Organizational Power Styles: Collective and Competitive Power under Varying Organizational Conditions
- 1 October 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
- Vol. 22 (4) , 443-458
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002188638602200407
Abstract
This article reports research on the extent to which managers exercise both competitive and collective power with bosses, peers, and subordinates and the extent to which this exercise is related to organizationalfactors such as resource availability, normative structures, and organizational form (Type A or Type Z). Based on data from a survey of 350 managers from three levels of management in two businesses and two universities, the author finds that managers exercise both collective and competitive power in these organizations, in all role relationships, and that the type of power exercised is associated with resource availability and organizationalform.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
- Sources of Conflict between Work and Family RolesAcademy of Management Review, 1985
- Group Process Under Conditions of Organizational DeclineThe Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1985
- Environmental Decline and Organizational Response.Academy of Management Proceedings, 1982
- Maintaining Organizational Effectiveness During Organizational RetrenchmentThe Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1982
- The Management of Hard Times: Budget Cutbacks in Public Sector OrganizationsOrganization Studies, 1982
- Organizational Decline and Cutback ManagementPublic Administration Review, 1978
- The Exercise of Upward Influence in OrganizationsAdministrative Science Quarterly, 1978
- The locus and basis of influence on organizational decisionsOrganizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1974
- The Resolution of ConflictAmerican Behavioral Scientist, 1973
- Power-Dependence RelationsAmerican Sociological Review, 1962