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    Obedience”‚ an article which granted him many awards and is now considered a landmark. In this piece‚ he evaluates the extent to which a participant is willing to conform to an authority figure who commands him to execute acts that conflict with his moral beliefs. Milgram discovers that the majority of participants do obey to authority. In this research‚ the subjects are misled because they are part of a learning experience that is not about what they are told. This experiment was appropriate despite this

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    environment‚ the authority figures‚ or the managers‚ are inclined to assert pressure on the employees to ensure their job is executed according to plan. Occasionally‚ the managers may take arbitrary actions that are evidently unnecessary and abusive. In the perspective of the subordinate this is deemed unjust and is the main source of their frustration. These denunciations only depict the managers as baseless‚ evil creatures that derive pleasure from their subordinate’s misery. But are all authority figures

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    interests and explain your reasons: 1. I would enjoy the authority for seeing that documents within patient files are complete‚ legible‚ and organized appropriately. • True True • False because: There are times when patient records are unreadable and there should be someone with the ability to go back over the records and make sure that the doctor can read the information provided. 2. I would enjoy the authority for ensuring that patient files are filed accurately.

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    rationalization processes‚ disenchantment and secularization that he linked with the increase of modernity and capitalism. He wrote expansively on bureaucracy and how it had an affect on organizational structure. Weber’s concern in the mode of authority and power‚ and his prevalent interest in contemporary rationalization trends‚ made him concern himself with the function of contemporary large-scale initiatives in the organizational‚ economic and political domination. He argued that Bureaucratic

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    the negative results from failing to comply such as controlling by force of basic physiological or safety needs. 2. Reward power: Compliance achieved based on the ability to distribute rewards that others view as valuable. 3. Legitimate (formal authority) power: The power a person receives as a result of his or her position in the formal hierarchy of an organization. B. Personal power = Influence derived from an individual’s characteristics. 1. Expert power: Influence based on special skills or

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    peer­reviewed scientific journals” (Manne 2011)‚ a part of a letter written to every US senator from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in regards to climate change. Following this Manne uses an appeal to authority as a persuasive technique. Climate change being an issue where expertise is paramount‚ the use of authority anchors the argument to what is right and wrong‚ clear. Manne does this by bringing up Naomi Oreskes‚ a historian of science‚ whose work showed evidence of the consensus of the fundamental theory of climate change

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    formal authority and substantive authority. * Section 127(1) Corporations Act‚ * Section 127 gives formal authority to sign documents. * To establish substantive authority (in the absence of a board resolution) the party to the contract would need to show that the officers or agents have enough actual or apparent authority to bind the company. * There are two types of authority that an agent of a company might have: * actual authority; * apparent authority.

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    Obedience and Listening Let me start this essay by writing the definition of obedience and listening‚ which are the subjects of this writing. Obedience - compliance with someone’s wishes or o orders or acknowledgment of their authority [1] . Listening take notice of and act on what someone says; respond to advice or request [2]. Another definition I came across the internet which made the topic of this essay easier to understand is that obedience - comes from the Latin root word OBOEDIRE ‚ which

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    concept of Bureaucracy. Max Weber’s idea of state was that ‘a state is a compulsory association which successfully claims a monopoly of legitimate use of force within a given territory.’ State alone possesses power‚ authority & legitimacy. Weber concluded that it is the legitimate authority of state to exercise power over its people. Max Weber was a German lawyer; a politician‚ a historian‚ political Economist & Sociologist. He worked as professor of Economics. His most famous work relates to

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    commands. But‚ these people are simply exercising their power‚ and only have a relationship with them asymmetrically. The person will authority has the ability to limit the choices of another‚ and uses physically or psychologically pain only to pursue their goal. A person can rightfully deserve power‚ or obtain power by acting savagely. Either way‚ having authority in society can force people to act inhuman‚ and make people suffer dramatically. Similarly‚ in the article “Simulated prison in ‘71 Showed

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