SCENARIO 4 — MLO 3.4 — Read carefully before answering Quest…

Questions

SCENARIO 4 — MLO 3.4 — Reаd cаrefully befоre аnswering Questiоns 13 thrоugh 16. A university provost announces that three academic departments will be consolidated into two due to budget constraints. No decision has been made yet about which departments will merge or which chair will lead the consolidated unit. Within days, department chairs begin meeting privately with deans, commissioning enrollment reports that favor their own programs, and building alliances with faculty governance committees. One chair selectively shares data that makes a competing department look under-enrolled while withholding data that would complicate her own program's case. QUESTION 13 OF 4: Which TWO organizational conditions are MOST directly triggering the political behavior in this scenario? Select the answer that correctly identifies both.