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THE CONCEPT OF

POWER
Reported By; Lyngel Manguba
Celestino Utig
Art Aeron Sabugo
The Concept of Power
Power is the one of the important concepts and plays a huge role in politics,
from governing how decisions are made to how political actors interact with
one another.
The Meaning of Power
• Politics always involves the exercise of power by one person or persons to
another person or persons (Shively, 2012). Power is the ability to get
someone to do something he/she wants to accomplish, thus making things
happen in the way he/she wants. In having such ability, along with the
exercise of power is an influence. Thus, influence is the process by which a
person affects the behavior and feelings of another person.
SOURCES OF POWER
1 . ORGANIZATIONAL POWER- is a power derived from a person’s position in an organization and
from control over valuable resources afforded by that position .
 Reward Power- It is the extent to which a leader can use extrinsic and intrinsic rewards to
control and influence other people.
 Coercive Power- It is the degree to which a leader can deny desired rewards or administer
punishments to control other people and let them follow his wants.
 Legitimate Power- it is the extent to which a leader can use subordinates’ internalized values
or beliefs that the boss a right of command to control his subordinates’ behavior. That if
legitimacy is lost, authority will not be accepted by subordinates. It is otherwise known as
formal hierarchical authority.
 Information Power- The leader has the access to and control of information. This
complements legitimate hierarchical power. This could be granted to specialist and managers
in the middle of the information system. The people may protect information in order to
increase their power.
 Process Power- The leader has full control over the methods of production and analysis.
Thereby, placing an individual in the position of influencing how inputs are transformed into
outputs as well as managing analytical process used to make choices.
 Representative Power- The legal right conferred to speak by the firm as a representative of a
potentially significant group composed of individuals from departments or outside the firm.
Helps complex organizations deal with a variety of constituencies.
2. Individual Power and Personal Power
• Is a power derived from personal characteristics that are of value to the organization
 Expert power – The ability to control another person’s behavior through the possession of
knowledge, experience, or judgement that the other person needs but does not have.
• Is relative, not absolute.
 Rational persuasion
• The ability to control another person’s behavior by convincing the other person of the
desirability of a goal and a reasonable way of achieving it.
• Much of a supervisor’s daily activity involves rational persuasion.
 Referent power
• The ability to control another’s behavior because the person wants to identify with the power
source.
• Can be enhanced by linking to morality and ethics and long-term vision.
Symbols of Power
• Since organizational charts only reveal authority and not power, it is important to determine what
the symbol of power are across most organizations. One of the more easily identified power
symbols that of a uniform for a police officer.

A. Kanter’s Symbols of power


The primary characteristics of kanter’s seven symbols of power is that they provide an ability to aid or
assist another person. Her symbols are active and other directed.
The symbols are;
1.Ability to intercede for someone in trouble
2. Ability to get placements for favored employees
3. Exceeding budget limitations
4. Procuring above –average raises for employees
5. Getting items on the agenda at meetings
6. Access to recent information
7. Having top managers seek out one’sopinions
B. Kanter’s Symbols of Powerlessness
Powerlessness- is a lack of power , which may have different symptoms in managers at various
levels of the organization.
C. Korda’s Symbols of Power
Korda’s symbols of power are easier to determine, and they include office furnishings, time
power, and standing by.

Ways to expand power (Schermerhorn, 2003)


• Clear define roles and responsibilities.
• Provide opportunities for creative problem solving coupled with the discretion to act.
• Emphasize different ways of exercising influence.
• Provide support to individuals so they become comfortable with developing their power.
• Expand inducements for thinking and acting , not just obeying.
Two Faces of factors

• McClelland takes a strand for the use of authority in a right or wrong fashion.
1.Personal power- It use for personal gain, and results in a win-lose approach.
2. Social control- Involves the use of power to create motivation or to accomplish group goals.

Influence Tactics
1.Consultation
2. Rational persuasion
3. Inspirational appeal
4. Integration
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