Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter : Power Politics and Ethics

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Tony Francolini

Document Summary

Power: define: power is the capacity to influence others who are dependent, bases of power and power moves contribute to power, moderators interfere and eventually lead to the outcome. Employee responses to bases of power: by developing informal relationships with the right people. How do people obtain power: by doing certain activities. In control of association (linkage: supervisors, outsiders, subordinates. Associated with (node: by controlling strategic contingencies: information & resources. Strategic contingencies are critical factors affecting organizational effectiveness that are controlled by a key subunit. Empowerment: giving people the authority, opportunity, and motivation to take initiative and solve organizational problems, puts power where it is needed to make the organization effective, power sharing not abdication. Influencing tactics: methods of delivering influence, position, personal, rewards / coercion, instruction, indoctrination, info dissemination / info distortion, coalition, attraction, persuasion / appeal / rationality, ingratiation, power sharing, bargaining. Power moderators: size, familiarity, cohesiveness, power structure, decision process, task characteristic, complexity, deadline, sponsorship, interdependence, organizational.