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Add to cartHow does the power school characterize strategy formation?
As an overt process of influence, emphasizing the use of power and politics to negotiate strategies favorable to interests.
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The school emphasizes the effect of power on decisions made and thus strategies formed. Why power?
Power can make 'doing business' easier. It moves from the idea of strategy as a product of a single architect of team to a product of different groups.
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Where lies the uniqueness of the power school?
- The power school does not assume all individuals within the organization have the same interests. Think of different departments having conflicting goals, which requires negotiation between different 'levels of power'.
- Middle and top managers have their own targets (and bonuses).
- Middle and top managers' ambition is to become more powerful, which could create tendency to not talk about mistakes because it could limit power.
- To exert and gain power, individuals use politics.
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What is the definition of power?
The exercise of influence beyond the purely economic, most of the time political. Almost all imaginable organizations are at least mildly and occasionally political.
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What is the definition of politics in management theory?
The management of influence to obtain ends not sanctioned by the organization.
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Which 2 forms takes political behavior typically?
- Forming coalitions and using them.
- Withholding and manipulating information.
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Zald and berger have described 3 social movements in organizations, which?
1. Coup d'etat: the seizure of power from within, where the objective is to displace the authority holders while keeping the authority intact.
2. Insurgency: changing an aspect of organizational function.
3. Mass movements: collective attempts to express grievances and discontent or to promote or resist change.
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What are premises of the power school?
- Strategy formation is shaped by power and politics.
- Micro power sees strategy formation as a process involving coalition formation persuasion and bargaining.
- Strategies tend to be emergent.
- Strategies emerge through decisions.
- Macro power sees the organization as seeking advantage through strategic maneuvering, cooperation and collective strategies.
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Create quizOrganization and environment - Chapter 8: Power School
Strategy formation as a process of negotiation.
47 questions
Nederlands
06-06-2024
Universiteit / Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen / Business Administration
How does the power school characterize strategy formation?
As an overt process of influence, emphasizing the use of power and politics to negotiate strategies favorable to interests.The school emphasizes the effect of power on decisions made and thus strategies formed. Why power?
Power can make 'doing business' easier. It moves from the idea of strategy as a product of a single architect of team to a product of different groups.Where lies the uniqueness of the power school?
- The power school does not assume all individuals within the organization have the same interests. Think of different departments having conflicting goals, which requires negotiation between different 'levels of power'.What is the definition of power?
The exercise of influence beyond the purely economic, most of the time political. Almost all imaginable organizations are at least mildly and occasionally political.What is the definition of politics in management theory?
The management of influence to obtain ends not sanctioned by the organization.Which 2 forms takes political behavior typically?
- Forming coalitions and using them.Zald and berger have described 3 social movements in organizations, which?
1. Coup d'etat: the seizure of power from within, where the objective is to displace the authority holders while keeping the authority intact.What are premises of the power school?
- Strategy formation is shaped by power and politics.What does the emergent character of the power school mean for strategy formulation?
What are the two levels of analysis in power?
How does micro power sees strategy?
What did Bolman and Deal say about the premise: organizations are coalitions of individuals and interest groups?
What are the positive outcomes of micro power?
What are the negative outcomes of micro power?
What are the functional roles/benefits of politics in organizations?
What is the biggest negative aspect of politics?
What is the upper echelons theory?
How does macro power sees the organization?
What does macro power concerns?
Macro power deals with stakeholders and controls them by which objectives/
What is macro power due to the resource dependence theory of Pfeffer and Salanick (1978)?
How is macro power expressed?
Macro power can result in?
What are 3 types of tactics to respond to these different stakeholders?
What are strategies for external control, to make use of stakeholders?
Stakeholder analysis is an attempt to cope with political forces through a rational approach. Which kinds of analysis can you do?
Organizations can maneuver strategies to attain their objectives. What are 2 points Henderson emphasizes about it?
Co-operative strategy making can look like?
What are non-legitimacy tactics the power school uses in contradiction to the positioning school?
What are limitations of the power school?
When doesn't it make sense that strategy formation is a process of devoid of power and politics?
What are contributions of the power school?
What is the concept of power?
What is the concept of power in the context of strategy?
Who are the originals/creators/formers of the power school?
How is micro power expressed in political games?
What are characteristics and assumptions of the power school?
What is 'the just-world fallacy'?
Who is the central actor?
How is the strategy formed?
What is most important?
How is the environment viewed?
Complex or simple strategies?
Loose collection of components or tightly integrated?
Unique or generic strategies?
How does the organization change?
Fits best with which organizations?