Behavior, 8e
Schermerhorn, Hunt, and
Osborn
Prepared by
Michael K. McCuddy
Valparaiso University
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Organizational Behavior:
Chapter 15
Power and Politics
Study questions.
What is power?
How do managers acquire the power needed
for leadership?
What is empowerment, and how can managers
empower others?
What are organizational politics?
Organizational Behavior:
Chapter 15
Power and Politics
Study questions.
How do organizational politics affect
Organizational Behavior:
What is power?
Power is the ability to
Get someone to do something you want done.
Make things happen in the way you want.
Influence is
What you have when you exercise power.
Expressed by others behavioral response to
What is power?
Position power.
Derives from organizational sources.
Types of position power.
Reward power.
Coercive power.
Legitimate power.
Process power.
Information power.
Representative power.
Organizational Behavior:
What is power?
Reward power.
The extent to which a manager can use
What is power?
Coercive power.
The extent to which a manager can deny
manager to another.
Organizational Behavior:
What is power?
Legitimate power.
Also known as formal hierarchical authority.
The extent to which a manager can use
What is power?
Process power.
The control over methods of production and
analysis.
Places an individual in the position of:
Influencing how inputs are transformed into
outputs.
Controlling the analytical process used to make
choices.
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What is power?
Information power.
The access to and/or control of information.
May complement legitimate hierarchical
power.
May be granted to specialists and managers in
the middle of the information system.
People may protect information in order to
increase their power.
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What is power?
Representative power.
The formal right conferred by the firm to
variety of constituencies.
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What is power?
Personal power.
Derives from individual sources.
Types of personal power.
Expert power.
Rational persuasion.
Referent power.
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What is power?
Expert power.
The ability to control another persons
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What is power?
Rational persuasion.
The ability to control another persons
rational persuasion.
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What is power?
Referent power.
The ability to control anothers behavior
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organization.
Increasing task relevance of own activities and
to evaluate.
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Enhancing likeability.
Pleasant personality characteristics, agreeable behavior
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recognition.
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relational influence.
Reason.
Friendliness.
Coalition.
Bargaining.
Assertiveness.
Higher authority.
Sanctions.
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governed.
Subordinates accept or follow a directive only
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cont.
the subordinate:
carrying it out.
Must believe that it is consistent with the
organizations purpose.
Must believe that it is consistent with his or her
personal interests.
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Empowerment view.
Emphasis is on the ability to make things happen.
Power is relational in terms of problems and
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obeying.
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politics.
nonsanctioned means.
Organizational politics is defined as the
management of influence to obtain ends not
sanctioned by the organization or to obtain
sanctioned ends through nonsanctioned
influence means.
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unit.
Forming and using coalitions.
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dependencies.
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industry protector.
Decide when and how to get involved in the public
policy process.
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affected parties.
The behavior must respect the rules of justice.
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