Which of These Statements About Legitimate Power Is FALSE

question 60

Multiple Choice

Which of these statements about legitimate power is FALSE?

• A)Legitimate power depends on more than job descriptions.
• B)Employees in the high power distance culture tend to have higher obedience to authority.
• C)Your boss's power to make you work overtime partly depends on your agreement to this power.
• D)Some people are less obedient than others to authority, particularly those who value conformity and tradition.
• E)All employees have some degree of legitimate power.

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Definitions:

Incorrect Decision

A decision based on data analysis or hypothesis testing that incorrectly accepts the null hypothesis or wrongly rejects it, leading to a Type I or Type II error.

Type II Error

The error that occurs when a statistical test fails to reject a false null hypothesis; also known as a "false negative."

True Null Hypothesis

The assumption or premise that there is no effect, difference, or relationship between the variables being studied, which might be rejected or not rejected based on statistical analysis.

Rejecting

In statistical hypothesis testing, the act of concluding that the null hypothesis is unlikely given the data, often signaled by a test statistic that falls outside a specified significance level.