An experimental examination of social contexts and the use of power in a Chinese sample.

From: The Journal of Social Psychology | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: Tjosvold, Dean; Sun, Haifa F.; Wan, Paulina | Copyright information

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 s...

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