Managing power and people [electronic resource] / George J. Seperich and Russell W. McCalley.
By: Seperich, George J.
Contributor(s): McCalley, Russell W | ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., c2006Description: x, 265 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Personnel management | Organizational behavior | Power (Social sciences) | Organizational effectivenessGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 658.3 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-256) and index.
Managing power -- Introduction -- Fear -- Sources of organizational power -- Overview of the power sources -- The power structure of an organization -- The power of group membership -- Usurping and assuming power -- Power and authority -- Entitled power -- Authority of resource providers: introduction -- Who are the resource providers? -- The authority of service providers -- Managing people -- Introduction to the concept of focus management -- Focus management -- The five steps of focus management -- Managing entitled power with focus skills -- The power of persuasion -- The resource of leadership in managing people -- The management action process -- Managership -- Strategy, management and power -- Managing with combined power and focus -- The power management process.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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