Playing the "Face Game" Potentially Increases a Lower-Level Employee's Power

question 162

Multiple Choice

Playing the "face game" potentially increases a lower-level employee's power by increasing:

• A) the employee's coercive power.
• B) the employee's visibility.
• C) how quickly other people are affected by the employee's actions.
• D) the employee's ability to cope with organizational uncertainties.
• E) the employee's substitutability.

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Definitions:

Bottom-Up Processing

An approach to information processing that starts with small details and works up to a complete perception.

Feature Processing

In psychology, feature processing is the method through which the brain identifies and processes distinct elements of an object or scene, such as color, shape, or motion.

Top-Down Processing

An approach to perception that involves higher-level cognitive processes, such as expectations and previous knowledge, to interpret sensory information.