You Have Just Been Hired as a Consultant for a Large

question 25

Multiple Choice

You have just been hired as a consultant for a large company to analyze some project teams and to report on how power is distributed within them. On your first day, you immediately notice that one person is late to the meeting and is dressed a little more casually than the others. In the discussion, this person is the one who initiates the topics, seems to interrupt, and closes the meeting. Based on which principle of power would you say that this person is more powerful than the others?

• A) the scarcity principle
• B) the principle of elevation
• C) the prerogative principle
• D) the principle that power can enable or disable

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