Week 7:Comments to four Power and Influence Carlissa Daft defines influence as the effect a person’s actions have on the attitude, values, beliefs or actions of others (p.369). There is an expression that says first impressions last a lifetime.  When you meet someone for the very first time your actions, behavior, body language, and posture will automatically “influence” them. Even the way you speak and your tone of voice can influence a person’s perception of you. This will give them a negative or positive impression of you. In the video Amy Cuddy talked about power and power poses that can help people on an individual basis. She mentioned how these power poses can help one feel empowered and if you feel empowered this can help you get that job or promotion. This will help the way you act and the way you perceive things. Other traits that go along with power are confidence, aggressiveness, courage, charisma, knowledge, and dominance.  Sometimes, well a lot of times people are intimidated by power. I thought it was interesting when she mentioned how the feeling of power can affect our hormones, high testosterone and low cortisol. One thing that stood out for me in this video is “making yourself small”. I am always conscience of my posture but I never really thought about the everyday little things that I may do that may make myself seem small so I have to keep an eye out. I can’t say I have a sparkling personality and perform gestures that may make me seem small ( I enjoyed Amy’s presentation. Wonder Woman took me way back. Come to think of it most of the superheroes pose that way. Chelsey Power can influence others significantly whether it is through body language, as discussed in the video or verbal communication. Power determines aspects within an organization like who gets promoted and who does not get promoted. Power can influence people to do what they want, when they want establishing a sort of dependency. If someone looks at a leader within an organization as having power, people within the organization are more likely to develop a dependency on this person whether it be for information, resources, cooperation and more. As a leader to establish a sense of power within an organization could also help to encourage employees to perform work at the best of their ability. If you know the leader of an organization can supply you with what you need to get the job done, as am employee, you should work to use that to your advantage. In the video, Cuddy explains the significance of body language and how you present your body language as a leader. If you cross your arms, hunch your shoulders, or have close-closed contact with your body, that will affect how employees look at you and the power that you have over them. As a leader, if you are always crossing your arms  and not presenting your body language in an assertive manner with closed postures, employees may not take you as serious and cause them to not take the job as serious, affecting .

1. Week 7:Comments to four
Power and Influence
Carlissa
Daft defines influence as the effect a person’s actions have on
the attitude, values, beliefs or actions of others (p.369).
There is an expression that says first impressions last a lifetime.
When you meet someone for the very first time your actions,
behavior, body language, and posture will automatically
“influence” them. Even the way you speak and your tone of
voice can influence a person’s perception of you. This will give
them a negative or positive impression of you.
In the video Amy Cuddy talked about power and power poses
that can help people on an individual basis. She mentioned how
these power poses can help one feel empowered and if you feel
empowered this can help you get that job or promotion. This
will help the way you act and the way you perceive things.
Other traits that go along with power are confidence,
aggressiveness, courage, charisma, knowledge, and dominance.
Sometimes, well a lot of times people are intimidated by power.
I thought it was interesting when she mentioned how the feeling
of power can affect our hormones, high testosterone and low
cortisol.
One thing that stood out for me in this video is “making
yourself small”. I am always conscience of my posture but I
never really thought about the everyday little things that I may
do that may make myself seem small so I have to keep an eye
out. I can’t say I have a sparkling personality and perform
gestures that may make me seem small (
I enjoyed Amy’s presentation. Wonder Woman took me way
back. Come to think of it most of the superheroes pose that way.
Chelsey

