MGT 500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Ingratiation, Impression Management, Theories Of Political Behavior

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 500
• Professor: Ronda Smith

Document Summary

A differentiating factor between power and leadership is goal compatibility. Something that differentiates power from leadership is the lack of goal compatibility between leaders and followers. Research on power is likely to provide information on the most effective tactics for gaining compliance of employees. One tool to assess the exchange of resources and dependencies within an organization is social network analysis. For a power situation to exist, one person or group needs to have control over resources the other person or group values. If you want a college degree and have to pass a certain course to get it, and your current instructor is the only faculty member in the college who teaches the course, she has power over you. Limited resources are one of the major reasons for the development of organizational politics. Interviewers are rarely able to detect when an individual is engaging in impression management.