Question

1.Employees often perform work tasks simply because their bosses tell them to do so. This is an example of __________ power.

expert

legitimate

referent

reward

2. Brianna is trying to increase her chances of being promoted to vice president by working to build good work relationships with other managers outside her own department.  Brianna's behavior should be viewed as

dysfunctional politics.

functional politics.

coercive power.

functional influence.

3. Tara wants the Vice President of the Gingerbread Factory to know about the sudden resignation of one of her co-workers but she suspects that it will take several days for that news to travel through the formal channels. Tara mentions the news to her office manager in passing, knowing that the office manager has lunch with the VP's administrative assistant every day. Tara is assuming which communication method will get that message up to the VP?

The Y chain

The Circle

The Grapevine

The All-Channel

4. Censoring a message is characteristic of filtering.

True

False

5. In a university setting, professors are typically designated as

line employees.

staff employees.

both line and staff employees.

neither line nor staff employees.

Answer 1

Answer-1.legitimate

Explaination-The meaning of legitimate is to work in accordance with the law or established legal forms .So her to obey the boss and perform the task as he said is the legitimate power.

Answer-2.functional influence

EXplaination-Functional influence is Reinforce,REmind and Reward.It means we try to function progressively to reward our work .So here in this question . Brianna is trying to make good relationships with other managers to influence upon his or her work.

Answer-3The Grapevine

Explaination-This method is used to do informal talk from person to person for circulating gossips.So this method is assumed by Tara to transfer the message .

Answer-4True

EXplaination-Censoring is to examine the message ,content ,film and information etc officially and suppress unacceptable parts of it.So it is the act of filteration of some good or bad facts in any content.

Answer-5Staff employees