Power and Influence in Organizations

Edited by:

Roderick M. Kramer - Stanford University, Center for the Study of Families and Youth, Stanford University, USA
Margaret A. Neale - Stanford University, Center for the Study of Families and Youth

August 1998 | 408 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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This volume is a readily accessible compilation of current, original research in the area of power and influence in organizations. Power and Influence in Organizations offers a rich exploration of emerging trends and new perspectives. Contributors include leading scholars in organizational behavior and theory and major contemporary intellectual pioneers in research on power and influence, including Samuel B. Bacharach, Robert Cialdini, Edward J. Lawler, and Jeffrey Pfeffer. Each contributor provides insight into his or her own research, an overview of general trends, and thoughts about the direction of future research. Topics examined include manipulation of employee perceptions and values; the links between power and accountability; sharing power; the effects of gender on power and influence; illusions of influence; and impression management. Advanced students and scholars in organizational behavior, social influence, power and politics, conflict management, and institutional politics will find Power and Influence in Organizations stimulating and a useful roadmap to present and future research.

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Roderick M Kramer and Margaret A Neale

Introduction

Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert B Cialdini

Illusions of Influence

David Krackhardt

Simmelian Ties

Super Strong and Sticky

Kathleen L Valley and Tracy A Thompson

Sticky Ties and Bad Attitudes

Relational and Individual Bases of Resistance to Change in Organizational Structure

Samuel B Bacharach and Edward J Lawler

Political Alignments in Organizations

Contextualization, Mobilization and Coordination

Blake E Ashforth and Fred A Mael

The Power of Resistance

Sustaining Valued Identities

Philip E Tetlock

Losing Our Religion

On the Precariousness of Precise Normative Standards in Complex Accountability Systems

Roderick M Kramer and Benjamin A Hanna

Under the Influence? Organizational Paranoia and the Misperception of Others' Influence Behavior

David M Messick and Rafal K Ohme

Some Ethical Aspects of the Social Psychology of Social Influence

Robert J Bies and Thomas M Tripp

Two Faces of the Powerless

Coping with Tyranny in Organizations

Ronald S Burt

Personality Correlates of Structural Holes

Tom R Tyler

The Psychology of Authority Relations

A Relational Perspective on Influence and Power in Groups

Ruth Wageman and Elizabeth A Mannix

Uses and Misuses of Power in Task-Performing Teams

Laurie A Rudman

To Be or Not To Be (Self-Promoting)

The Consequences of Counterstereotypical Impression Management

Joanne Martin and Debra Meyerson

Women and Power

Conformity, Resistance, and Disorganized Coaction

Susan J Ashford

Championing Charged Issues

The Case of Gender Equity within Organizations

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