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Flashcards by Josefine Marie, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Josefine Marie
about 4 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Personal Power | Expert Power: individuals is recognized as an expert based on special skills or knowledge. This allows this individual to yield power over others. Referent Power: means that an individual has influence over others because others identify with that individual who has desirable resources or personal traits (eg charisma) |
| Formal Power | - Legitimate Power: Power a person receives as result of her position in formal hierarchy of organization (promotion to line manager eg) - Reward Power: Individual has ability to achieve compliance of others by distributing and controlling rewards (eg financial incentives, free time, praise,…) - Coercive Power: Individual has ability to achieve compliance by being able to punish others. Dependent on fear of the negative result from failing to comply. - Informational Power (has been added later): ability to bring about change in an organization by the resource of information - Ecological Power (has been added later): control over physical environment, technology and organization of work |
| Changes to Power Holders | Types of Change: Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral and Neurochemical |
| Evaluation of Leader Power Approach | Strengths: + intuitively appealing approach as everyone experiences some sort of power at the workplace + can be seen from an attribute or relational point of view Weaknesses: - limited research interest (leader power has not been a major variable in leadership theories and research) - role of attributions of power (likely influenced by success) and thus unclear causality |
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