Forms of authority and influence

1. How many types of authority does Max Weber distinguish?

a) 2;

b) 3;

c) 4;

d) 5.

2. Traditional authority is:

a) a form of leadership in which the authority of the government is largely tied to tradition or custom;

b) the formal or legitimate authority specified in a charter that gives a project manager the authority to act in the name of the sponsoring executive;

c) a form of management in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to tradition or custom;

d) a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to tradition or custom.

3. When charismatic authority does exist?

a) when the control of others is based on an individual’s personal characteristics, such as kindness and honesty;

b) when the control of others is based on an individual’s personal characteristics, such as extraordinary ethical, heroic or religious virtuosity;

c) when the control of others is based not on individual’s personal characteristics, such as extraordinary ethical, heroic or religious virtuosity;

d) no right answer.

4. Rational-legal authority is:

a) a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to tradition or custom;

b) a form of management in which the authority of an organization is tied to tradition;

c) is authority based on nothing other than an individual’s own charisma;

d) a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy and bureaucracy.

5. According to Weber, in rational-legal authority power struggles could be based on:

a) nationalism and ethnicity;

b) mostly political struggles and nationalism;

c) ethnicity, nationalism, not classism and political struggles;

d) not classism and nationalism.

6. The kings and queens in the English monarchy system belong to:

a) charismatic authority;

b) rational-legal authority;

c) traditional authority;

d) no right answer.

7. What is Charismatic authority?

a) is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to tradition or custom;

b) is authority based on nothing other than an individual’s own charisma; not through experience, service or some legal means; just charisma;

c) is authority based on experience, service or some legal means;

d) is authority based on service or some legal means.

8. Choose important indicators of contemporary charisma:

a) democratic attitudes, reliability, clear expectations, determination, dignity, initiatives, commitment and involvement;

b) reliability, clear expectations, determination and dignity;

c) initiatives, politeness, sociability;

d) clear expectations, determination.

9. According to Weber, once the leader loses his charisma or dies, systems based on charismatic authority tend to transform into:

a) traditional or legal-rational systems;

b) traditional system;

c) legal-rational systems;

d) systems based on charismatic authority don’t tend to transform.

10. A rational-legal form of authority is characterized by:

a) abstract legality and stability and is based on balancing all everyday activities which are repetitive; it contains a system of rational rules;

b) abstract legality and stability;

c) containing a system of rational rules;

d) no right answer.

11. Choose the main forms of influence.

a) rewards, indoctrination, punishments;

b) punishments and threats;

c) suggestions and orders;

d) orders and rewards.

12. What can be the forms of influence?

a) suggestion, conviction, request, threat, bribery, order;

b) fines, restorative justice, conviction;

c) request, restitution, probation;

d) imprisonment, request, threat, bribery.

13. What is suggestion?

a) is the process of inculcating ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or a professional methodology;

b) is a consequence of an activity that encourages less of that activity;

c) is the psychological process by which one person guides the thoughts, feelings, or behavior of another;

d) is the process of inculcating ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or a professional methodology.

14. What is threat?

a) is the process of inculcating ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or a professional methodology;

b) is an act of coercion wherein an act is proposed to elicit a negative response;

c) is an act of coercion wherein an act is proposed to elicit a positive response;

d) is a consequence of an activity that encourages more of that activity.

15. Indoctrination is:

a) is the process of inculcating ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or a professional methodology;

b) is an act of coercion wherein an act is proposed to elicit a negative response;

c) is a consequence of an activity that encourages more of that activity;

d) is a consequence of an activity that encourages less of that activity.

16. A reward is:

a) is a consequence of an activity that encourages less of that activity;

b) is an act of giving money or gift giving that alter the behavior of the recipient;

c) is the psychological process by which one person guides the thoughts, feelings, or behavior of another;

d) is a consequence of an activity that encourages more of that activity.

17. Punishment is:

a) is the process of inculcating ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or a professional methodology;

b) is a consequence of an activity that encourages more of that activity;

c) is an act of giving money or gift giving that alter the behavior of the recipient;

d) is a consequence of an activity that encourages less of that activity.

18. What does bribery mean?

a) is an act of giving money or gift giving that alters the behavior of the recipient;

b) is the psychological process by which one person guides the thoughts, feelings, or behavior of another;

c) is an act of giving money or gift giving that doesn’t alter the behavior of the recipient;

d) is an act of giving advices that alters the behavior of the recipient.

19. Choose examples of reward packages to motivate employees:

a) compensation, time off, threat;

b) compensation, time off, recognition;

c) money, compensation;

d) orders, time off, recognition.

20. Is punishment better than positive reinforcement?

a) the downside of using punishment is that it can’t make the punished feel coerced and sometimes trapped;

b) in extreme cases positive reinforcement actually lash out against the punisher in an act of retribution;

c) positive reinforcement can also push people in the wrong direction;

d) punishment is not simply the opposite of positive reinforcement; positive reinforcement results in lasting behavioral modification, whereas punishment changes behavior only temporarily and presents many detrimental side effects.

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