...Zhigang Song; Qinxuan Gu Purpose Drawing on power approach-inhibition theory, this study aims to theorize a cross-level model to examine how team member personal power (i.e. expert power and referent power) impacts shared leadership through activating their taking charge behaviors in R&D teams...

...Neringa Kalpokas; Ivana Radivojevic Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand understanding of how leaders can use their power to reshape macro-level structures to foster individuals' freedoms and build more democratic workplaces. The importance of freedom in work and life can hardly...

... Power Leadership has been at the centre of interest in many fields where work is organized in teams. A vast amount of literature exists describing the differences and similarities in leadership in different settings and from various perspectives. Although there is no consensus about...

...Lucinda L. Parmer; John E. Dillard Jr Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the perceptions employees have regarding how they are treated in the workplace environment by their current or most recent supervisor, and how this predicted their feelings of power...

...Roni Laslo Roth; Joseph Schwarzwald Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine Koslowsky and Schwarzwald’s (2009) recent conceptualization of the interpersonal power interaction model which assumed that the choice of power tactics in conflict situations is a sequential process including...

...Gareth Edwards; Doris Schedlitzki; Sharon Turnbull; Roger Gill Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to take a fresh look at the leadership and management debate through exploring underlying power assumptions in the literature. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a conceptual...

... Limited 2014 --> Change agent Organization development Organization development practitioner Leadership Adaptive leadership Resistance to change Communication Power Learning Trust Customer The timely release of Dempsey’s (2014) work, No Fear: Tales...

...Benjamin G. Voyer; Bryan McIntosh Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore theoretical connections between the cognitive consequences of power on self-perception and the behaviours of leaders. Design/methodology/approach – A systematic literature review was carried out...

...Anne Murphy Keith   Grint . Leadership: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford : Oxford University Press   2010 . 142 pages Paperback , ISBN: ISBN 978‐0‐19‐956991‐5   £7.99 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Leadership Power Problems Structures...

...Kari Kerttula; Tuomo Takala Purpose The aim of the study was to analyze the use of power in a strategic change process within a large forest industry company. The organization in question had a total of 7,700 employees, 6‐8 organizational levels, over 30 production units and a widespread...

... Constructionist Power Ethics Followers This is a scholarly work about the discussions and more notably, the disagreements of a group of distinguished academics including J. Thomas Wren of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James MacGregor Burns...

... Politics Power Influence Personality Behaviour Leadership The disciplines of management science and organisational behaviour converge in the exploration of a dynamic force that shapes organisations through power, influence, and change, propelling them to action in the competitive landscape across...

... and public duties; cleverness, innocence, and virtue; genius, heresy, and madness; diversity and unity; ambiguity and coherence; power, domination, and subordination; gender and sexuality; great actions, great visions, and great expectations; and pleasures of the process. Each of these issues is examined...

...Peter Miller Art   Kleiner . Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege and Success . London : Nicholas Brealey Publishing   2003 . 277 pp. , ISBN: 1‐85788‐335‐7 £19.99 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Leadership Power Politics...

...Keith Mattacks Roger   Cartwright . Mastering Team Leadership . Palgrave , 2002 . 224 pp. , ISBN: 0333992989   £14.99 (paperback) Team work Team roles High performance teams Power It has perhaps become a cliché to say that team working is vital...

...David Coghlan Organizational theory Stories Power David   Knights and Hugh   Wilmott . Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organizations . London : Sage   1999 . 192 pp , ISBN: ISBN 0 8039 8334 4   £15.99 (paperback) Over the last few weeks...

...Raanan Lipshitz; Micha Popper The history of a management development programme in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) is presented. The programme was developed in response to two problems which handicapped internal consultants in the IDF, their low power position and the inappropriateness...

...Peter J. Frost; Carolyn P. Egri Having a good idea, product or system is often not enough to ensure the adoption and diffusion of an innovation. Using an organisational power and politics perspective, several published accounts of product and administrative innovation are analysed. The interplay...

...Peter J. Frost; Carolyn P. Egri Having a good idea, product or system is often not enough to ensure the adoption and diffusion of an innovation. Using an organisational power and politics perspective, several published accounts of product and administrative innovation are analysed. The interplay...

... Leadership Organisations Power META LEADERSHIP IN ORGANISATIONS: APPLYING BURNS' POLITICAL CONCEPT IN TRANSFORMING LEADERSHIP by John Nicholls Management Consultant Introduction In his seminal book Leadership[1], the political scientist James MacGregor Burns drew a distinction between transforming...