Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax!pedersen%math.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU From: pedersen%math.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Leadership in Small Groups Message-ID: <5415@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: 25 Sep 88 19:21:08 GMT Sender: skyler@ecsvax.uncecs.edu Lines: 44 Approved: skyler@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu I received the following in the mail from premise!stein@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Rich Epstein): | Concerning leadership: | Some possibly useful exerpts (paraphrased) from "Communicating at Work" | by Ronald B. Adler (pgs. 211-213). | Although some groups have an official leader, the power in a group | can be based on a number of factors: | Legitimate Power - officially the boss | Coercive Power - power to punish ("If you don't follow at least some | of my suggestions, I'll refuse to cooperate.") | Reward Power - both official and social (goodwill, voluntary assistance) | Expert Power - groups recognition of expertise | Referent Power - power due to the way others feel about them (respect, | attraction, or liking) | Information Power - (_my favorite_ - different from expert power - more | general and obscure. Also involves grapevine info - "I just heard | there's plenty of money in the travel budget") | Connection Power - who you have influence with. | The book is pretty easy reading and have some good ideas. It was | used at a course at the Harvard Extension School two years ago. | So, pick a power, and see how it works. | -Richard W. Epstein, Robin Computing Inc, Arlington MA 02174 | -(guest at Premise) --Sharon Pedersen Math Dept., Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 pedersen@math.berkeley.edu, ucbvax!math!pedersen