Question: What are the individual and organizational approaches to managing stress?

Powerand theChangingEnvironment

Objectives: 1. To describe the forces for change influencing power differentials in organizational and interpersonal relationships.

2. To understand the effect of technological, legal/ political, economic, and social changes on the power of individuals within an organization.

The Situation Your organization manufactures golf carts and sells them to country clubs, golf courses, and consumers. Your team is faced with the task of assessing how environmental changes will affect individuals' organizational power. Read each of the five scenarios and then, for each, identify the five members in the organization whose power will increase most in light of the environmental condition(s). [ Note: m = male, (f) = female.]
- Accountant/CPA (m)

- Advertising expert (m)

- Chemist (m)

- Chief financial officer (f)

- Computer programmer (f)

- Corporate trainer (m)

- General manager (m)

- Human resource manager (f)

- Industrial engineer (m)

- In-house counsel (m)

- Marketing manager (f)

- Operations manager (f)

- Product designer (m)

- Public relations expert (m)

- Securities analyst (m)