MHR 741 Lecture Notes - Peer Pressure
26 Jul 2013
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In hr, the exercise of power goes on daily; it is used through several organizational aspects: Recruitment and selection: affects people to a large extent. How/where you advertise job postings in your organization is a way to use power negatively. Rough cuts in screening is where a lot of power is held to make choices. Throughout the process, applicants can be discriminated against. Common grounds include: age, race, gender, color, personality type. Information: - data; - control over access to people. The idea of dependence: the more you are dependent on someone else, the more power they hold over you. Even if you have a high dependence on someone, they also have a slight counter dependence on you; this is a weak power. Power has many different layers to it. Another huge source of power is also personality. Everybody has an np (need for power) It reigns from very low to very high. Machiavellian score: also from low to high.
