Concept information
Preferred term
six bases of power
Definition
- Though there have been many formal definitions of leadership that did not include social influence and power, any discussion of leadership must inevitably deal with the means by which a leader gets the members of a group or organization to act and move in a particular direction. One of the most widely cited analyses of social power is that proposed by John R. P. French and Bertram H. Raven in 1959. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Power, Six Bases of]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/six_bases_of_power
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