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Leader Influence: A Research Review Of French & Raven’S (1959) Power Dynamics, Mary Kovach Jul 2020

Leader Influence: A Research Review Of French & Raven’S (1959) Power Dynamics, Mary Kovach

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

After reviewing nearly 70 years of research, this manuscript seeks to compile study results to better understand leader influence by employing French and Raven’s (1959) power dynamics. Divided into two categories (i.e. formal and informal), these five power dynamics include referent, expert, legitimate, coercive, and reward power. Each power dynamic is categorized accordingly and dissected between scholarly research and applicable workplace settings between supervisors (i.e. leaders) and employees. Behavioral outcomes from a subordinate standpoint are discussed, and this manuscript concludes that the power dynamic that characterizes different workplace relationships between supervisors and employees has significant effects on work productivity and …


2020 Ijbe Front Matter Apr 2020

2020 Ijbe Front Matter

International Journal for Business Education

  1. Editorial Board
  2. Letter from International President
  3. SIEC-ISBE International


International Business Education Using Global Virtual Teams: Relationship Between Cultural Intelligence, Global Knowledge, And Team Performance, Maria Randazzo-Davis, Christopher Nelson Apr 2020

International Business Education Using Global Virtual Teams: Relationship Between Cultural Intelligence, Global Knowledge, And Team Performance, Maria Randazzo-Davis, Christopher Nelson

International Journal for Business Education

Corporate employees must interact with people from different cultures in cross‐cultural environments. This study examined the extent that cultural intelligence and global knowledge predicted team performance for university students engaged in collaborative team projects resembling the global corporate work environment. The sample for this study was 2,012 students who participated in the X-Culture Global Virtual Team Project during the spring semester of 2015. Participants were members of 412 teams representing 40 countries and attending 95 universities. Study results indicated that global knowledge and cultural intelligence significantly relate to team performance. Cultural intelligence is a significant partial mediation between global knowledge …