Self-Defeating Leader Behavior: Why Leaders Misuse Their Power And Influence
Few concepts in the social sciences are invoked with the same ease or employed so readily to explain so many social and institutional outcomes as power. The concept of power has been used to explain, for example, how organizational resources are allocated (Pfeffer, 1992), how decisions are made (N...
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| author | Kramer, Roderick M. |
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| description | Few concepts in the social sciences are invoked with the same ease or employed so readily to explain so
many social and institutional outcomes as power. The concept of power has been used to explain, for
example, how organizational resources are allocated (Pfeffer, 1992), how decisions are made (Neustadt,
1990), the control of attention (Fiske, 1993), behavioral disinhibition (Galinsky, Gruenfeld & Magee,
2003; Keltner, Gruenfeld & Anderson, 2003), and the resolution of conflict (Boulding, 1966, 1989), to
name just a few important processes and outcomes. The concept of power is routinely used, moreover,
not only to explain why such outcomes do happen, but also why they don’t. Russell’s (1938) observation
that power is a “fundamental concept” in the social sciences remains as true today as it was when he first
uttered it. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/559432019-04-12T23:53:38Z Self-Defeating Leader Behavior: Why Leaders Misuse Their Power And Influence Kramer, Roderick M. hks cpl kennedy school leadership misuse self-defeating Few concepts in the social sciences are invoked with the same ease or employed so readily to explain so many social and institutional outcomes as power. The concept of power has been used to explain, for example, how organizational resources are allocated (Pfeffer, 1992), how decisions are made (Neustadt, 1990), the control of attention (Fiske, 1993), behavioral disinhibition (Galinsky, Gruenfeld & Magee, 2003; Keltner, Gruenfeld & Anderson, 2003), and the resolution of conflict (Boulding, 1966, 1989), to name just a few important processes and outcomes. The concept of power is routinely used, moreover, not only to explain why such outcomes do happen, but also why they don’t. Russell’s (1938) observation that power is a “fundamental concept” in the social sciences remains as true today as it was when he first uttered it. 2010-06-17T19:36:05Z 2010-06-17T19:36:05Z 2005-01-12 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55943 en_US Center for Public Leadership Working Paper Series;05-12 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ application/pdf Center for Public Leadership |
| spellingShingle | hks cpl kennedy school leadership misuse self-defeating Kramer, Roderick M. Self-Defeating Leader Behavior: Why Leaders Misuse Their Power And Influence |
| title | Self-Defeating Leader Behavior: Why Leaders Misuse Their Power And Influence |
| title_full | Self-Defeating Leader Behavior: Why Leaders Misuse Their Power And Influence |
| title_fullStr | Self-Defeating Leader Behavior: Why Leaders Misuse Their Power And Influence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Self-Defeating Leader Behavior: Why Leaders Misuse Their Power And Influence |
| title_short | Self-Defeating Leader Behavior: Why Leaders Misuse Their Power And Influence |
| title_sort | self defeating leader behavior why leaders misuse their power and influence |
| topic | hks cpl kennedy school leadership misuse self-defeating |
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