Referent Power

Leadership Varieties of individual power 1 Referent Power is a power that is gained by association. A person who has power by association is often referred to as an assistant or deputy.

Gossip - Workplace gossip 1 Referent: this power can either be reduced OR enhanced to a point. When people view gossiping as a petty activity done to waste time, a gossipers referent power can decrease along with their reputation. When a recipient is thought of as being invited into a social circle by being a recipient, the gossipers referent power can increase, but only to a high point where then the recipient begins to resent the gossiper (Kurland & Pelled).

Industrial and organizational psychology - Leader-focused approaches 1 There are six bases of power: coercive power, reward power, legitimate power, expert power, referent power, and informational power

Power (social and political) - Referent power 1 Referent power is unstable alone, and is not enough for a leader who wants longevity and respect

Political psychology - The influence of power in groups 1 Referent power results in greater popularity of a political group or leader than coercive power (Shaw and Condelli, 1986)

Index of psychology articles - R 1 Radical behaviorism - Radical Psychology Network - Radiophobia - Rage (emotion) - Random assignment - Rape trauma syndrome - Rapport - Rapport congruency - Rashomon effect - Rational-emotive therapy - Rational choice theory - Rational emotive therapy - Rationality - Rationalization (psychology) - Raynaud's disease - Re-evaluation Counseling - Reachback - Reactance (psychology) - Reaction formation - Reactive attachment disorder - Reactivity (psychology) - Reading (activity) - Relational aggression - Relational disorder - Reality distortion field - Reality principle - Reasoning - Reciprocal liking - Reciprocity (social psychology) - Recklessness (psychology) - Recluse - Recollection - Recovery International - Recurring dream - Referent power - Reframing - Regression - Regression analysis - Regulatory Focus Theory - Rehabilitation (neuropsychology) - Rehabilitation counseling - Reinforcement - Reinforcer - Rejection (emotion) - Relational frame theory - Relationship counseling - Relationships (Myers- Briggs) - Religious instinct - Reminiscence - Remorse - Renfield's syndrome - Repetition compulsion - Representations - Representativeness heuristic - Repression - Rescorla- Wagner model - Resentment - Residual schizophrenia - Resistance (psychology) - Respondent conditioning - Retroactive inhibition - Retroactive interference - Retrograde amnesia - Retrospective memory - Reuptake - Reverse learning - Reverse psychology - Rhetoric - Righteous indignation - Risky shift - Ritualization - Role-playing - Role reversal - Role theory - Rorschach inkblot test - Rosenthal effect - Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank - Rousseau Institute -

Participative decision-making - Democratic 1 The democratic leader delegates authority, encourages participation, and relies on personal power (expert and referent power) to manage subordinates.

Organizational psychology - Leader-focused approaches 1 There are six bases of power: French Raven's Five bases of Power|coercive power, reward power, legitimate power, expert power, referent power, and informational power

Power (sociology) - Referent power 1 Referent power is unstable alone, and is not enough for a leader who wants longevity and respect

Gossipping - Workplace gossip 1 * 'Referent:' this power can either be reduced OR enhanced to a point. When people view gossiping as a petty activity done to waste time, a gossipers referent power can decrease along with their reputation. When a recipient is thought of as being invited into a social circle by being a recipient, the gossipers referent power can increase, but only to a high point where then the recipient begins to resent the gossiper (Kurland Pelled).

Leadership versus management - Varieties of individual power 1 * 'Referent Power' is a power that is gained by association. A person who has power by association is often referred to as an assistant or deputy.

Self-help groups for mental health - Criticism 1 Since these groups are not specifically diagnosis- related, but rather for anyone seeking mental and emotional health, they may not provide the necessary sense of community to evoke feelings of oneness required for recovery in self-help groups. Referent power is only one factor contributing to group effectiveness. A study of Schizophrenics Anonymous found Power (sociology)#Five bases of power|expert power to be more influential in measurements of perceived group helpfulness.

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