POWER:
Power means the ability to do some work in a qualitative way or to impose something to someone. In the context of organizations, the term POWER means the ability of some individual who can impose his/her thoughts or impose some work on others. It plays an essential role in an organization for designing their policies, rules and other conditions. In an organization, as there are number of people working, so to hold them together, to bring them under one umbrella, to guide them properly or to train them according to the firm’s condition, power play a vital role. It works to utilize all the mandatory resources of a firm.
On the other side, some of the individuals who got the authority, they use it in a negative way by imposing their personal works to those employees who are working under them. This might play a very bad effect in the mind of employees and also for an organization.
No one have to use their power to achieve their personal objectives in the context of organization because it is an unethical act in the eyes of business as well as world.
LINK BETWEEN POWER AND LEADERSHIP:
The term leadership means to lead someone or some groups.
In an organization, the leaders are those who lead the employees for the purpose of attaining some goals or set of goals. A person may not be the leader until and unless he had a desire and willpower to accomplish his/her position.
The main link between power and leader is that the both term are dependent on each other. As above we have discussed that the person who got a power can impose things on others, same like that leaders impose responsibilities on their employees. Power could be a part of leadership because leaders have the authority to run their employees. But there is ...
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4. ACCALAIMING: An individual takes a credit personally of the work. To praise oneself or boast about one's own achievements.
FOR EXAMPLE: An organization got something favorable, like a great profit so an employee takes the credit of it personally.
5. FLATTERY: Saying nice things. Make yourself likeable.
FOR EXAMPLE: Appreciating someone’s effectiveness and his work. Follow him.
6. FOVOURS: Tit for tat. Do something nice for someone. Support someone.
FOR EXAMPLE: If an employee helped you in doing your work, you also helped him by providing him sufficient facilities or by helping him in his work.
7. ASSOCIATION: Relating you with others by showing or proving different matches.
FOR EXAMPLE: Telling your boss that your elder brother is his classmate. What a coincidence.
Power is a difficult concept to define conclusively or definitively however, Bourdieu explains power to be a symbolic construct that is perpetuated through every day actions and behaviours of a society, that manipulate power relations to create, maintain and force the conforming of peoples to the given habitus of that society (Bourdieu, 1977). Power, is a force created through the
Leadership is definitely about power and an effective leader is able to utilize both types of powers rather than relying on one or the other. Formal power can be used by leadership to remove obstacles or roadblocks faced by employees and to make both hard and easy decisions regarding the organization. Inspiration, influence, trust, and loyalty are all elements that create a high performing and content staff and all these elements are related to the use of informal power. It is important for an effective leader to create a balance between both kinds of power in order to effectively motivate and influence their staff using power.
Power. It is defined as the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. Throughout time, certain individuals have acquired power in their society as a way to govern and keep order among their community. Power is not a new concept; it was used in the past by many emperors, kings, and queens, and is still being used by presidents, prime ministers, and dictators. Although, it has been used to further progress societies into what the world is like today, not all power has been used for the best of mankind. But what goes awry to make power turn corrupt? In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, it is illustrated how power can turn corrupt, when authoritative figures, who possess power, abuse it for their personal gain, rather than for the common good of the society.
I find this to be very accurate, both in relation to my Leadership Assessment Quiz and Power Orientation test results as well as my own personal stance on leadership and power. Power is defined as “a person, group, or nation having great influence or control over others,” (Moore, 1996, p. 837), whereas leadership is seen as the ability of one who leads or inspires. The notable difference between the two, being “control” and “inspire.”
Power has been defined as the psychological relations over another to get them to do what you want them to do. We are exposed to forms of power from the time of birth. Our parents exercise power over us to behave in a way they deem appropriate. In school, teachers use their power to help us learn. When we enter the work world the power of our boss motivates us to perform and desire to move up the corporate ladder so that we too can intimidate someone with power one day. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Kurtz had a power over the jungle and its people that was inexplicable.
Unfortunately, being inspiring to employees is not enough. These situations occur when employees face challenges in accomplishing goals. In such situations, a leader needs to exercise power and influence to push forth the desired goals. While the course identified five sources of power, I believe only three should be considered for an effective leader. The first is legitimate power (6), which is often considered the first source of power in the organizations I have worked in. The source of power comes...
Power is authority and strength, which is any form of motive force or energy, ability to act, or control. When too much power is given, a dictatorship government can form, in which all decisions are made by one authority. In the book Animal Farm, by George Orwell the author portrays how “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Lord Acton).
Power is the ability to obtain, retain, and motivate people and to organize informational and material resources to accomplish a task( Leadership, n.d). Power is central to the leadership process in the development of a manager’s self-confidence and willingness to support staff members ( Schmidt & Wilkinson, 1990). The desire for power is universal. From this vantage point, power should be accepted as a natural part of any individual organization. Power is not evenly distributed among individuals or groups, but every individual has some degree of power.
Power is and always will be a hot topic in any organizational setting. What exactly is power? According to Rea Andre, power is “the ability to mobilize resources to accomplish some end . . . an individual’s capacity to influence decisions” (Robins, DeCenzo, Coulter 2011, 130). I personally prefer to merge the two and define power as someone’s ability to influence employees’ actions and behaviors to accomplish or meet organizational needs. This paper is going to focus on two types of power personal and position. Referent and expert are types of personal power, while reward, coercive, and legitimate are position powers. These came to be by French and Raven in 1959, and have stood the test of time.
What makes a leader? Is it power? No. Leadership being able to make people or a group of persons work effective together.
There are several sources of power, some of them are authority, reward, expertise, and coercion.
All of us would love to have personal power, the power to manifest our dreams, the power to remain calm and loving in the face of fear, and the power to stay centered in ourselves in the face of attack.
Power is the ability to make people say and/or do things. It is the ability to get whatever you want. Power is necessary in any society, otherwise all would break loose; leaders must be established. When taken to an extreme, power is not good. As Lord Acton said, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." An example of this is Adolph Hitler from Germany. He thought that he could not be stopped and that rules did not apply to him. By being given absolute power, he altered the government. No one attempted to stop this in the German country, because of his con...
The concept of industrial relations involves the interaction of employers and employees, for that reason without power and authority will be a lack of direction and control over the system of industrial relations. Authority frequently comes from the duties and responsibilities delegated to a position holder in a bureaucratic structure whilst Power is the possession of authority, control, or influence by which a person influences the actions of others, either by direct authority or by some other, added intangible
Power is defined in the course study notes as the “ability of individuals or groups to get what they want despite the opposition”. Power is derived from a variety of sources including knowledge, experience and environmental uncertainties (Denhardt et al, 2001). It is also important to recognize that power is specific to each situation. Individuals or groups that may be entirely powerful in one situation may find themselves with little or no power in another. The county Registrar of Voters, who is my boss, is a perfect example. In running the local elections office, she can exercise the ultimate power. However, in a situation where she attempted to get the county selected for a desirable, statewide pilot project, she was powerless, completely at the mercy of the Secretary of State. Power is difficult to measure and even to recognize, yet it plays a major role in explaining authority. In organizations, power is most likely exercised in situations where “the stakes are high, resources are limited, and goals and processes are unclear” (Denhardt et al, 2001). The absence of power in organizations forces us to rely on soley hierarchical authority.