Cornelius Coneticus, a Latin American man, was highly sought after receiving his PhD in accounting. Today, he is a tenured professor at a small teaching college in the Midwest. The Department of Accounting (DA) has ten faculty members; it is one of six departments in the Wilma School of Business (WSB). The accounting department chair is Hermione Mandragora, in her first year as chair. Five faculty members, including Jose, have been in the department longer than Hermione. Hermione likes to have policies in place so faculty members can guide their behaviour. On the college-wide level, however, there is no policy about the graduate assistant job. Hermione asked the dean of the SB about the policy. After a discussion with the vice president for academic affairs, the dean told Hermione that there was no policy. The vice president and dean suggested letting the individual departments develop their policy regarding what graduate assistants can and cannot do in their position. So, Hermione made developing a policy for graduate assistants an agenda item for the department meeting.

During the DA meeting, Hermione asked for members' views on what graduate assistants should and should not be allowed to do. She was hoping that the department could come to a consensus on a policy. It turns out that Cornelius was the only faculty member using graduate assistants to grade exams. Two other faculty members speak out against having graduate assistants grade exams. They believe it is the professor's job to grade exams. Cornelius makes a few statements in hopes of not having to correct his exams. Because his exams are objective and require a correct answer, Cornelius believes it's not necessary for him to grade the exams personally. He also points out that other faculty members are using graduate assistants to teach entire courses and correct subjective papers and exams across the campus and the country. Cornelius states that he does not think it fair that he can no longer use graduate assistants to grade objective exams when others are doing so. He also states that the department does not need a policy and requests that the department not set a policy. However, Hermione states that she wants a policy. Cornelius is the only one to speak in favour of allowing graduate assistants to grade exams, although three others made no comments either way. But, after the meeting, one other member, Atilla Mandrake, who said nothing during the meeting, tells Cornelius he agrees that denying him this use of a graduate assistant is not fair.

There was no department consensus, as Hermione hoped there would be. She said she would draft a department policy, which will be discussed at a future DA meeting. The next day, Cornelius sent a memo to department members asking if it was ethical and legal to deny him the same resources others were using across the campus. Cornelius also states that if the department states that he can no longer use graduate assistants to correct objective exams, he will appeal the policy decision to the dean, vice president, and president.

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(a) What source of power does Hermione have, and (b) what type of power is she using? (c) Which influencing tactic is Hermione using during the meeting? (d) Is negotiation and/or the (e) exchange tactic appropriate in this situation?

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