Several recent studies have found that managers engage in redundant communication; that is, they send the same message to the same recipient sequentially through two or more unique media. Given how busy most managers are, and how much information their subordinates receive on a daily basis, this practice seems, initially, quite puzzling. We conducted an ethnographic investigation to examine the...

Power and social influence are integral aspects of relationships between individuals, social groups, and nations and are major topics in the fields of philosophy and social science. In the last 30 years, there has been growing interest in applying interpersonal influence theory to organizational settings, specifically on the power relationships between managers, subordinates, and peers (Higgins...

We show that the tenure lengths for managers of sport teams follow a power law distribution with an exponent between 2 and 3. We develop a simple theoretical model which replicates this result. The model demonstrates that the empirical phenomenon can be understood as the macroscopic outcome of pairwise interactions among managers in a league, threshold effects in managerial performance evaluati...

the moral behaviors and their relations to methods rules, procedures, and systems of values in their routine and traditional form is tackled. the miss-uses of power in the organizations which is very beneficial to managers have been mentioned.

This is a chapter about power in groups and organizations. In the following pages, we suggest that the analysis and exploration of the complexities of organizational power by managers and workers is both necessary and useful. We begin by discussing three of the prominent theoretical perspectives on power from the literatures of social and organizational psychology and critical management studie...

Power and social influence are integral aspects of relationships between individuals, social groups, and nations and are major topics in the fields of philosophy and social science. In the last 30 years, there has been growing interest in applying interpersonal influence theory to organizational settings, specifically on the power relationships between managers, subordinates, and peers (Higgins...

behaviors of nurse managers that staff nurses identify as supportive? If nurse managers are to be optimally effective, they must know and enact the behaviors that convey support to staff. Only staff nurses can identify these supportive behaviors and, through valid measurement, provide the necessary feedback to nurse managers, who in turn have the power to change and alter that aspect of the wor...

behaviors of nurse managers that staff nurses identify as supportive? If nurse managers are to be optimally effective, they must know and enact the behaviors that convey support to staff. Only staff nurses can identify these supportive behaviors and, through valid measurement, provide the necessary feedback to nurse managers, who in turn have the power to change and alter that aspect of the wor...

This article addresses issues for child protection managers, such as hiring, program design, service evaluation, and policy development. It presents three frameworks for levels of organizational change: cultural sensitivity, which modifies existing services to better meet the needs of target populations; self-reflective cultural sensitivity, which calls for managers to be aware of personal and ...