Forms of Power Within Organizations
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1. What forms of power may be found in organizations? According to the resource-dependency model of subunit power, what are the most important bases of subunit power in an organization?
2.How is social influence different from power and from organizational politics? What are the tactics of influence used most frequently in organizations?
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The forms of power that may be found in organizations are formal power, informal power, connection power, coercive power, informational power, expert power, rewards power, and referent power. According to the resource dependency model of subunit power, the most important bases of subunit power in an organization are the ability of a given subunit to contribute the resources that are critical to organization's overall function, as well as skills and knowledge that are critical to an organization's operations as well. Subunits ...
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