people's perceptions.
The effectiveness of ___________ as an influence tactic depends on characteristics of the power holder, message content, communication channel, and the audience.
persuasion
NewTel is a telephone company with a policy of filling positions internally through promotions, rather than hiring from outside. Until recently, the company had a strong engineering focus and tended to promote people to senior executive positions from the engineering areas. Consequently, almost all of the company's 14 senior executives joined the company over 20 years ago as junior engineers. There is increasing pressure on NewTel to become more market and service oriented. As a result, four people were hired last year from firms to fill new senior executive positions in marketing and service departments. The external hires were necessary because current employees were not sufficiently qualified. Now, there are signs of tension among senior executives, particularly during budget deliberations where there is limited discretionary spending on new corporate activities. The four new hires have been thwarted in their attempts to have the company invest more in marketing and customer services instead of investing in technological research, and they blame the senior executives for being hard-headed. The conflict episodes are being viewed by both sides as personal attacks rather than attempts to resolve the problem. The marketing executives and the other executives operate independently. However, they share the resources and money in the organization. This kind of interdependence is referred to as
pooled interdependence.
Power is the ___________ to change someone's behavior.
potential
Leadership prototypes refer to
preconceived beliefs about the features and behaviors of effective leaders.
During which of the following stages of socialization do people first learn about the organization and job?
preemployment
Fun Incorporated, a major gaming software company, is experiencing a conflict between the young Internet-savvy employees who design the games and the older, less computer-literate executives who run the company. The company has hired team leaders who could work with the executives and who are also highly computer-literate. By hiring these team leaders as liaisons between the executives and employees, Fun Incorporated will
reduce conflict by reducing task interdependence.
Although Joanna expects much from her employees, the people that work for Joanna identify with her values, like her, and respect her as a person. Joanna has ___________ power.
referent
Situations with both ___________ produce the highest risk of conflict.
scarce resources and high task interdependence
In negotiations, better outcomes are usually achieved when negotiators
set high target points that are specific.
Which of the following leadership styles in path-goal theory is the same as people-oriented leadership?
supportive
Which of the following leadership styles should be used by leaders when team cohesiveness is low?
supportive
According to the emerging view on organizational conflict, there are two types of conflict with opposing consequences. They are
task conflict and relationship conflict.
The customer-service department at Park-E Bank complains it is unable to keep track of its new business clients as the department handling data compilation has failed to enable a free exchange of information between the two departments. This has hindered the customer-service department to follow up on its customers' queries and update their relationship status with the bank. This has also impacted the department's sales target. This scenario exemplifies conflict due to
task interdependence.
Initial offer points, target points, and resistance points represent three elements in
the bargaining zone model.
The bargaining zone model states that
the negotiation process moves each party along a continuum in opposite directions with an area of potential overlap.
The themes shared most consistently and widely by employees represent
the organization's dominant culture.
Charisma refers to
the personal traits that provide referent power over others.
