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The Dark Side of Organizational Behavior
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The Dark Side of Organizational Behavior

by H. Cenk Sözen, H. Nejat Basım
July 2022
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
204 pages
7h 45m
English
Routledge
Content preview from The Dark Side of Organizational Behavior

7 Negative aspects of organizational power

Deniz Dirik

DOI: 10.4324/9781003292401-8

Introduction

Power is a central concept in social sciences (Russell, 1938). Research shows (Bruins, 1999: 13) that any social-psychological theory that overlooks the significance of power will at best be imperfect and “a concerted attack on the problem of power should produce a major advance in the field of social psychology”. As such, the concept of power has received extensive scholarly attention across various disciplines of social sciences (French and Raven, 1959; Raven, 1976, 1999, 2008). By a straightforward description, power is an agent’s potential to direct a target toward a desired course of action (Somech and Drach-Zahavy, 2002). Social ...

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