Power and Politics Organization Theory

1. What are three significant points about power that you find interesting and relevant to leadership from the article by Pfeffer (1981)? 2. Explain the French and Raven's (1959) Bases of Social Power in your own words. What is another form of social power not mentioned in this article? Organizational Culture Theory 3. How does Edgar Schein (1993) define Organizational Culture? 4. What do Cook and Yanow (1993) mean by organizational learning? What is a learning organization? 5. According to Trice ande Beyer (1993), what does culture have to do with change in organizations? Reform Through Changes in Organizational Culture 6. Read the introduction to Chapter 8 in the Shafritz text (pages 415-423) and comment on changes through the 1980's and 1990's. 7. Choose from article 43 and 44, read and share three key concepts or ideas that you took away from your reading