Chapter 12. Leadership Power and Influence.

1. Explain in detail Four Kinds of Influential Leadership. Explain in detail power and politics to help accomplish important organizational goals.
2. Explain in detail Transformational Leadership, Charismatic Leadership, Coalitional Leadership, and Machiavellian-Style Leadership.
3. Explain in detail Hard Power and Soft Power. Explain the difference between soft power and hard power and identify specific types of power in organizations.
4. Explain in detail Follower Responses to the Use of Power. Describe structural, human resource, political, and symbolic frames of reference and identify your dominant leadership frame.
5. Explain in detail Increasing Power Through Political Activity. Explain in detail Leader Frames of Reference, and Political Tactics for Asserting Leader Influence.
6. Explain in detail how to increase power through political activity and use the influence tactics of appealing to a higher vision, rational persuasion, friendliness, reciprocity, developing allies, and direct persuasion.
7. Assume you are on a search committee to replace the CEO of a large financial services firm that is recovering from problems related to the mortgage crisis. Which do you think would be most valuable for a new top leader trying to solve the problems within the organizationcharismatic, transformational, coalitional, or Machiavellian-style leadership? What about for a new top leader of a small private university? Discuss.
8. Lord Acton, a British historian of the late nineteenth century, said that "power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely," suggesting that a person's sense of morality lessens as his or her power increases. Do you agree? Considering this idea, is it ethical for leaders to try to increase their power? Discuss.