COLLAB 2N03 Lecture 5: Stress & Power

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Collaborative
• Course: COLLAB 2N03
• Professor: Teal Mc Ateer

Document Summary

What is power: the capacity to influence others who are in a state of dependence, resource dependency suppliers and customers power relationship; need for customers to buy your product; suppliers can have power over you, meso (in this class): power between two people; or leader between leader and group of people, professor/ student or employer/employee, dependence on prof, prof can influence student because they are dependent on prof for a grade, power is social exchange (based on social exchange theory, part 1: according to exchange theory, resource dependency occurs when an individual needs something that another person has (we say the person with the need is dependent on the other, no power will occur is not true, part 2: power or influence occurs when the person with the need for the resource gets it, in exchange for change in thoughts &/or your behaviors.