Which one of the following is a distinct characteristic of formal authority?
1 Formal authority is vested in people, not organisational positions.
2 Formal authority is accepted by subordinates.
3 Formal authority flows up the vertical hierarchy of an organisation.
4 Formal authority is only present in centralised structures.
Formal authority is a right to control resources and direct people that applies to a particular context.
Three characteristics of authority are:
So, the correct answer is 2.
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