HROB 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Empowered, Work Unit

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18 May 2016

School

University of Guelph

Department

Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour

Course

HROB 2100

Professor

Rhonda Gordon

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A capacity that a has to influence the behaviour of b, so that b acts in accordance with. B"s relationship to a when a possesses something that b needs. Power based on the ability to provide benefits or rewards to people. Power based on relative position in the organizational hierarchy. Power based on a person"s experience and knowledge. You like the person and enjoy doing things for him or her. The least effective power bases are the ones most likely to be used by managers. Deadline pressures increase group member reliance on individuals with expert power. Importance: the things you control must be important. Scarcity: a resource must be perceived as scarce. Non-substitutability: the resource cannot be substituted with something else. How to increase the dependency of others on you: control things viewed as important, the resources must be viewed as scarce, the resource must have few or no substitutes (non-substitutability)

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Chapter 5 Discussion

Most of you will agree that power and politics are alive and well in most organizations. Now the question is how do you as leaders use power to accomplish the missionâs goals? One of your objectives in this class is to sharpen your influencing people skills by studying different leadership methods. In this module, you will do exactly that by gaining a better understanding of how leaders use legitimate, reward, expert, referent, and coercive power to influence others.

As your text indicates, the three distinct outcomes that may result from the use of power to influence others: compliance, resistance, and commitment. The effective use of position power generally leads to employee compliance, whereas the excessive use of position power and particularly coercive power may result in resistance. The follower response most often generated by personal power is commitment to the organization's goals and objectives and that is what you, as leaders should be striving for in terms of the organizationâs mission.

Post your responses on the Discussion Board. They should be a minimum of 300 words, grammatically sound, and free from spelling errors. Be sure to comment or respond to at least two of you classmates' postings.

Discussion Questions: Select a present or past manager who has or had coercive power.

Give a specific example of how he or she uses or used reward and punishment to achieve an objective.

Overall, how effective is (or was) this manager at using rewards and punishment?

HROB 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Empowered, Work Unit

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