These Slides are Consists of power political behavior in organization

1. The ability or capacity to do something or act in a
particular way.
The ability of one person to get another person to
do something that he or she would not normally
do.

2. TYPES OF POWER
POLITICAL POWER
control of, or influence on, the state, ability to
make, or influence, political decisions
ECONOMIC POWER
control of economic assets
MILITARY POWER
ability to wage war - or to compel others
through intimidation or deterrence
These forms of power interact in many ways.

3. Coercive
Power
Reward Power
Referent Power
Expert Power

4. 5 principal forms of power
1. FORCE – ability to detain and harm people and damage or confiscate
their property to compel them to obey your orders
2. PERSUASION – ability to convince people to do what they otherwise
would not have done by invoking their own interests and common
sense
3. AUTHORITY – legitimate (just and lawful) power to control and direct
people’s activities
4. COERCION – controlling people by means of threatening use of force
5. MANIPULATION – controlling people without threats, by persuading
them about the legitimacy of the existing power relationships, or by
offering them benefits

5.  Why Power and Politics?
◦ To direct and control behavior of organizational
members to achieve organizational goals

6. Politics in its broadest sense is the
activity through which people make
preserve and amend the general rules
under which they live

7.  Pyramid Shaped Organizational Structure:
 This structure concentrates power at the top
to the extent that each successive layer on
the organizational chart has less power than
the layer above. At the bottom of the
organization, workers have virtually no
power. Therefore, the fewer the layers the
more intense the competition for power.

8.  Subjective Standards of Performance:
Subjectively at times, people resent to
organizational politics because they do not
believe the organization has an objective way
of evaluating their performance and
suitability for promotion. In the absence of
objectivity on the part of management, then,
they will resort to favoritism.