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03 Leader Power
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- 1Personal PowerExpert Power: individuals is recognized as an expert based on special skills or knowledge. This allows this individual to yield power over others.
Referent Power: means that an individual has influence over others because others identify with that individual who has desirable resources or personal traits (eg charisma) - 2Formal Power- Legitimate Power: Power a person receives as result of her position in formal hierarchy of organization (promotion to line manager eg)
- Reward Power: Individual has ability to achieve compliance of others by distributing and controlling rewards (eg financial incentives, free time, praise,…)
- Coercive Power: Individual has ability to achieve compliance by being able to punish others. Dependent on fear of the negative result from failing to comply.
- Informational Power (has been added later): ability to bring about change in an organization by the resource of information
- Ecological Power (has been added later): control over physical environment, technology and organization of work - 3Changes to Power HoldersTypes of Change: Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral and Neurochemical
- 4Evaluation of Leader Power ApproachStrengths:
+ intuitively appealing approach as everyone experiences some sort of power at the workplace
+ can be seen from an attribute or relational point of view
Weaknesses:
- limited research interest (leader power has not been a major variable in leadership theories and research)
- role of attributions of power (likely influenced by success) and thus unclear causality
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- Created by Josefine Marie · Oct 15, 2020
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