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A Battered Women’s Movement Perspective of Coercive Control : Gretchen Arnold, Violence Against Women 2009, 15: 1432-1443.

Questions that apply to article:

1. What is coercive control?
2. Why should we frame domestic violence as coercive control?
3. How can battered women’s movement activists use the insights from Stark’s book to enhance support services and work on legal reforms?

Power and Advantage in Organizations : Kieron Walsh, Bob Hinings, Royston Greenwood and Stewart Ranson, Organization Studies 1981, 2: 131-152.

Questions that apply to article:

1. What types of situations occur in which conflict and the exercise of power may arise?
2. Explain how actions of others can be “delegitimized.”
3. Define power, values and interest as used in this article.  What is the relationship between the three?

Citizens Versus the New Public Manager:  The Problem of Mutual Empowerment : B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre, Administration & Society 2000, 32: 9-28.

Questions that apply to article:

1. What are the positive and negative consequences of extending influence to more segments of society?
2. Explain the authors’ argument that the concept of empowerment could potentially undermine three important values in Western societies: representative government, accountable bureaucracy, and a strong and effective state.

The common good as an invisible hand: Machiavelli’s legacy to public management: Claude Rochet. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 74 (3): 497-521

Questions that apply to article:

1. What are the three concepts identified by Machiavelli in managing public affairs?
2. What is the relevance of Machiavelli today to the understanding of organizational politics?
3. How would Machiavelli deal with innovation and uncertainty within an organization?
4. What is the public good?

Lesson for leaders: Positive organization studies meets Niccolo Machiavelli: Miguel Pina e Cunha, Stewart Clegg, and Armenio Rego, Leadership 2013, 9 (4): 450-465.

Questions that apply to article:

1. Why is Machiavelli important to the discussion of Positive Organizational Scholarship?
2. What are the Machiavelli’s observations on leadership?