Roderick M Kramer & Margaret A. Neale 
Power and Influence in Organizations [PDF ebook] 

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.

Table of Content

Introduction – Roderick M Kramer and Margaret A Neale

Illusions of Influence – Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert B Cialdini

Simmelian Ties – David Krackhardt

Super Strong and Sticky

Sticky Ties and Bad Attitudes – Kathleen L Valley and Tracy A Thompson

Relational and Individual Bases of Resistance to Change in Organizational Structure

Political Alignments in Organizations – Samuel B Bacharach and Edward J Lawler

Contextualization, Mobilization and Coordination

The Power of Resistance – Blake E Ashforth and Fred A Mael

Sustaining Valued Identities

Losing Our Religion – Philip E Tetlock

On the Precariousness of Precise Normative Standards in Complex Accountability Systems

Under the Influence? Organizational Paranoia and the Misperception of Others′ Influence Behavior – Roderick M Kramer and Benjamin A Hanna

Some Ethical Aspects of the Social Psychology of Social Influence – David M Messick and Rafal K Ohme

Two Faces of the Powerless – Robert J Bies and Thomas M Tripp

Coping with Tyranny in Organizations

Personality Correlates of Structural Holes – Ronald S Burt

The Psychology of Authority Relations – Tom R Tyler

A Relational Perspective on Influence and Power in Groups

Uses and Misuses of Power in Task-Performing Teams – Ruth Wageman and Elizabeth A Mannix

To Be or Not To Be (Self-Promoting) – Laurie A Rudman

The Consequences of Counterstereotypical Impression Management

Women and Power – Joanne Martin and Debra Meyerson

Conformity, Resistance, and Disorganized Coaction

Championing Charged Issues – Susan J Ashford

The Case of Gender Equity within Organizations