Exploratory Study of Machiavellianism and Bases of Social Power in Bankers

2005 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Baker Corzine ◽  
George C. Hozier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Coercive Power ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Power Bases ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Social Power Bases

This study focused on relationships between Machiavellianism in subordinates and perceived social power bases of supervisors in a sample of 168 bank officers in the western United States. Regression analyses showed no significant relationships between subordinates' Machiavellianism scores and four supervisory power bases subscales. The association between scores on Machiavellianism and coercive power reached p < .06.

Supervisees' Perceptions of Supervisors' Social Power in Speech-Language Pathology

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 90-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry T. Wagner ◽  
Carla W. Hess
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Power Bases ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Supervisory Relationships ◽  
Legitimate Power ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Supervisory Process ◽  
Social Power Bases ◽  
Pathology Education

Most speech-language pathologists function as supervisees and supervisors at various points in their careers (Anderson, 1988). This study investigates supervisees' perceptions of their current and ideal supervisors' social power during the clinical supervisory process in speech-language pathology education. Perceived social power was measured by two modified versions (Wagner, 1994) of the Rahim Leader Power Inventory (Rahim, 1988). This inventory measures the five French and Raven (1959) social power bases: expert, reward, referent, legitimate, and coercive. Graduate supervisees completed one version of the inventory by rating their current supervisor and a second version of the inventory indicating their ideal supervisor. Results revealed significant differences among supervisees' perceptions of current versus ideal supervisors relative to expert, reward, referent, and legitimate power. Overall, these results have implications for supervisors in speech-language pathology who may wish to modify their perceived social power in order to enhance supervisory relationships.

Geography and State Power

Paper Trails ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 16-35
Author(s):  
Cameron Blevins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
State Power ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Coercive Power ◽  
The Us ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Settler Colonization ◽  
The 19Th Century

Chapter 1 situates the US Post within the larger landscape of the 19th-century American state. Analyzing the geography of the US Post challenges traditional assumptions about how states are organized and the ways in which they exercise power. First, rather than functioning as a centralized bureaucracy, the US Post operated through the agency model: a decentralized organization in which small tasks are delegated to a scattered workforce of part-time local agents. Second, rather than exercising coercive power, the US Post operated through structural power, or the ability to shape the conditions under which people make decisions. Rather than weaknesses, these features were key to how the US Post was able to rapidly expand over recently conquered territory and, in doing so, tie together the machinery of governance and settler colonization in the western United States.

An Experimental Analysis of a Salesman's Expert and Referent Bases of Social Power in the Buyer-Seller Dyad

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Busch ◽  
David T. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Analysis ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Power Bases ◽  
Referent Power ◽  
Social Power Bases

A salesman's expert and referent social power bases are analyzed experimentally to assess their impact on the customer's trust in the salesman, attitude, and behavioral intentions. Findings indicate that expertise is generally more effective than referent power in producing the desired customer changes.

The Sales Manager's Bases of Social Power and Influence upon the Sales Force

1980 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Busch
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Sales Force ◽  
Sales Manager ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Role Clarity ◽  
Power Bases ◽  
Propensity To Leave ◽  
Satisfaction With Supervision ◽  
Social Power Bases ◽  
Power And Influence

The relationships between the sales manager's social power bases and the salesperson's satisfaction with supervision, role clarity, and propensity to leave the organization are empirically analyzed. In addition, the influence of the salesperson's sex, age, and time on the job upon the sales manager-salesperson power relationship is explored.

Social Power Bases: A Meta-Anaiytic Examination of Interrelationships and Outcomes1

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (14) ◽  
pp. 1150-1169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Phillips Carson ◽  
Kerry D. Carson ◽  
C. William Roe
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Power Bases ◽  
Social Power Bases

Relationships between Bases of Power and Work Reactions: The Mediational Role of Procedural Justice

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin W. Mossholder ◽  
Nathan Bennett ◽  
Edward R. Kemery ◽  
Mark A. Wesolowski
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Power Bases ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Bases Of Power ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Mediational Role ◽  
Social Power Bases

Though research has addressed relationships between social power bases and several work-related variables, processes that may underlie such relationships have generally not been examined. The present study considered relationships between bases of social power and subordinates’ affective work reactions, hypothesizing that procedural justice would mediate such relationships. Two samples, one drawn from two service-oriented companies and one collected from a hospital, were used to test a mediational model reflecting this hypothesis. Using theoretically grounded measures of social power and procedural justice, support was found for full mediation effects in connection with subordinates’ affective work reactions. Implications regarding the development of social power bases are discussed.

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