HROB 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Advantageous, Siege Mentality, Centrality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 3100
• Professor: Jamie Gruman

Document Summary

Indicators of a manager"s upward and outward power. Acquire early information about decisions and policy shifts. Characteristics that derail managers" careers: insensitive to others; abrasive and intimidating, cold, aloof, and arrogant, betraying others" trust, overly ambitious; playing politics and always trying to move up, unable to delegate to others or to build a team overdependent on others (e. g. , a mentor) Managers with institutional power orientation use their power to advance the goals of the organization personal power view of power tend to use their power for personal gain. Both a lack of power and the abuse of power are equally debilitating and counterproductive. In contrast, empowerment uses sufficient amounts of personal power to achieve high levels of effectiveness. They are obliged to be sensitive to their environment. Human capital refers to an individual"s abilities and competencies social capital refers to a person"s social connections within and outside an organization.