Leadership and Power Base Development: Using Power Effectively to Manage Diversity and Job-Related Interdependence in Complex Organizations Barton J. Michelson Mention the word power and what comes to mind? Power is evil‚ corrupt‚ self-serving‚ manipulative‚ hurtful‚ and possibly “America’s last dirty word.”1 These words speak to the dark side of power. There is‚ however‚ a positive face to addressing power acquisition‚ power-base development‚ and power use. The purpose of this article is to consider
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for a weak manager? Managers need power to do their jobs‚ because their jobs require them to influence others. Consequently‚ managers who feel powerless to influence others experience a tremendous amount of frustration and stress. Their staff members tend to feel frustrated too. Power means many different things to different people. For some‚ power is seen as corrupt. For others‚ the more power they have‚ the more successful they feel. For even others‚ power is of no interest at all. Positions
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POWER. The most important and unyielding condition of management isn’t human relations‚ communication skills or employee empowerment‚ but power. POWER. Defined as the ability to influence and produce a desired effect on other individuals without having one’s own behavior modified in any undesired way by other individuals. On one hand‚ some people view power as being limited in amount‚ kind of like a pie‚ with constant conflict about who gets the largest slice. On the other hand‚ people view it as
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Five Bases of Power Claudette Irizarry BCOM230 November 19‚ 2012 Katalin Ogle Five Bases of Power There are five bases of power that may be used in a professional environment. Referent power‚ coercive power‚ legitimate power‚ reward power and expert power. Each one of these different types of power is used in different ways to reach the same result. Some forms of power are personal and some are formal. In my professional career I have used at least three of these types of power. Referent
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Communication and Bases of Power Student Name BCOM/230 Date: September 9‚ 2013 Instructor Name Communication and Bases of Power Power influences our behavior and the way we communicate in the workplace. Power is defined as the affected behavior of one person from the influence of another person with higher authority. Depending on how the power is used‚ it may have a positive or negative effect in an organization. According to Robbins and Judge (2009)‚ there
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The five bases of power in the book are: (1) Legitimate power‚ (2) Referent power‚ (3) Expert power‚ (4) Reward power‚ and (5) Coercive power. The group member can influence others because of being elected or appointed‚ that means this person has legitimate power. Legitimate power comes from occupying a position of responsibility. People have high legitimate power should also have a high position of responsibility. For example‚ in the small group‚ the group leader or chairman should have legitimate
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When we mention the word “Power” most of the people will think that power is evil‚ corrupt‚ self-serving‚ manipulative and hurtful. However‚ there is a positive face to addressing power acquisition‚ power-base development‚ and power use. When power is used in an ethical and purposeful way‚ there is nothing evil about it. Leadership is “interpersonal influence‚ exercised in a situation‚ and directed‚ through communication process‚ toward the attainment of a specified goal or goals. (Tannenbaum‚ Weschler
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French and Raven came up with five different bases of power. Coercive‚ legitimate‚ reward‚ referent‚ and expert are the five types of power. Someone can create power through one or more of these bases. There is the possibility that one base power may undermine another. One must learn how to use these powers in a positive way to create a positive relationship. Coercive power gives employers power by having the employees fearful of punishment. Termination‚ demotion‚ or loss of rewards could be
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The five bases of power are divided into two groups; formal power and personal power‚ and further subdivided into five specific categories under each group. Categories of formal power are coercive power‚ reward power‚ and legitimate power‚ and they come from the authority of one person over another. Categories of personal power are expert power and referent power‚ and they come from one’s characteristics rather than one’s authority. “Coercive power base depends on fear of the negative results from
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Influential Powers Kaplan University Influential Powers In summary‚ the article from the Kaplan Online Library I read stated that social influence and power strategies have existed for as long as humans needed to interact (Raven‚ 2008). Bertram Raven‚ the author‚ states that people have utilized formal or informal power strategies and influences with varying degrees of knowledge and effectiveness of doing so (p. 10). Raven cites his original statements in his paper from 1959 regarding bases of power
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