Organizational Behavior (Stephen Robbins)
OB AT WORK For Review 1. What is power? How do you get it? Contrast the bases of power and influence tactics. What are some of ...
Chapter 7Power and Politics 243 OBAT WORK “Special Deals” Hurt the Work Environment Making special deals with certain employees ...
OBAT WORK 244 Part 3Interacting Effectively LEARNING ABOUT YOURSELF EXERCISE How Political Are You? To determine your political ...
Chapter 7Power and Politics 245 OBAT WORK WORKINGWITH OTHERS EXERCISE Understanding Bases of Power Step 1 : Your instructor will ...
OBAT WORK 246 Part 3Interacting Effectively CASEINCIDENT The Power of Bill Fowler at Blackmer/Dover Resources Step 6 : Your inst ...
Chapter 7Power and Politics 247 OBAT WORK Today, the plant’s employees receive a straight hourly wage. To make the plant more fl ...
OBAT WORK 248 Part 3Interacting Effectively Forget, for a moment, the ethics of politicking and any nega- tive impressions you m ...
Chapter 7Power and Politics 249 OBAT WORK bility, or your specific contribution may be indistin- guishable because you are part ...
250 OB ON THE EDGE It’s not unusual to find the following employee behaviours in today’s work- place: Answering the phone with a ...
251 What’s Happening in Our Workplaces? Workplaces today are receiving highly critical reviews, being called everything from “un ...
252 ‘a little angry’ at work.”^21 A 2000 Gallup poll conducted in the United States found that 25 percent of the working adults ...
253 employer may have had no such intention, and may even be thinking that the employee should be grate- ful simply to have a jo ...
254 loyalty, a decreased sense that respondent values and the organiza- tion’s values are similar, a decreased sense that the em ...
255 on business issues. Managing emo- tional pain is one of their means.”^46 The inset How Toxin Handlers Alleviate Organization ...
2 3 4 5 6 Are there specific traits, behaviours, and situations that affect how one leads? 1 What is the difference between a ma ...
OB IS FOR EVERYONE Have you ever wondered if there was one rightway to lead? Is a leader always necessary? Can anyone be a leade ...
In our discussion of leadership, we will focus on two major tasks of those who lead in organizations: managing those around them ...
particular behaviours make for better leaders; and (3) contingency theories, which pro- pose the situation has an effect on lead ...
What Types of Traits Sre Preferred in Leaders? Remember the GLOBE study we discussed in Chapter 3? As part of that study, resear ...
This chapter’s Point/Counterpointon page 285 raises further issues on the extent to which leadership is affected by national cul ...
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