Management - Organizational Behavior Ch. 13
Organizational Behavior, Version 1.1
Bauer & Erdogan
FWK Test Item File
Chapter 13
TRUE/FALSE
1.Power is the ability to get things done the way you want them to be done.
(True)
2.Power distribution is usually not visible in organizations.
(False)
3.Power has negative consequences but never has positive consequences.
(False)
4.One reason why power can be so easily abused is because individuals are quick to conform.
(True)
5.Conformity is people’s tendencies to behave consistently with social norms.
(True)
6.The Milgram, Asch, and Hawthorne studies illustrate how important it is to create checks and
balances to help individuals resist the tendency to conform or abuse authority.
(False)
7.In the Milgram studies, participants were willing to administer harmful levels of voltage to learners
when those learners provided incorrect answers.
(True)
8.The Asch experiments showed that a dissenting minority does not have much power.
(False)
9.Meta-analysis suggests that the level of conformity in the United States has been increasing
since the 1950s.
(False)
10.The Zimbardo experiment was stopped early because all parties involved became too
entrenched in their experimental roles.
(True)
11.The more that a party is dependent upon you, the less power you have.
(False)
12.The scarcer a resource is that you control, the more power you possess.
(True)
13.The more vital the resource you control, the greater the level of power you possess.
