Tjosvold Dean, Sun Haifa F, Wan Paulina
Department of Management, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, China.
J Soc Psychol. 2005 Dec;145(6):645-61. doi: 10.3200/SOCP.145.6.645-662.
Researchers have considered power as a largely corrupting force in organizations. In the present experiment, the authors used the theory of cooperation and competition to investigate the effects of social context on power use in a sample of Chinese participants. The present results support the reasoning that high power compared to low power provides the capacity to assist employees and that cooperative, but not competitive, goals facilitate the motivation of managers to use their power to support employees and to develop managerial conclusions that employees are capable and appreciative. These results suggest limitations to traditional organizational power theories that assume a competitive context between the powerful and those subject to power. Cooperative goals appear to be an important basis for developing the positive face of power in organizations in China and perhaps in other cultures as well.
研究人员认为权力在组织中很大程度上是一种腐败力量。在本实验中，作者运用合作与竞争理论，对一组中国参与者进行抽样，以研究社会环境对权力运用的影响。目前的结果支持了这样的推断：与低权力相比，高权力赋予了协助员工的能力，并且合作而非竞争的目标会促进管理者运用权力支持员工的积极性，以及得出员工有能力且心怀感激的管理结论。这些结果表明，传统组织权力理论存在局限性，这些理论假定权力者与受权力影响者之间存在竞争环境。合作目标似乎是在中国乃至其他文化背景下，塑造组织中权力正面形象的重要基础。
