1. What types of power and influence are organizations using when they require employees to sign over their creative rights to the company? Why are these tactics effective?

2. Do the results of the Lobel and Amir study fit with ways the chapter describes employee reactions to organizational politics? Why or why not?

3. What are some ways a company might try to prevent supervisors from stealing employee ideas and damaging motivation?

4. Consider the idea of productive (or positive) organizational politics and what that might entail if Sophia Kim's boss had chosen that route to managing her (and her idea).

 

Reference

Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. (2017). Organizational behavior. Pearson.