Expert Power

Leadership Varieties of individual power 1 Expert Power is attained by the manager due to his or her own talents such as skills, knowledge, abilities, or previous experience. A manager who has this power within the organization may be a very valuable and important manager in the company.

Gossip - Workplace gossip 1 Expert: when a gossiper seems to have very detailed knowledge of either the organization's values or about others in the work environment, their expert power becomes enhanced.

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) - Expert power 1 Expert power is an individual's power deriving from the skills or expertise of the person and the organization's needs for those skills and expertise

Political psychology - The influence of power in groups 1 The "critical bases of power" developed by French and Raven (1959) allocates the following types of power as the most successful; reward power, coercive power, legitimate power, referent power and expert power

Organizational culture - Charles Handy 1 These organizations form hierarchical bureaucracies, where power derives from the personal position and rarely from an expert power

Consumer neuroscience - Advertising and Emotion 1 Brain mechanisms of persuasion: how expert power modulates memory and attitudes

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

Gossipping - Workplace gossip 1 * 'Expert:' when a gossiper seems to have very detailed knowledge of either the organization's values or about others in the work environment, their expert power becomes enhanced.

Leadership versus management - Varieties of individual power 1 * 'Expert Power' is attained by the manager due to his or her own talents such as skills, knowledge, abilities, or previous experience. A manager who has this power within the organization may be a very valuable and important manager in the company.

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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