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Chapter 9 (power, conflict and coalition)
-Political assumption
1. Organizations are coalition of different individuals and interest groups.
2. Coalition members have enduring differences in values, beliefs, information, interest and perceptions of reality.
3. Most important decisions involve allocating scarce resources- deciding who gets what.
(Implications of the Political propositions)
- The assumptions of the political frame also explain why organizations are inevitably political. A coalition form because its members need each other, even though their interest may only partly overlap.
- The assumptions of enduring differences implies that political activity is more visible and dominant under conditions of diversity than of homogeneity.
Power and Decision making
-Power can be viewed from multiple perspectives.
- Managers make rational decisions, monitor to ensure that decisions are implemented and assess how well subordinates carry out directives.
- More than structuralist, they emphasize limits of authority and tend to be focus on influence that enhances mutuality and collaboration.
- The political frame views authority as only one among many forms of power.
Sources of Power
Authorities and partisans both have many potential sources of power.
- Position power( authority ): Positions confer certain levels of legitimate authority. Professors assign grades, judges, grades.... it is as helpful to be in the right unit as it is to hold the right job.
-Control of rewards: The ability to deliver jobs, money, political support or other reward brings power.
- Coercive power: Coercive power rests on the ability to constrain, block, interfere or punish. A chilling example is the rise of suicide attacks i recent decades.
- Information and expertise: Power flows to those with the information and know how to solve important problems. It flows to marketing experts in consumer products industries to the faculty in elite university and to
Chapter 9 (power, conflict and coalition)
-Political assumption
1. Organizations are coalition of different individuals and interest groups.
2. Coalition members have enduring differences in values, beliefs, information, interest and perceptions of reality.
3. Most important decisions involve allocating scarce resources- deciding who gets what.
(Implications of the Political propositions)
- The assumptions of the political frame also explain why organizations are inevitably political. A coalition form because its members need each other, even though their interest may only partly overlap.
- The assumptions of enduring differences implies that political activity is more visible and dominant under conditions of diversity than of homogeneity.
Power and Decision making
-Power can be viewed from multiple perspectives.
- Managers make rational decisions, monitor to ensure that decisions are implemented and assess how well subordinates carry out directives.
- More than structuralist, they emphasize limits of authority and tend to be focus on influence that enhances mutuality and collaboration.
- The political frame views authority as only one among many forms of power.
Sources of Power
Authorities and partisans both have many potential sources of power.
- Position power( authority ): Positions confer certain levels of legitimate authority. Professors assign grades, judges, grades.... it is as helpful to be in the right unit as it is to hold the right job.
-Control of rewards: The ability to deliver jobs, money, political support or other reward brings power.
- Coercive power: Coercive power rests on the ability to constrain, block, interfere or punish. A chilling example is the rise of suicide attacks i recent decades.
- Information and expertise: Power flows to those with the information and know how to solve important problems. It flows to marketing experts in consumer products industries to the faculty in elite university and to