MGHB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Organizational Identification, Organizational Commitment, Enes Kanter
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Organizational behaviour chapter 12 power, politics, and ethics. Military many level of commands, uniforms, and rituals. The academic hierarchy of universities tends to downplay differences in the legitimate power of lecturers and deans: when legitimate power works, it often does so because people have been socialized to accept its influence eg. Parents, teachers, law enforcement: reward power power derived from the ability to provide positive outcomes and prevent negative outcomes, reward power often backs up legitimate power eg. Managers can recommend raises, assign preferred tasks to employees. Employees can give compliments and praise: coercive power power derived from the use of punishment and threat, this also supports legitimate power, managers can dock pay, assign unfavourable tasks, or block promotions. How do people obtain power: rosabeth kanter said that people get power through doing the right things and cultivating the right people, doing the right things: some activities are righter than others for obtaining power.
