CEO Decision Making Questions:

$1)$ What were the types of power and the sources of power did Carl, the CEO, have?

Evaluate the differences between his various types of position power and personal power.

$2)$ What was the influence tactic that Carl used to convince the Prairie Health Services

Board of Directors to approve the software purchase?

$3)$ Discuss the ethics of Carl$$s professional behavior.

$4)$ How might the Board have structured their management team to reduce the power of one

person over four separate and unique divisions?

$5)$ Should a return on investment $($ROI$)$ calculation be required before a technology

acquisition of this magnitude is made? Justify your answer.

$6)$ How could the Board of Directors have made a better decision? What could the Board

and$/$or CEO have done to cut their losses incurred as a result of purchasing an inefficient

software package?