Organizational Power and Empowerment
- Review the types of power and the strategies aimed at gaining power in the textbook. Explain how essential gaining political power is as a leader. Which strategy for gaining power are you most likely to employ? Which is least likely? Explain your answer.
- Based on the techniques in the Reading, give two examples of what you can do this week to develop your power in an ethical way.
- From the 7-1 Self-Assessment and the Discussion on empowering practices in the textbook, describe which leadership empowering practices you currently use at work (or would use), and which you want to use more often with your work colleagues.
400 words min. references and citations required. Course textbook:
Dubrin, A. J. (2015). Leadership: Research findings, practice and skills. (8th ed.). Boston:
Cengage Learning.
