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Invitation to PDW: Navigating Social Hierarchies in Organizations Through Power Currency Attainment (Saturday, August 11, 10:15AM - 12:15PM)

  • 1.  Invitation to PDW: Navigating Social Hierarchies in Organizations Through Power Currency Attainment (Saturday, August 11, 10:15AM - 12:15PM)

    Posted 08-08-2018 07:54

    Colleagues:

    Please join us for our PDW, "Navigating Social Hierarchies in Organizations Through Power Currency Attainment," sponsored by the GDO Division, on Saturday, August 11, 10:15AM - 12:15PM at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, Soldiers Field.  Information about our PDW can be found below and in the online program found at this link https://my.aom.org/program2018/.

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    Navigating Social Hierarchies in Organizations Through Power Currency Attainment

    Revisiting the concepts of power and status in organizations has both research and practical relevance.  Power and status represent fundamental dimensions of social hierarchy (Magee & Galinsky, 2008; Fiske, 2010; Gruenfled & Tiedens, 2010). While some traditional analyses of power take into account its relational nature within and among groups/teams, little attention has been given to the ways in which perceptions of power and social status affect and contribute to emergent social hierarchies within organizations and teams. 

    We propose that investigating power currency, which privileges the relational nature of power, provides an alternate vantage for examining power and status in organizations, particularly for scholars and practitioners interested in developing intersectional perspectives on social hierarchies in organizations. Exploring four proposed bases of power currency, i.e. resource control, relationship management, communication, and expertise (Hocker & Wilmot, 2011), we will utilize a problematization (Alvesson and Sandburg, 2011) protocol to generate research questions that more clearly address challenges of marginalized individuals in organizations. We will also discuss the work of organizational scholars (such as Roberts & Creary, 2013; Fletcher, Holvino & Debebe, 2012; Bilimoria & Stewart, 2009; Scully & Blake-Beard, 2006) who demonstrate intersectional problematizing in their research, and provide examples of how to research the impact of multiple identity factors on organizational experiences.
      Both researchers and practitioners are encouraged to attend.

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    Organizers:
    Estelle Archibold, Case Western Reserve University

    O. Dorian Boncoeur, University of Texas, Dallas



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    Estelle Archibold
    Beachwood OH
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