Power and Panel Interviewing

Abstract

This chapter illustrates leadership and power dynamics in selection decision-making. It relates this to Henry Mintzberg’s (2006) claim that leadership can be found at any level rather than only at higher levels in organisations. It does so with reference to the earlier conceptual framework of conscious and unconscious logic, as well as to theories of position power, latent expert power, and operational power and also to Michel Foucault’s (1975, 1978, 1980, 1982, 2002) concept of power-knowledge.