We investigate the means by which academic tracking influences students' friendship choices. Our results suggest that track placements affect friendship choices by encouraging more interaction within tracks, by causing a greater similarity among students within tracks, and because tracks are a generally recognized status hierarchy among students. We extend these basic ideas by considering how additional information on legtimiate authority also shapes power estimates in an intraorganizational conflict.
Results indicate that information on both forms of power is used to make power estimates.
Specifically, higher manager's alternatives and authorization are related positively to perceived manager's power. Higher subordinate's alternatives are related negatively to manager's power. Possible reasons for small effects of endorsement on power assessments are discussed. In contrast to most previous work with these and similar national survey data, we find that earnings are affected strongly both by an orientation toward challenge, and by a sense of personal control. The effects of these measures, if anything, increase with the measurement interval between the traits and subsequent earnings.