Mike Ford is a senior accountant at Coleman and Co., which is a financial management company. Mike has wanted to be on the board of representatives of his company for a long time but the company stipulates a minimum number of years an employee must work at the organization before he makes it to the board. Mike is unwilling to work two more years to reach that stipulated experience and so he found a way to transgress this rule. He met up with one of the existing board members who was having problems accounting for allocated funds that went missing and offered to settle that for him in his department provided he nominate Mike to the board. Which of the following power tactics is being used here?

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The power tactic being used here is exchange. Mike is offering to settle the missing funds in exchange for a nomination to the board. This is a quid pro quo exchange where both parties benefit from the exchange.

Mike Ford Is a Senior Accountant at Coleman and Co