The document discusses power, politics, and conflict in organizations. It defines power as A's ability to influence B's behavior to act in accordance with A's wishes. Dependency is key, as the greater B's dependence on A, the more power A has. Personal sources of power like expert and referent power tend to be more effective than formal powers like coercive or reward power. Dependence can be created through things like control over resources. Politics in organizations refers to using influence and bargaining rather than rational processes to make decisions and define goals.

1. POWER, POLITICS &
CONFLICT
Siti Shoimah NIM: 237030100111018
Program Doktor Ilmu Administrasi
Universitas Brawijaya

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Contrast leadership and power
• Explain the three bases of formal power and the two bases of
personal power.
• Explain the role of dependence in power relationships.
• Identify influence tactics and their contingencies.
• Identify the causes and consequences of abuse of power.
• Describe how politics work in organizations.
• Identify the causes, consequences, and ethics of political behavior.

3. A Definition of Power
Power
• The capacity that A has to influencethe behavior of B so that B acts in
accordance with A’s wishes
• Exist as a potential or fully actualized influence over a dependent
relationship.
Dependency
• B’s relationship to A possesses something that B requires
• The greater B’s dependence, the more power A has

4. Contrasting Leadership and Power

5. BASES OF POWER

6. Which Bases Of Power Are Most
Effective?
• Of the three bases of formal power (coercive, reward, legitimate) and two bases
of personal power (expert, referent) , which is most important to have ?
• Research suggest pretty clearly that Personal sources of Power are most
effective.
• Both expert and referent power are positively related to employee satisfaction
with supervision, their organizational commitment and their performance.
• Whereas reward and legitimate power seem to be unrelated to these
outcomes. One source of Formal Power – coercive power actually can be very
negative as in that it is negatively related to employee satisfaction and
commitment.

7. What Create Dependence?
• Of the three bases of formal power (coercive, reward, legitimate) and two bases
of personal power (expert, referent) , which is most important to have ?
• Research suggest pretty clearly that Personal sources of Power are most
effective.
• Both expert and referent power are positively related to employee satisfaction
with supervision, their organizational commitment and their performance.
• Whereas reward and legitimate power seem to be unrelated to these
outcomes. One source of Formal Power – coercive power actually can be very
negative as in that it is negatively related to employee satisfaction and
commitment.

8. POLITICS
• Politics refer to the structure and process of the use of authority to affect the
definition of goals, directions and other major parameters of the organization.
Decisions are not made in a rational or formal way but rather through
compromise, accommodation and bargaining. M. L. Tushman
• Political behavior Activities that are not required as part of a person’s formal role
in the organization but that influence, or attempt to influence, the distribution of
advantages and disadvantages within the organization.