When the contract with one of their major suppliers was about to expire, the management of pierre and collins began seeking tenders from potential vendors. one of the top management executives, todd hughes, wanted the contract to go to a vendor he personally knew. in order to do so, he held separate discussions with two key members of the organization wherein he downplayed the potentials of the competing tenders and convinced them to support this offer. at the meeting to finalize a supplier, todd and his supporters strongly supported the tender of the supplier they had chosen amongst themselves and convinced their ceo to hire this supplier despite the higher price quoted by him. which of the following power tactics is being used here? a) ingratiation b) legitimacy c) coalition d) pressure e) inspirational appeals

Choose the best example of an indirect confrontation for the following situation: peter, a local school board member hired john whom owns a local print shop to make custom t-shirts for his son's basketball team, the ravens. they are about to play their final game of the year and are having a party to celebrate their semi-finalist rankings. unfortunately, the printer made a mistake and printed on red/blue shirts instead of black/blue which are the team's actual colors. peter explains to john that the team's colors are black/blue instead of red/blue and asks john what he thinks they should do. peter explains to john that the team's colors are black/blue and demands that john re-print the shirts on the correct colors. peter agrees to take the red/blue shirts but then posts a negative yelp review on john's business. peter agrees to take the red/blue shirts but tells everyone he can in the school about the incident and tells them not to buy from john. peter rejects the shirts and files a lawsuit to attempt to recover the down payment he made to john.