MHR 405 Chapter 9: Chapter 9

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Specialize in industrial, commercial, and infrastructure construction projects. (ago) 50 best employers to work for in canada winner. 93% of employees would recommend fi rm to friends. 1996, almost bankrupt (but changed its leadership style) giving responsibilities to employees and supporting when fail. ceo geoff smith seeing happy people first day on job, and not screw that up for them help others become a leader . Power, influence, and political behaviour: relationship and differences: power: ability/ potential of one party to change or control the behaviour, attitudes, opinion, objectives, needs, or values of another party. In fluence: process of actually exercising this power by affecting the thoughts, behaviour and feelings of others: political behaviour: is defined as influence attempts that are for personal gain and are not officially sanctioned by an org. Increasing uncertainly and change in both internal and external environments of org. French and raven"s 5 earliest classifications of social power: legitimate power.

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Chapter 5 Discussion

Most of you will agree that power and politics are alive and well in most organizations. Now the question is how do you as leaders use power to accomplish the missionâs goals? One of your objectives in this class is to sharpen your influencing people skills by studying different leadership methods. In this module, you will do exactly that by gaining a better understanding of how leaders use legitimate, reward, expert, referent, and coercive power to influence others.

As your text indicates, the three distinct outcomes that may result from the use of power to influence others: compliance, resistance, and commitment. The effective use of position power generally leads to employee compliance, whereas the excessive use of position power and particularly coercive power may result in resistance. The follower response most often generated by personal power is commitment to the organization's goals and objectives and that is what you, as leaders should be striving for in terms of the organizationâs mission.

Post your responses on the Discussion Board. They should be a minimum of 300 words, grammatically sound, and free from spelling errors. Be sure to comment or respond to at least two of you classmates' postings.

Discussion Questions: Select a present or past manager who has or had coercive power.

Give a specific example of how he or she uses or used reward and punishment to achieve an objective.

Overall, how effective is (or was) this manager at using rewards and punishment?

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