COMMERCE 1BA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rationality, Organizational Identification, Assertiveness
10 Apr 2018
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The bases of individual power: power can be found in the position one occupies and the resources that one is able to command. Five bases of individual power: legitimate power understand what they"re about, reward power, coercive power, referent power, expert power. People obtain power in organizations by doing the right things and developing informal relationships with the right people. Some activities are righter than others for obtaining power. Cultivating relationships with the right people: developing informal relationships with the right people can be a useful means of acquiring power, the right people can include: Empowerment: putting power where it is needed: empowerment means giving people the authority, opportunity, and motivation to take initiative and solve organizational problems, empowerment = self-efficacy, job satisfaction, organization commitment, ocb, high performance. Influence tactics convert power into actual influence over others. Specific behaviours that people use to affect others and manage others" impressions of them:
