Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude is a case study that focuses on a mother-daughter duo, preparing to face a daunting mountain hike at the request of the mother’s manager. The hiking trip was meant to create stronger bonds between the staff while simultaneously encouraging them to get fit, the case study describes the Lena’s, the mother, fears, and anxieties regarding the trip. Intertwined in the case study, though, are examples of various organizational theories! Take French and Raven’s bases of power for example. French and Raven Bases of Power (1960) divides power into five different forms but was amended by Raven in 1965 to included informational power. All six of these divisions will be reviewed and applied to the featured case study, Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude. To begin, social influence will be discussed.
Social influence is defined as 'change in the belief, attitude, or behavior of a targeted person which results from the action of another person'. Social influence focuses on the power of influence and change, something that the main antagonist of the case study, Jack Welton, strives for. Welton wishes for his team of employees to become both …show more content…
Expert power involves the individual and unique knowledge of a worker regarding their organization. This expertise is needed by someone else, and they cannot obtain it themselves resulting in collaborations made between organizations. Informational power, the last amendment of the Bases of Power, involves persuasion through information.
Concertive power attempts to explain how power relationships can be transformed in an era of team-based and alternative forms of organization. There are three particularly important aspects of this theory that are important to grasp to understand the theory clearly and they are: control, identification, and discipline, but for abridged purposes we will be focusing on the control
Social influence is defined as 'change in the belief, attitude, or behavior of a targeted person which results from the action of another person'. Social influence focuses on the power of influence and change, something that the main antagonist of the case study, Jack Welton, strives for. Welton wishes for his team of employees to become both …show more content…
Expert power involves the individual and unique knowledge of a worker regarding their organization. This expertise is needed by someone else, and they cannot obtain it themselves resulting in collaborations made between organizations. Informational power, the last amendment of the Bases of Power, involves persuasion through information.
Concertive power attempts to explain how power relationships can be transformed in an era of team-based and alternative forms of organization. There are three particularly important aspects of this theory that are important to grasp to understand the theory clearly and they are: control, identification, and discipline, but for abridged purposes we will be focusing on the control