Power and Politics Flashcards
Main power categories
- Position power
- Personal power
Position power
- Legitimate power
- Reward Power
- Coercive power
Legitimate power
Formal legal authority that comes from a position
- Only relying on it won’t make you keep the power long
Zone of indifference
Legitimate power
Range the authoritative request with a subordinate is willing to respond without subjecting the directives to critical evaluation or judgement
Hierarchical thinking
- Occur when overuse of Legitimate power
- when hierarchical systems create environments of superiority amon managers and inferiority among employees
Reward power
- Control over resources
- Comes from the ability to give positive rewards and remove/decrease negative ones
Coercive Power
Using punishment when people don’t comply when others don’t comply with influence attempts
Expert power
- Part of personal power
- Comes from special skills and abilities that others need but do not possess themselves
- Relative not absolute
Referent power
- Ability to alter another’s behavior because of the individual’s desire to identify with the power source.
- identification -> source of referent power
Information power
- Possession of access to information that is valuable to others
- Can come from positional or personal
Connection power
Ability to call on connections outside and inside ORG
Association power
- From connection power
- Arises from influence from other person with a powerful person whom other depends
- Not what you know but who you know
Reciprocal Alliances
- From connection power
- Power arise from connections that others developed through reciprocity
Structural power
Power is opposite of dependence
Power is relative to relation we’re looking at
Countervailing power
If actors can coordinate their actions, they act more like one
