Information power

Information power: People in the corporate sector or at high levels of the human service hierarchy may distort or withhold information for their own gains by enhancing their own expert power, thus becoming indispensable to the organisation (Yukl, 2002. p. 152).

This type of power in self-explanatory. A person can either use Information Power to gain power over others by withholding information, or increase their power by passing of information to the right people in the organization or fabricate / make up information to decrease other peoples power or credibility.

Information power can be use like Ecological Power to make one’s-self indispensable to an organization, by being the source of information that the organization needs. Like wise by distorting information to affect others in the organization can cause great stress to the people that this power is aimed at. So be aware that if you use information power to make some ones life difficult, you are using psychological terrorism and may cause great psychological harm. This includes relationships.