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Power dynamics, leadership and ingratiation: a study on Indian public sector

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  • Biswajeet Pattanayak
  • Phalgu Niranjana
  • Somdatta Ganguly

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The objectives were to find out the effect of age of organisation and level/hierarchical positions of employees on ingratiation and the differential perception of employees with regard to bases of power, leadership styles and ingratiation, to make a network analysis of these three variables and explain their inter-relationships. It was 2 (age of organisation) x2 (level of employees) factorial design with 400 samples from old and new public sector organisations. Three standardised questionnaires were used. Findings revealed that inter-group difference exist with regard to all three variables. Executives of new public sector use more reward and expert power and authoritarian, task-oriented styles of leadership, whereas in old public sector they use more referent power and nurturant, bureaucratic styles of leadership. Executives of old public sectors indulge in more ingratiatory behaviour comparative to supervisors. An integrated analysis shows that leadership is a power function and contributes to influence strategies of ingratiation.

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  • Biswajeet Pattanayak & Phalgu Niranjana & Somdatta Ganguly, 2005. "Power dynamics, leadership and ingratiation: a study on Indian public sector," International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(1), pages 57-68.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijhrdm:v:5:y:2005:i:1:p:57-68
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