Organizational Power Politics: Tactics in Organizational Leadership
- ISBN-10
- 0313379769
- ISBN-13
- 9780313379765
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 202
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO
- Author
- Gilbert W. Fairholm
Description
This updated edition of the award-winning volume is a contemporary guidebook for understanding and using personal power in organizational settings of all kinds. * Includes 22 demonstrations of effective power tactics for daily use at work, home, or in recreational situations * Offers 20 descriptive tables summarizing and clarifying survey results * Two diagrams display models of the power-use process, offering visual confirmation of the interrelationships of critical elements of power use * Provides a full bibliography for further study of the use of personal power in organizational settings * An extensive and helpful index offers access to all critical elements of power theory and practice allowing the reader easy reference
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Other editions
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- 2009-08-25
- 233 pages
- Ebook
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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- 1993-01-26
- 264 pages
- Paperback
- Praeger
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