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The management of a community hospital is forming a committee to plan for an increase in patients due to the upcoming influenza season. The managers decide that an immunologist is the best person to lead the committee because the immunologist has which type of situation-specific power?
Expert
Coercive
Legitimate
Reward
In 2017, a U.S. attorney was fired by the U.S. president for refusing to take a personal phone call from him. At the time, the U.S. attorney’s office was being asked to investigate illegal activity suspected to have occurred at several of the president’s businesses. Which type of power was the president was likely attempting to exert over the attorney?
Referent
Expert
Reward
Coercive
A focus group compared a publisher’s prototypes for a new textbook chapter. The group session lasted for 30 minutes. People observing the focus group noted that Person A spoke for 15 minutes, Person B spoke for 9 minutes, Person C spoke for 5 minutes, and Person D spoke for 1 minute. The focus group facilitator did not speak, but she called on members to speak as they raised their hands. Which of these individuals was the most powerful person in the meeting?
Person C
Person A
The facilitator
Person B
In the early months of 2019, a test of wills emerged between U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and U.S. President Donald Trump. The issue at hand was how to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. In the end, the Speaker “won.” In fact, political pundits reported that she used raw power to beat the president at his own game. Which piece of evidence from research appears to explain Pelosi’s success?
When women are in positions of power, they are likely to use strategies associated with power.
When women are in positions of power, they tend to have the support of large numbers of women.
When women are in positions of power, they tend to stand their ground and refuse to negotiate.
When women are in positions of power, they tend to spend as much time as men speaking.
Two U.S.-based executives of a fair-trade company travel to Bolivia to meet with members of a local cooperative that manufactures textiles for export. The executives become frustrated with the members over the time it takes the cooperative to come to a decision. Which of the following most likely explains the reasons for the frustration on the executives’ part?
Lack of understanding of power in collective cultures
Unfamiliarity with power structures in fair trade
Lack of understanding of power in individual cultures
Unfamiliarity with the local community’s government
The extent to which a person feels confident in acting on the basis of the words, actions, and decisions of another is called
belief.
reliance.
loyalty.
trust.
A car-hailing service has endured a series of scandals involving its executive team. If you were hired as a consultant to rebuild internal trust within the organization, which of these would be the best suggestion to offer to management?
Encourage the executive team to meet with front-line employees.
Find and fire the people responsible for the scandals.
Use business jargon in all company communications.
Apply one management style to all situations.
In the 1988 film Working Girl, an executive encourages her assistant to share her ideas about how one of their clients might benefit by merging with another company. The executive later attempts to take credit for her assistant’s ideas. Which outcome is most likely to occur between the assistant and the executive as a result of this incident?
The assistant will not trust the executive.
The assistant will take legal action against the executive.
The assistant will quit working for the company.
The assistant will take credit for one of the executive’s ideas.
Glen is having his first meeting with a virtual project team. The team members are located all over the world. Which of these steps is something that Glen can do to build trust with his team members?
Hold at least one face-to-face meeting on site
Interrupt the meeting to answer a stakeholder’s call
Let team members choose their own collaboration tools
Make sure he answers all communications within a day
Research has shown that the level of trust among virtual team members
develops at the same rate as it does for teams that meet only face-to-face.
improves when the team leader gives more decision-making power to the team members.
develops more rapidly when participants have at least one face-to-face interaction.
improves when the team leader holds more frequent team meetings.
Bob arrives at a team meeting several minutes late. He is trying his best not to show emotion at the meeting, but the other participants notice that he is upset about something. Which of these interactions is Carol, a meeting participant, most likely to have with Bob when the meeting ends?
Carol will ask Bob what is upsetting him.
Carol will tell Bob not to show emotion in meetings.
Carol will talk with Bob about an issue raised at the meeting.
Carol will leave the meeting room without speaking with Bob.
A project team composed of people from the United States and from China is having an on-site meeting. The Chinese team leader introduces Xiao as the person who brings the coffee and tea. The American team members wonder why Xiao was not introduced in the context of her role in the project. Which of these provides the best explanation?
Asians introduce people by describing personal details about them.
Americans describe people by their actions.
Americans introduce people by describing personal details about them.
Asians describe people by their actions.
A project team composed of American and Italian team members held an on-site meeting. The American team members became annoyed with the Italian team members, who always seemed to be interrupting. When the project manager asked one of the Italian team members about the behavior, she replied, “They were showing that they were very interested in the discussion.” This is an example of how cultural differences influence
decision making.
conversational styles.
social protocols.
norm-setting.
A project team is composed of members from the United States and from Germany. The American team members have been frustrated with the German team members because they insist on completing each sequential step of the project before the group proceeds with the next step. To the Americans, the Germans appear to have which kind of time orientation?
Cyclic
Monochronic
Polychronic
Linear
A publisher recently created an open-concept office environment with the intention that team members would interact more with one another. However, the digital products team became frustrated with the distractions created by the office environment and took over one of the private conference rooms. Which of the following best describes the digital products team’s approach to time?
Separation
Concurrency
Flexible
Consecutive
