Below, list eight organizations you somehow rely on in another organization you could use in case the ones in your daily life. Examples might be a restaurant, a cloth. column 1 were not available. In column 3, evaluate your ing or CD store, a university, your family, the post office, level of dependence on the organizations listed in column 1 the telephone company, an airline, a pizzeria that deliv. as Strong, Medium, or Weak. Finally, in column 4, rate ers, your place of work, and so on. In the first column, the certainty of that organization being able to meet your list those eight organizations. Then, in column 2, choose needs as High (certainty, Medium, or Low. Organization Backup Organization Level of Dependence Level of certainty 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Organization Backup Organization Level of Dependence Level of Certainty stions 3. Have you ever used any behaviors similar to those in Do you have adequate backup organizations for those Exhibit 4.8 to manage your relationships with the orga- of high dependence? How might you create even more nizations listed in column 1? backups? What would you do if an organization you rated high *Adapted by Dorothy Marcic from Organizational for dependence and high for certainty suddenly became Dependencies," in Ricky W. Griffin and Thomas high-dependence and low-certainty? How would your C. Head, Practicing Management, 2nd ed. (Dallas: behavior relate to the concept of resource dependence Houghton Mifflin), 2-3. Below, list eight organizations you somehow rely on in another organization you could use in case the ones in your daily life. Examples might be a restaurant, a cloth column 1 were not available. In column 3, evaluate your ing or CD store, a university, your family, the post office, level of dependence on the organizations listed in column 1 the telephone company, an airline, a pizzeria that deliv as Strong, Medium, or Weak. Finally, in column 4, rate ers, your place of work, and so on. In the first column, the certainty of that organization being able to meet your list those eight organizations. Then, in column 2, choose needs as High (certainty), Medium, or Low. Organization Backup Organization Level of Dependence Level of certainty stions 3. Have you ever used any behaviors similar to those in Do you have adequate backup organizations for those Exhibit 4.8 to manage your relationships with the orga- of high dependence? How might you create even more nizations listed in column 1? backups? What would you do if an organization you rated high *Adapted by Dorothy Marcic from "Organizational for dependence and high for certainty suddenly became Dependencies," in Ricky W. Griffin and Thomas high-dependence and low-certainty? How would your C. Head, Practicing Management, 2nd ed. (Dallas: behavior relate to the concept of resource dependence? Houghton Mifflin), 2-3
