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1. POWER AND POLITICS

2. Southland Times, New Zealand
The Meaning of Power
Power is the capacity of a
person, team, or organization to
influence others.
– The potential to influence others
– People have power they don’t use
and may not know they possess
– Power requires one person’s
perception of dependence on
another person

3. Why does having power
matter?
With power you can…
 Intercede favorably on behalf of someone in trouble
 Get a desirable placement for a talented
subordinate
 Get approval for expenditures beyond the budget
 Get items on and off agendas
 Get fast access to decision makers
 Maintain regular, frequent contact with decision
makers
 Acquire early information about decisions and
policy shifts

4. The goal?
 Overcome feelings of powerlessness
 Convert power effectively into
interpersonal influences in ways that
avoid the abuse of power

5. To empower yourself
To facilitate the empowerment
of others

6. Sources of Power
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Legitimate Power
Reward Power
Coercive Power
Expert Power
Referent Power

7. Types of Individual Power: A
Summary
Position Power
• Legitimate power
• Reward power
• Coercive power
Individual Power
Personal Power
• Referent power
• Expert power

8. Legitimate Power
 One’s structural position
 The power a person receives as a result of
his or her position in the formal
hierarchy of an organization

9. Reward and Coercive Power
 Power that achieves compliance based on
the ability to distribute rewards that
others view as valuable
 Coercive Power: the opposite of reward
power: the power that is based on fear of
negative results.

10. Expert Power
 Influence is based on special skills or
knowledge

11. Referent Power
 Influence is based on possession by an
individual of desirable resources or
personal traits
 The desire to please…

12. Politics
It is the art and science of government, as affairs of
state
But: the state is rooted in society
the state maintains a particular social order
interactions between state and society are at
the core of politics
So the politics it has to be examined as part of the
entire fabric of social relations cooperation and
conflicts between individuals group, classes

13. Modes of politics
 Cooperation and conflict

14. Politics as cooperation ,or integration as
the process of rule based an order and
justice
Politics is driven by the considerations of
the common good

15. Politics as conflict as struggle for power
Politics is driven by selfish interests of individuals
groups, businesses, states