Horace Aronson is director of personnel of a small manufacturing firm in the Southwest. As such, he can hire and fire workers, review their performance, and set work schedules. Very often he makes decisions that his subordinates do not like, but they go along with them anyway. This is an example of which of the following?

a. authority
b. charisma
c. influence
d. strength


A

Sociology

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