The ability to influence or outright control the behaviour of people.
Power can be seen as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as endemic to humans as social beings.
Power as a means to make social actions possible as much as it may contain or prevent them.
2. • The ability to influence or outright control the
behaviour of people.
• Power can be seen as evil or unjust, but the
exercise of power is accepted as endemic to
humans as social beings.
• Power as a means to make social actions possible
as much as it may contain or prevent them.
3. • POWER OVER
― The ability to dominate another person or a group.
―Usually comes from force and threat.
• POWER TO
―The ability to do something on one’s own (sources:
intellect, resources, knowledge, stamina and etc.)
4. • POWER WITH
― is similar also to “power to” in that it reflects ability
―The ability to work with others to get something done
by cooperation.
5. • Steven Lukes defines the concept of power by
saying that “A exercise power over B when A
affects B in a manner contrary to B’s Interests.”
• He describes power as having three dimensions
and has divided power into three distinct ‘
faces’, each focusing on a specific aspect of
power.
6. • ‘open face of power’
• The ability to control or influence in an open and
direct way.
• In the classical idea of political power, meaning
the government has the power to make
decisions on behalf of the people.
7. • “power is exercised behind closed doors”
• This is because you can decide or limit what will be
discussed and more importantly what cannot be
discussed, effectively controlling the situation.
• Power is not just about decision making, it is about
preventing decisions being made or reducing the
choices which can be made.
8. • Power to shape desires
• It seeks to identify “ the means though which power
influences, shapes and determines conceptions of
necessities, possibilities and strategies of challenge in
situation of conflict.”
9. Power has been an important aspect of
human civilization since time immemorial.
Power might be physical, political or
social. In the context of business as well,
power dynamics tend to influence
decisions and people transactions heavily.
10. • Involves the usage of threat to make people do
what one desires. In the organizational set up, it
translates into threatening someone to transfer,
firing, demotions etc. it basically forces people
to submit to one’s demand for the fear of losing
something.
11. • Uses rewards, perks, new projects or training opportunities,
better roles and monetary benefits to influence people.
• However an interesting aspect of this type of power is that, it
is not powerful enough in itself, as decisions related to
rewards do not rest solely with the person promising them,
because in organizations, a lot of other people come into
play like senior managers and board.
12. • This power emanates from an official position held by
someone, be it an organization, bureaucracy or
government and etc. The duration of this power is short
lived as a person can use it only till the time he/she holds
the position, as well as, the scope of the power is small
as it is strictly defined by the position held.
13. • This is a personal kind of power which owes its
genesis to the skills and expertise possessed by
an individual, which is higher quality and not
easily available.
14. • Wielded by celebrities and film stars as they
have huge following amongst masses who like
them, identify with them and follow them.
hence they exert lasting influence on a large
number of people for a large number of
decisions; like what car to buy to which
candidate to choose for a higher office in the
country.
Editor's Notes
Power
- to get someone to do something you want done.
-make things happen in the way you want.
Influence
-what you have when you exercise power
- make things happen in the way you want.
Power over
I have power over him/her
I have the power to make him do what I want him to do
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FORCE NEGOTIATION AND PERSUASION
POWER WITH
Work together to solve a common problem
These include; decision-making power, agenda-setting power and ideological power.
provides a framework for choosing courses of action in a complex, uncertain, or conflicting situation. the choices of possible actions, and the prediction of expected outcomes, derive from a logical analysis of the decision situation.
Secretive face
Luke said that you have real power if you can set the agenda. Why?
Maging organisado ang paguusap
Maging banayad ang daloy ng mga usapin
Maiwasan ang pagtatalo dahil kung minsan ang mismong nagsulat yung may mungkahing solusyon
Lahat halos ng usapin ay matatalakay kung may agenda.
It allows powerful groups, such as government or big business, to make people think that they agree to something or want something that may actually be harmful to their own interests.
Gabay sa pagkilos
Pamantayang sinusunod ng mga mamamayan
Pwersang nagpapakilos sa kanila bilang isang bansa
So POWER CAN BE DEFINED IN MANY WAYS,
BUT MOSTLY IT IS SIMPLY THE ABILITY TO GET WANT YOU WANT.
So defining power can be difficult as it is understood and interpreted in several ways however power can definitely not be called a force which gets you what you want.
Power basically emanates from position or authority which can influence people both positively and negatively.
pumipilit
Leaders ability to motivate hs subordinates by providing incentives for performance in the form of resources.
Negative: produce compliance but not commitment
If an engineer warns a group of managers that a particular design might cause a computer battery to overheat and catch fire they believe the engineer due to the engineer’s credentials, track record and training.
So power, can be defined in a number of ways however what is important is the usage of the power by people who possess it.
For example are communism, fascism and some varieties of nationalism.