2. Power can influence others significantly whether it is through
body language, as discussed in the video or verbal
communication. Power determines aspects within an
organization like who gets promoted and who does not get
promoted. Power can influence people to do what they want,
when they want establishing a sort of dependency. If someone
looks at a leader within an organization as having power, people
within the organization are more likely to develop a dependency
on this person whether it be for information, resources,
cooperation and more. As a leader to establish a sense of power
within an organization could also help to encourage employees
to perform work at the best of their ability. If you know the
leader of an organization can supply you with what you need to
get the job done, as am employee, you should work to use that
to your advantage. In the video, Cuddy explains the significance
of body language and how you present your body language as a
leader. If you cross your arms, hunch your shoulders, or have
close-closed contact with your body, that will affect how
employees look at you and the power that you have over them.
As a leader, if you are always crossing your arms and not
presenting your body language in an assertive manner with
closed postures, employees may not take you as serious and
cause them to not take the job as serious, affecting motivation.
Also, if you are not putting a smile on, this could influence how
your employees feel. Cuddy says that a study has shown that
smiling makes other people happy.
To have power within an organization, also give the leader
control over resources such as job positions, rewards, support or
materials. Knowing that leaders have this power, this is another
reason that should motivate and encourage the employee to
perform the job at an acceptable standard. This should motivate
employees because if they do not, they could sacrifice getting a
promotion in a new position or receiving a pay raise or bonus.
These resources are ones that are considered important to the
individual such as pay or a job promotion.

3. The power to release certain information also has an effect on
how the power of an individual can influence others. Choosing
to selectively share private information, needed by leaders with
employees, gives them the employees a sense of power as well.
Leaders usually have more access to information that lower
employees do not and by choosing to share this information can
shape the actions and attitudes of employees.
Leadership Diversity
Nicola
Diversity means a mix of people from different racial, religious
culture, social, economic background gay and straight too. Its
said to be good, it reflects the reality of the population of the
country . I don't see any advantage, people tend to congregate
with others like them thats just the way it is. Diversity is what
makes up the world we live in, Hot & cold, black & white,
pleasure & pain, rich & poor, tall & short. The blance requires
other options in order to provide a valid interpretation.
Diversity isn't just limited to Racial issues in fact without
diversity racism couldn't exist. Our individual opinions on the
importance of diversity are irrelevant to its existance. If you
are a business man doing business in another country it is very
important in order to be successful. you have to understand their
business practices as well as their culture at large. Like the
chinese importance of saving face. You should also understand
their religious practies to a certain degree. Bowing in Japan as
a sign of respect as opposed to hand shaking. Don't point with
your finger at people in the Philippines. All these type of
customs and more are very important both here and in the
country you are visiting even if only as a tourist. We have
enough ugly American images to overcome. The book speak of
workforce diversity:
Workforce diversity increases creativity within a company
because heterogeneous groups are cross-fertilizing one another

4. within the organization. Employees from different backgrounds
bring in a variety of solutions on how to achieve a common
goal. As more diverse ideas are suggested, the chances of
finding a workable answer are improved. In atmospheres when
brainstorming is necessary, more ideas are formed because team
members are culturally diverse. For example, employees from
China working in American companies may approach a problem
totally differently than do American workers. Some companies
have successfully created innovative processes by taking ideas
from several employees.
The "diversity" that is so highly lauded is often achieved at the
price of excellence. People are not accepted or rejected based
on merit, but on how they add to the diversity of the group. One
possible benefit is that the different view points of a diverse
group of people help generate ideas and solve problems.
Culturally, the push for diversity is actually having a narrowing
effect. Many cultural traditions are being lost, and society is
homogenizing into a mix of all cultures. The importance of
diversity lies in acceptance of the everybody is different from
everybody else and as unique individuals we are all of equal
importance with equal right to peacefully exist. Failure to
accept diversity leads to a mistaken belief in one person's
superiority over another based on gender,ethnicty, sexuality,
income, religion, etc. This tensions and can lead to horrors such
as ethnic-cleansing and other oppressive actions. The more
diverse gene-pool a species has, the greater chance it has of
survival in case of disease or other potentially fatal situations.
Elika
Diversity is the differences in people that can include gender,
ethnicity, culture, education, skills, age pay levels, or
personality. Diversity is important and valuable to an
organization because it can improve the competitive advantage
by combining different skills together. Diversity allows
different people with different backgrounds work together as a

5. team, having a commitment to be successful. For example, a
company can build a diverse customer base by having a diverse
group of people working for them. "Culture plays an important
role in determining goods, entertainment, social services, and
household products that people use, so organizations are
recruiting minority employees to understand how diverse
people live" (Daft p.334)