Power and Interdependence in Organizations

Name: Power and Interdependence in Organizations
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ISBN: 9780521703284

ISBN-10: 052170328X

ISBN-13: 9780521703284

Edition: 2009

Authors: Dean Tjosvold, Barbara van Knippenberg, Barbara Wisse

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Power is an inescapable feature of human existence. It plays a role in all social contexts and is particularly important in the functioning of organizations and work groups. Organizational researchers have certainly recognised the importance of power but have traditionally focused on its negative aspects. Yet power can also have very positive effects. Power and Interdependence in Organizations capitalizes on significant developments in social science over the past twenty years to show how managers and employees can manage power in order to make it a constructive force in organizations. Written by a team of international academics, the book explores both the positive and negative aspects of…

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Barbara Wisse is Associate Professor of Organizational Psychology at VU University Amsterdam.



List of figures


List of tables


List of contributors


Foreword


Introduction



Relationships to Manage the Faces of Power



Understanding power in organizations




How can power be tamed?




Power and self-construal: how the self affects power processes




The conceptualization of power and the nature of interdependency: the role of legitimacy and culture




Power in cooperation and competition: understanding the positive and negative faces of power




Participative Leadership: Leading with Others



Growing powerful using cherry picking strategies: coworker networks as cherry trees




Acting fairly to be the boss: procedural justice as a tool to affirm power relationships with subordinates




A tale of two theories: implicit theories of power and power-sharing in organizations




Exchange Dynamics and Outcomes



Power and social exchange




The power process and emotion




Gender inequalities in power in organizations




Power to Influence



Power and the interpersonal influence of leaders




Bases of leader power and effectiveness




Power tactics preference in organizations: individual and situational factors




Influence triggers and compliance: a discussion of the affects of power, motivation, resistance and antecedents




Leadership and conflict: using power to manage conflict in groups for better rather than worse




Organizational change




Leading with Values



Servant-leadership, key to follower well-being




Ethical leadership: the socially responsible use of power




The tao of value leadership and the power of interdependence



Index