Summarize your performance improvement plan for your classmates. Consider organizational culture and structure as you review your plan. 

• What parts of your plan are likely to be most influenced by:
• Organizational structure?
• Organizational culture?
• Discuss how each of these influences the problem and can streamline solutions.
• How would you navigate them?

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What role does countervailing power play in the power relationship? Give an example of one of your own encounters with countervailing power at school or work.

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Discuss the eight influence tactics described in this chapter in terms of how they are used by students to influence their college instructors or at work. Which influence tactic is applied most often? Which is applied least often, in your opinion? To what extent is each influence tactic considered legitimate behavior or organizational politics?

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Leaders of large organizations struggle to identify the best level and types of centralization and decentralization. What should companies consider when determining the degree of decentralization? Justify your response.

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"Organizations are more likely to succeed when they have an adaptive culture." What can an organization do to foster an adaptive culture?

Senior officers of a city government have assigned you the project of identifying ways to reinforce a new culture of teamwork and collaboration. The senior executives clearly support these values, but they want everyone in the organization to embrace them. Identify four types of activities that would strengthen these cultural values.