Power Dynamics in Organizations

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Case

Reference no. 9-420-P05

Portuguese language

Subject category: Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour

Authors: Linda A Hill (Harvard Business School)

Published by: Harvard Business Publishing

Originally published in: 1995

Version: 22 March 1995

Length: 15 pages

Data source: Published sources

Topics: Career planning; Management development; Managing conflicts; Organizational behavior; Power and influence

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Abstract

This is a Portuguese version. Designed to introduce the concepts of power and power dynamics to students in the MBA second-year elective course Power and Influence. Defines 'power' and 'influence,' and explores the role of power dynamics in managerial work and in the life of organizations. Combats popular notions that 'power is evil' and that 'power corrupts' by illustrating how power is necessary to bring about productive and creative resolutions to organizational conflict. Describes the positional and personal sources of individual power, and concludes with implications for assessing power dynamics in organizations as an important element of one's career management.