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    Power & Authority

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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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    Below‚ I have summarized the sense of each of the first thirteen paragraphs of David Crystal’s “2b or Not 2b?” Your talk is to summarize the remaining paragraphs. Paragraph One: David Crystal summarizes John Humphry’s essay “I h8 txt msgs.” Crystal doesn’t summarize everything Humphrey says. He merely establishes the main point‚ that text messaging is destroying English. Paragraph Two: DC also summarizes John Sutherland’s paper from 2002 which asserts that texting is an ugly‚ illiterate

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    Power and Authority

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    Many people think that power and authority is the same thing. They are not. They have the same desired outcome but by definition are different. Merriam-Webster defines power as “the ability or right to control people or things” (“Power”). Authority is defined as “the power to give orders or make decisions: the power or right to direct or control someone or something” (“Authority”). Power is often identified by people who hold a particular office or position. Just because a person may assert a powerful

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    with Pro Golf Company. An agent’s authority can be either actual or apparent. Actual authority comes in two forms express and/or implied. On page 918‚ it states that express authority is actual authority the principal has manifested onto the agent in very specific or detailed language and the agent has implied authority to act in a manner in which he believes the principal wants him to act. Apparent authority‚ on the other hand‚ is when an agent lacks actual authority‚ however‚ due to the principal’s

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    KELETSO NTAELENG KGOPO ID NUMBER: 201203375 POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSIGNMENT 1 Question selected: Using concrete examples‚ compare and contrast power and authority.... Power and authority are some of the basic concepts used in the study of Politics. This essay will focus on defining these concepts‚ and will also discuss the similarities and differences between the two. It will commence with a general discussion of these fundamentals‚ after which it will elaborate on these definitions

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    Powere and Authority

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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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    Typology of Authorities

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    Weber’s Typology of Authority Max Weber‚ who is also know as one of the principal architect of modern social science‚ also has the distinct honor of being one of the foremost social theorist in the 20th century (Kim‚ 2007). Weber argued that all oppressive structures and all uses of power must exist within a legitimated order which is based on a complex mixture of two kinds of legitimating factors: subjective and objective (Allan‚ 2005‚ p. 151). Underlying the subjective and objective legitimacy

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    C. FOUR LAWS GOVERNING LOGICAL OPPOSITIONS 1. Law of Contradiction 3. Law of Sub-Alternation 2. Law of Contrariety 4. Law of Sub-Contrariety 1. Law of Contradiction → Two contradictory propositions cannot be both true and both false at the same time. * If A is true‚ O is false * If A is false‚ O is true * If O is true‚ A is false * If O is false‚ A is true * If E is true‚ I is false * If E is false‚ I is true * If I is true‚ E is false

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    Delegation and Authority

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    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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    Signature Tutorial 2 Nolwazi Dlamini Traditional Authority is based on customs and tradition and the long established way of doing things. (Heywood‚ 2007:220). This authority tends to be irrational and inconsistent and perpetuates the status quo. Traditional authority does not change or evolve. Traditional authority helps to shape the political culture by keeping values such as receptivity‚ respect and duty. An example of this type of authority would be a patriarchal structure where “the servants

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