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A Correlational Study of Political Styles and Power Bases in a Public Sector Organisation

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  • Surendra K. Sia
  • Gopa Bhardwaj

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This study is an attempt to find out the relationship between organisational political styles and power bases at different management levels. The four political styles advocated by Kakabadse — traditional, team coach, company baron and visionary — have been taken for this study. And the power bases measured are — reward, coercion, legitimate expert and referent. The sample size for the present study was 100, i.e., 50 at the lower managerial level and 50 at middle management level, within the age range of 35–45 years. It was observed that, except two situations, there is no significant difference between the two managerial levels on the political styles — power base relationship. The result showed that, significant positive correlation appeared between traditional style and coercion power base, team coach style and referent power base, team coach style and reward power base for both the managerial levels, whereas, a significant negative relationship between team coach style and coercion power at both the levels. Company barons were found to be having significant positive relation with legitimate power base at middle level and also satisfactory relation at the lower level. Visionary style was positively correlated with expert power.

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  • Surendra K. Sia & Gopa Bhardwaj, 2007. "A Correlational Study of Political Styles and Power Bases in a Public Sector Organisation," Management and Labour Studies, XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business Management & Human Resources, vol. 32(1), pages 112-122, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:manlab:v:32:y:2007:i:1:p:112-122
    DOI: 10.1177/0258042X0703200107
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