List eight organizations you somehow rely on in your daily

Question

Workbook: Organizations You Rely On

Below, list eight organizations you somehow rely on in your daily life.

Examples might be a restaurant, a clothing or CD store, a university, your family, the post office, the telephone company, an airline, a pizzeria that delivers, your place of work, and so on. In the first column, list those eight organizations. Then, in column 2, choose another organization you could use in case the ones in column 1 were not available. In column 3, evaluate your level of dependence on the organizations listed in column 1 as Strong, Medium, or Weak. Finally, in column 4, rate the certainty of that organization being able to meet your needs as High (certainty), Medium, or Low.

Organization         Backup organization    level of dependence   level of centenaity

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2.
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4.
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Organization        Backup organization    level of dependence      level of certainty              

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Questions

1. Do you have adequate backup organizations for those of high dependence? How might you create even more backups?

2. What would you do if an organization you rated high for dependence and high for certainty suddenly became high-dependence and low-certainty? How would your behavior relate to the concept of resource dependence?

3. Have you ever used any behaviors similar to those in Exhibit 4.8 to manage your relationships with the organizations listed in column 1?