hi, Iltaf Khokhar here public administration student at university of Sindh, Jamshoro iltafh97@gmail.com

1. University of Sindh
Power, politics and Ethics
Presented by; Iltaf khokhar

2. Presentation contents
 What is Power?
 Types of Power
 Coercive Power
 Reward power
 Expert power
 Positive Effects of Power
 Types of Politics
 Forming Coalitions
 Effects of Politics
 ethics

3. Power & Politics
 Power and Politics are two face of a single coin.
 They move parallelily together.

4. What is Power?
 Power refers to the possession of authority
 And influence over others.
 Keys To have Power
 Dependence
 Importance
 Scarcity
 Nonsubsititutabilty

5. Types of Power
Coercive
power
Legitimate
power
Reward
power
Referent
power
Expert
power

6. Coercive Power
 Coercive power is the ability of a manager to force an
employee to follow an order by threatening the employee
with punishment if the employee does not comply with the
order .
 Example of coercive power
 Threats of write –ups,
 Demotions,
 pay cuts, layoffs
 Terminations if employees don’t follow orders.

7. Reward power
 Reward power is simply the power of a manager to give
some type of reward to an employee as a means to
influence the employee to act.
 Reward can be
 Tangible
 Intangible

8. Tangible reward
 Tangible reward are physical things like
Monetary awards,
wage or salary increases,
bonuses, plaques,
certificates, medals

9. Expert power
 Expert power is power based upon employees perception
that a manager or some other number of an organization
has a high level of knowledge or a specialized set of skills
that other employees or members of the organization do
not possess

10. Positive Effects of Power
 Leadership responsibilities
 Organizational and personal goals
 Inspire commitment
 Creativity
 Reduction of bureaucratic obstacles
 Negative Effects of power
 bully bosses

11. Why Is Politics Required?
 To come in the limelight and gain undue attention and
apprecication from the seniors.
 To obtain advantages which are beyond their control.
 Getting thing done at right time.

12. Types of Politics
 Attacking and blaming
 Controlling information
 Forming coalitions
 Creating obligations
 Managing impressions

13. Controlling Information
 Maintaining secrets
 Incomplete information
 Wrong information
 Destroying information

14. Forming Coalitions
Forming
aspects in others
Groupism Rationalism

15. Effects of Politics
 Decrease job satisfaction
 Increased anxiety and stress
 Decreased in overall productivity
 Affects Concentration
 Spoils the Ambience
 Demotivated employees
 Wrong Information

16. Ethics
 Consideration of right and wrong, public and private good,
fair and foul, truth and deception

17. Power, Ethics & Politics(PEP)
 The use of influence by leaders to execute decisions and
understanding of underlying organisational dynamics while
maintaining high ethical standards

18. Organizational Ethics
 Organizational ethics is the ethics of an organization ,and it
is how an organization responds to an internal or external
stimulus
 Organizational ethics is interdependent with the
organizational culture,....Ethics are principle and values used
by an individual to govern his or her action and decisions.