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Term | Definition |
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Mutuality of Interest | Balancing individual and organizational interests through win-win cooperation. |
What are the nine generic influence tactics? | Rational Persuasion, Inspirational appeals, consultation, Ingratiation, personal appeals, exchange, coalition tactics, pressure, and legitimating tactics. |
Rational Persuasion | Trying to convince someone with reason logic, or facts. |
Inspirational appeals | trying to build enthusiasm by appealing to others' emotions, ideas, or values. |
Consultation | Getting others to participate in planning, making decisions, and changes. |
Ingratiation | Getting someone in a good mood prior to making a request; being friendly, helpful, and using praise or flattery. |
Personal appeals | Referring to friendship and loyalty when making a request. |
Exchange | Making express or implied promises and trading favors. |
Coalition tactics | Getting others to support your effort to persuade someone. |
Pressure | Demanding compliance or using intimidation or threats. |
Legitimating tactics | Basing a request on one’s authority or right, organizational rules or policies, or express or implied support from superiors. |
What are three possible influence outcomes? | Commitment, Compliance, or Resistance. |
Commitment | Your friend enthusiastically agrees and will demonstrate initiative and persistence while completing the assignment. |
Compliance | Your friend grudgingly complies and will need prodding to satisfy minimum requirements. |
Resistance | Your friend will say no, make excuses, stall, or put up an argument. |
What is the Key to selling? | understand where the other person is coming from—rather than to assume that your boss is a complete jerk |
social power | Ability to get things done with human, informational, and material resources. |
What are the two main types of power? | Socialized and personalized power |
Socialized Power | Directed at helping others. |
Personalized Power | Directed at helping oneself. |
What are the five bases of power? | Reward, Coercive, Legitimate, Expert, and Referent power. |
Reward power | Obtaining compliance with promised or actual rewards. |
Coercive power | Obtaining compliance through threatened or actual punishment. |
Legitimate power | Obtaining compliance through formal authority. |
Expert power | Obtaining compliance through one’s knowledge or information. |
Referent power | Obtaining compliance through charisma or personal attraction. |
Empowerment | Sharing varying degrees of power with lower-level employees to tap their full potential. |
Participative management | employees play a direct role in (1) setting goals, (2) making decisions, (3) solving problems, and (4) making changes in the organization. |
Delegation | Granting decision-making authority to people at lower levels |
Personal initiative | Going beyond formal job requirements and being an active self-starter. |
Organizational politics | Intentional enhancement of self-interest. |
what are the five common sources of uncertainty? | Unclear objectives, Vague performance measures, Ill-defined decision process, Strong individual or group competition, and any type of change. |
What are the 3 levels of political action? | Network, Coalition, and Individual Levels. |
Network Level | Cooperative pursuit of general self-interests |
Coalition level | Cooperative pursuit of group interests in specific issues |
Individual Level | Individual pursuit of general self-interests |
Coalition | Temporary groupings of people who actively pursue a single issue |
What are the 8 political tactics? | 1. Attacking or blaming others, Using information as a political tool, reating a favorable image. (impression management.),Developing a base of support, Praising others (ingratiation), Forming power coalitions with strong allies, Associating with influent |
Attacking or blaming others | Used to avoid or minimize association with failure. Reactive when scapegoating is involved. Proactive when goal is to reduce competition for limited resources. |
Using information as a political tool | Involves the purposeful withholding or distortion of information. Obscuring an unfavorable situation by overwhelming superiors with inforation. |
Creating a favorable image (Impression Management) | Dressing/Grooming for success. Adhering to organizational norms and drawing attention to one's successes and influence. Taking credit for theres' accomplishments. |
Developing a base of support | Getting prior support for a decision. Building others' commitment to a decision through participation. |
Praising others (ingratiation) | Making influential people feel good ("apple polishing") |
Forming power coalitions with strong allies | Teaming up with powerful people who can get results |
Associating with influential people | Building a support network both inside and outside the organization |
Building obligations (Reciprocity) | Creating social debts ("I did you a favor, so you owe me a favor") |
Impression management | Getting others to see us in a certain manner. |
What are four motives for poor impression? | Avoidance, Obtain concrete rewards, Exit, Power. |
Avoidance | Employee seeks to avoid additional work, stress, burnout, or an unwanted transfer or promotion. |
Obtain concrete rewards | Employee seeks to obtain a pay raise or a desired transfer, promotion, or demotion. |
Exit | Employee seeks to get laid off, fired, or suspended, and perhaps also to collect unemployment or workers’ compensation. |
Power | Employee seeks to control, manipulate, or intimidate others, get revenge, or make someone else look bad. |
what are 5 unfavorable upward impression management tactics? | Decreasing performance, Not working to potential, Withdrawing, Displaying a bad attitude, Broadcasting limitations. |
Decreasing performance | restricting productivity, making more mistakes than usual, lowering quality, neglecting tasks. |
Not working to potential | pretending ignorance, having unused capabilities. |
Withdrawing | being tardy, taking excessive breaks, faking illness. |
Displaying a bad attitude | complaining, getting upset and angry, acting strangely, not getting along with coworkers. |
Broadcasting limitations | letting coworkers know about one’s physical problems and mistakes, both verbally and non-verbally. |
External forces for change | Originate outside the organization. |
Internal forces for change | Originate inside the organization. |
Benchmarking | Process by which a company compares its performance with that of high-performing organizations. |
Mission statement | Summarizes “why” an organization exists. |
Target elements of change | Components of an organization that may be changed. |
Organization development | A set of techniques or tools used to implement planned organizational change. |
Change agent | Individual who is a catalyst in helping organizations to implement change. |
Resistance to change | Emotional/behavioral response to real or imagined work changes. |
Resilience to change | Composite personal characteristic reflecting high self-esteem, optimism, and an internal locus of control. |
Fight-or-flight response | To either confront stressors or try to avoid them. |
Stress | Behavioral, physical, or psychological response to stressors. |
Eustress | Stress that is good or produces a positive outcome. |
Stressors | Environmental factors that produce stress. |
Primary appraisal | Determining whether a stressor is irrelevant, positive, or stressful. |
Secondary appraisal | Assessing what might and can be done to reduce stress. |
Control strategy | Coping strategy that directly confronts or solves problems. |
Escape strategy | Coping strategy that avoids or ignores stressors and problems. |
Symptom management strategy | Coping strategy that focuses on reducing the symptoms of stress. |
Social support | Amount of helpfulness derived from social relationships. |
Hardiness | Personality characteristic that neutralizes stress. |
Type A behavior pattern | Aggressively involved in a chronic, determined struggle to accomplish more in less time. |