Power And Influence In The Workplace

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Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behaviour
Individual Behaviour
Perceiving Ourselves and Others in Organizations
Workplace Emotions
Foundations of Employee Motivation
Applied Performance Practices
Decision Making and Creativity
Team Dynamics
Communicating in Organizations
Power and Influence in the Workplace
Conflict and Negotiation in the Workplace
Leadership in Organizational Settings
Designing Organizational Structures
Organizational Culture
Organizational Change

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People might gain power by convincing others that they have something of value.

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Power does not exist until the power holder actually applies power to influence someone else.

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Power is defined as influence in motion.

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Countervailing power refers to the power that the dominant person in a relationship uses as a backup when the primary source of power fails to work as planned on the dependent person.

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You cannot have power over others unless others believe you have that capacity

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Legitimate power is created whenever the organization assigns a supervisor formal

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Legitimate power is an agreement between people that one person has the right to request specific behaviours from the other person.

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Employees with low power distance are more likely to comply with legitimate power

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Employees with a high power distance tend to have higher deference to authority.

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The norm of reciprocity creates a feeling of obligation to help someone who has helped you in the past.

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One potent form of legitimate power occurs where people withhold the right to control the information that others receive.

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The right to control information flow in the organization is a form of legitimate power.

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Subordinates have some reward power over their bosses through 360-degree feedback systems.

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Peer pressure typically represents a form of coercive power.

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Employees are losing their expert power as society moves from an industrial to a knowledge-based economy.

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Prevention, forecasting, and absorption are three contingencies of power in organizations.

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Some employees and departments gain power by forecasting uncertainties in the organization's environment.

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Three general strategies to help organizations cope with uncertainty are prevention, creation, and deception.

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The most powerful coping strategy to deal with uncertainty is prevention

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Referent power is mainly developed through a person's interpersonal skills.

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