MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Order Of Merit, Job Satisfaction, Machiavellianism
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Power, influence, & political behavior: relationships & differences. Power is de ned as the ability or potential of one party to change or control the behavior, attitudes, opinions, objectives, needs, or values of another party. In uence is the process of actually exercising this power by affecting the thoughts, behaviors, and feelings of others. Political behavior is in uence attempts that are for personal gain and are not of cially sanctioned by an organization. The organizational power conversion gird (opcg): an organizing framework. Power can lead to both sanctioned a n d n o n - s a n c t i o n e d ( p o l i t i c a l. Although access to power does not mean a person is in uential. This is mainly due to the fact that most do not know their source of power or not know what in uence tactic to use.
