Discussion:
Resource: The Prime Minister's Powerful Better Half Mini Case
Review The Prime Minister's Powerful Better Half.
Response the questionsto better address the key elements for your paper.
Address the following:
Review the Leader Motives of Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience. How would you characterize Ho Ching's motives?
Review Highlight in Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience. What role, if any, do managerial differences based on gender play here?
Table 5-3 Organizational Sources of Power: Strategic Contingencies.
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Coping with uncertainty
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Power based on the ability to reduce uncertainty for others. This power can be achieved by obtaining information others need, making predictions and engaging in forecasting, or by preventing the effect of change on others. Others comply because the power holder helps them achieve their goals by reducing uncertainty.
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Centrality
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Power based on being central to how the organization achieves its mission and goals. Others comply because what the power holder provides is key to organizational activities.
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Dependency
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Power based on others depending on power holder to get their work done. Others comply because they cannot accomplish their goal without the power holder's help.
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Substitutability
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Power based on providing a unique and irreplaceable service or product to others. Others comply because they cannot find elsewhere what the power holder provides.
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Source: Based on Hickson et al., "A strategic contingencies theory of intra-organizational power," Administrative Science Quarterly 16 (1971): 216-229.
Note: Individuals, teams, or departments gain power based on their ability to address issues that are instrumental to reaching organizational goals.