Leaders’ Power and Downward Influence Tactics: The Impact of Power Congruence

Congruency has been a central concept in certain fields such as job design work values, organizational goal, and many others. There are a few factors that suggest that agreement between supervisors’ and subordinates’ are critical determinants of the liking and exchange processes. This research incor...

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Main Author: Lo, May Chiun
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Language:English
Published: Life Science Journal 2014
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description Congruency has been a central concept in certain fields such as job design work values, organizational goal, and many others. There are a few factors that suggest that agreement between supervisors’ and subordinates’ are critical determinants of the liking and exchange processes. This research incorporates a basic distinction between the agent and target. Three hundred and eighty-five pairs of Malaysian managers and executives voluntarily participated in this study. The findings suggested that when both supervisors and subordinates were perceived to have position power, the use of hard influence tactics was most apparent and vice versa. Implications of the findings, potential limitations of the study, and directions for future research were discussed further.
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spelling unimas-43672022-01-26T02:05:58Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/4367/ Leaders’ Power and Downward Influence Tactics: The Impact of Power Congruence Lo, May Chiun HB Economic Theory Congruency has been a central concept in certain fields such as job design work values, organizational goal, and many others. There are a few factors that suggest that agreement between supervisors’ and subordinates’ are critical determinants of the liking and exchange processes. This research incorporates a basic distinction between the agent and target. Three hundred and eighty-five pairs of Malaysian managers and executives voluntarily participated in this study. The findings suggested that when both supervisors and subordinates were perceived to have position power, the use of hard influence tactics was most apparent and vice versa. Implications of the findings, potential limitations of the study, and directions for future research were discussed further. Life Science Journal 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/4367/1/Leaders%E2%80%99%20Power.pdf Lo, May Chiun (2014) Leaders’ Power and Downward Influence Tactics: The Impact of Power Congruence. Life Science Journal, 11 (9). pp. 166-174. ISSN 1097-8135 http://www.lifesciencesite.com.
spellingShingle HB Economic Theory
Lo, May Chiun
Leaders’ Power and Downward Influence Tactics: The Impact of Power Congruence
title Leaders’ Power and Downward Influence Tactics: The Impact of Power Congruence
title_full Leaders’ Power and Downward Influence Tactics: The Impact of Power Congruence
title_fullStr Leaders’ Power and Downward Influence Tactics: The Impact of Power Congruence
title_full_unstemmed Leaders’ Power and Downward Influence Tactics: The Impact of Power Congruence
title_short Leaders’ Power and Downward Influence Tactics: The Impact of Power Congruence
title_sort leaders’ power and downward influence tactics: the impact of power congruence
topic HB Economic Theory
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/4367/1/Leaders%E2%80%99%20Power.pdf