HROB 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Centrality

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

Document Summary

Both a lack of power and the abuse of power are debilitaing and counterproducive. To stay on top of the power curve 2 speciic management skills are required: gaining power. 2 basic factors determine a person"s power in an organizaion: personal atributes and posiion characterisics: convering power into inluence without abusing it. Experise task-relevant knowledge or experience: reliable. Personal atracion desirable characterisics associated with friendship: dependable. Efort higher-than-expected commitment of ime: likable. Legiimacy behaviour consistent with key organizaional values: acceptance. Centrality access to informaion in a communicaion network. Flexibility amount of discreion vested into a posiion. Visibility degree to which task performance is seen aby inluenial people in the organizaion. Relevance alignment of assigned tasks and organizaional prioriies. Inluence strategies: 3 r"s: retribuion force others to do what you say, direct coercion b. Indirect -- inimidaion: reciprocity help others want to do what you say, direct bargaining b.