power and authority
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DEFINITION OF TERMS
1. POWER
Power in its broadest sense is the ability to achieve a desired outcome, sometimes seen as the power to do something. In politics, however, power is usually thought of as a relationship; that is, the ability to influence the behavior of others in a manner not of their choosing(Heywood 2013)
Weber variously defined power as the probability that an actor in a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despise resistance, regardless of the basis of in which this probability lies (Lukes 1986)
2. AUTHORITY
According to Henry Fayol authority is the right given to a manager or director to achieve the objectives of an organization, it is the right to get things done through others. The right to give orders to the subordinates and to get obedience them because managers cannot do their work without authority, it is the right to give orders and power to exact obedience
INTRODUCTION
This essay seeks to compare and contrast power and authority. As already mentioned, power is the ability to make people act in a certain way. Normally people always associate power with the use of applied force but it does not necessarily imply the use of physical force only. Power can exist in two forms namely; soft power and hard power. Soft power is a staple of democratic politics. The ability to establish preferences tends to be associated with intangible assets such as an attractive personality, culture, political values and institutions and policies that are seen as legitimate or having moral authority (Nye 2004 23). This basically means that soft power involves the use of looks and personality to influence other people’s actions. For example, other countries observe America as a well-developed and powerful state, in that way most people are more aspired such that they do their studies there. By doing so, the American state has influenced other people to think of them in a
DEFINITION OF TERMS
1. POWER
Power in its broadest sense is the ability to achieve a desired outcome, sometimes seen as the power to do something. In politics, however, power is usually thought of as a relationship; that is, the ability to influence the behavior of others in a manner not of their choosing(Heywood 2013)
Weber variously defined power as the probability that an actor in a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despise resistance, regardless of the basis of in which this probability lies (Lukes 1986)
2. AUTHORITY
According to Henry Fayol authority is the right given to a manager or director to achieve the objectives of an organization, it is the right to get things done through others. The right to give orders to the subordinates and to get obedience them because managers cannot do their work without authority, it is the right to give orders and power to exact obedience
INTRODUCTION
This essay seeks to compare and contrast power and authority. As already mentioned, power is the ability to make people act in a certain way. Normally people always associate power with the use of applied force but it does not necessarily imply the use of physical force only. Power can exist in two forms namely; soft power and hard power. Soft power is a staple of democratic politics. The ability to establish preferences tends to be associated with intangible assets such as an attractive personality, culture, political values and institutions and policies that are seen as legitimate or having moral authority (Nye 2004 23). This basically means that soft power involves the use of looks and personality to influence other people’s actions. For example, other countries observe America as a well-developed and powerful state, in that way most people are more aspired such that they do their studies there. By doing so, the American state has influenced other people to think of them in a