Power and Politics of Business Organisation

Keow Ngang Tang ()
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Keow Ngang Tang: Khon Kaen University

Chapter 8 in Leadership and Change Management, 2019, pp 69-74 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter is mainly focusing on power as a board construct that includes two categories, namely personal and organizational categories of ensuring compliance. In addition, power can be classified as formal or informal; hence, five sources of power exist such as legitimate power, reward power, coercive power, expert power, and referent power. Personal category of expert power and referent power is more likely to promote commitment and compliance whereas organizational category of legitimate power, reward power, and coercive power produces conflict and alienation. Business leader needs to consider power as the capacity to influence unilaterally the attitudes and behavior of subordinates in the desired direction. Scope of authority is dependent on the influence needed to accomplish role requirements. The relationship between power and political process is focused and explored on how the distribution of power in business organization affects its adaptation to changing environment. Last but not least, the importance of social exchange theory and strategic contingencies theory in term of political power is discussed at the end of this chapter.

Keywords: Politic; Power; Sources of power; Social exchange theory; Strategic contingencies theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8902-3_8

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