AUTHORITY‚ DELEGATION AND DECENTRALISATION What is an authority? Authority is the cement of organisation structure in which various units of organisation are integrated. Without authority a manager cesses to be a manager. It is the authority that gives managers power to act. Authority is glue that holds organisation together. It is impossible to have an organisation unless some persons have the authority to command action of others. The word Authority is derived from the Latin word “auctoritas”
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Week 9 Essay 1 Power and Authority Although they are very closely related‚ power and authority are two different concepts. Power is needed in order to establish authority‚ yet it is also completely distinct from authority (Week 9 Study Notes). 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
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to go out on school nights‚ have you ever considered the power and control of authority around you? Thinking about your parents‚ elder siblings‚ teachers‚ the city mayor and even the president‚ all of those are the authority figures around you in the daily life. Because authority is not always correct and can be easily abused‚ people need to have their own judgment and combat the injustice when it happens. Authority is the person with higher ability. Thus‚ he/she has the power and responsibility
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In Fahrenheit 451‚ written by Ray Bradbury‚ authority is viewed as ruthless and the individual is portrayed as innocent. This is also emphasised in two related texts‚ Whose Life Is It Anyway? By Brian Clark‚ and Shawshank Redemption‚ directed by Frank Darabont. The themes of ruthlessness and innocence are exemplified throughout all three texts‚ through the concept of the authority and the individual. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ authority is depicted as ruthless. This is shown throughout the
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The usage of CPO futures Major group of users of CPO futures who are corporate users‚ institutional investors and individual investors used the CPO futures as a tool to hedge against a price increase or decline in palm oil or other close substitutes‚ such as soya or rapeseed oil in near future. CPO futures are also used as an alternative for holding physical palm oil until it is required in the physical market and they are traded in a directional market movement by buying low or selling high
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a year * 1-2 years * 3-5 years * Ever since it hit the mainstream in 2002 How often do you log in to your Facebook in a day? * Once * 2-3 times * 4-5 times * 6-10 times * I lost count‚ too many times Facebook Usage | Please rank your top three choices. (1=first choice‚ 2=second choice‚ and 3=third choice) 1. Based on the following activities‚ which do you perform most on Facebook? * Play games * Chat via Facebook chat/ Message friends * Poke/Nudge
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Usages of Foil Characters Everyone in this world has someone who is contradictory to them. Similarly‚ in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho‚ the protagonist‚ Santiago‚ has many foils. Santiago‚ the hero of this story‚ is an adventurous shepherd from a small Andalusian town who sets out to achieve his personal legend‚ his dream‚ to find treasure at the Egyptian pyramids. The author of The Alchemist uses foils to allude to Santiago’s traits‚ and helps the reader apprehend the different situations and other
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Chapter 2 of FM 7-22.7 Duties‚ Responsibility‚ And Authority of the NCO. As a noncommissioned officer‚ it is your responsibility to know what authority you have as a leader‚ you must know what authority you have and where it comes from. When exercising your authority you are expected to use good judgement. The Army defines authority as this ( found in FM 7-22.7 ) Authority is the right to direct soldiers to do certain things‚ Authority is the legitimate power of leaders to direct soldiers
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Topic: Differentiate between power and authority and how they linked with leadership To answer this question of the difference between Power and Authority‚ we must first understand what both Power and Authority actually mean. According to the dictionary (www.dictionary.com) Power comes from the Latin ‘potere’ which means ‘to be able.’ Just from this little description we can tell that to have power would mean that you are able to do things or control people and resources. The dictionary then
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November 30‚ 2013 Submission to Authority Marines are one of the most disciplined armed forces in our world today. They are taught to receive orders and to follow them without question. But when should submission to authority stop? Should orders be disregarded when they conflict with a person’s own morals and consciousness? Maybe they should‚ but in the Milgram experiment‚ it was found that it is actually very easy for a person to accept and follow orders while leaving out their own judgment. This
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