The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between position-related sources of power and person-related sources of power in organizations. The subject is the power of an organizational sub-unit compared to other units. Theory on the structural sources of power is well established in the literature. The question in this study is whether the individual manager, the person, is another major source of power for the organizational unit. A major objective of the study is to fill this gap in the literature on power in organizations. A secondary objective of this study is to see if one can rank the individual position-related sources of power and person-related sources of power, identified through a literature review, within each group in terms of their relative importance. The type of this study is exploratory. It is a descriptive study explaining the "what is" about the relationship between position and person sources of power in a manufacturing company. Results indicate that there is a two-way relationship between manager power and department power, and that one can rank order the sources of power in terms of their contribution to a department's or manager's power. Power is defined in this study as the ability to get things done.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc332300 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Nasif, Ercan G. (Ercan Gultekin) |
| Contributors | Thibodeaux, Mary Shepherd, Ebrahimi, Bahman, Lesika, Raymond Vincent, Bezdek, Jim J., Spalding, John Barney |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | vi, 122 leaves : ill., Text |
| Coverage | United States - Texas |
| Rights | Public, Nasif, Ercan G. (Ercan Gultekin), Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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