ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOUR

PRESENTATION

ON

POWER

POLITICS

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often but by

striking true.”

-Honore de Balzac

POWER DEFINEDIT IS A CAPACITY THAT ‘A’ HAS TO INFLUENCE THE BEHAVIOUR OF ‘B’,SO THAT ‘B’ ACTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ‘A’s WISHES

POWER HAS TWO ASPECTS

POTENTIAL POWER

DEPENDENCY RELATIONSHIP

COERCIVE POWER REWARD POWER LEGITIMATE POWER

POWER: IT’S BASESTHERE ARE PRIMARILY 2 BASIC GROUPINGS OF POWER AND POWER CAN BE

SEGREGATED AS FORMAL AND PERSONALFORMAL POWER : FORMAL POWER IS BASED ON AN INDIVIDUAL’S POSITION IN AN ORGANIZATION.THERE ARE 3 PROMINENT TYPES

1.COERCIVE POWER : example – Adolf Hitler is known for his cunning dictatorship. It was his coercive power traits that made him dominant over his counterparts.

2.REWARD POWER : example - New CEO of YAHOO, Marisa Mayers.She left Google and joined Yahoo just because of POWER of REWARD which included both Financial and Nonfinancial emoluments

3.LEGITIMATE POWER : example - Umpire on a cricket field has a legitimate power to make players abide by the rules of the game and carry on the proceeding smoothly..

PERSONAL POWERIT IS NOT MANDATORY TO OCCUPY A FORMAL POSITION IN AN ORGANIZATION TO HAVE POWER.PERSONAL POWER CAN BE EXPLAINED AS INDIVIDUAL’S UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS.THERE ARE 2 PREVAILING PERSONAL POWER TYPES

1. EXPERT POWER: example – Jaya Ma’am is an expert faculty in HR, hence she wield Expert power because of expertise ma’am possess.

2. REFRENT POWER : example – Justin Timberlake’s association with MC D Beyoncé Knowles association with Tommy Hilfiger,Sachin Tendulkar’s association with Pepsi are all examples of referent power as they influence people to act accordingly .

MOVING FORCE OF POWER : DEPENDENCY

THE GENERAL POSTULATE: GREATER THE B’S DEPENDENCY ON A,GREATER THE POWER A HAS OVER B

DEPENDENCY IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF SUPPLY,ABUNDANCE OF ONE THING OBVIOUSLY MAKES IT COMMON ,HENCE THERE IS NO DEPENDENCY HENCE NO POWER AS THEY ALL ARE INTERTWINED

AS THE OLD SAYING GOES …

IN THE LAND OF BLIND,ONE-EYED MAN IS THE KINGIn order to force the dependency power one needs to possess something uncommon.

SCARCITY

NON SUBSTUTABILITY

IMPORTANCE

DEPENDENCY CREATION 3 VITAL INGREDIENTS

1. IMPORTANCE2. SCARCITY3. NON SUBSTITUTABILITY

IMPORTANCEYOUR KINS SEEKING YOUR HELP IN THEIR EXAMS ADDS TO YOUR POWER OVER THEM AS THEY ARE DEPENDENT OVER YOU .

SCARCITYPORCHE DO NOT SELL THEIR CARS TO EVERYBODY,THE VERY OWN DEARTH CREATION BY PORSCHE ADDS TO THEIR POWER IN CAR MANUFACTURING ARENA.

NON SUBSTITUTABILITYDURING THE SWINE FLUE EPIDEMIC,THERE WAS ONLY ONE DRUG AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET MANUFACTURED BY A US FIRM ,THERE WAS NO OTHER CLOSE SUBSTITUTE AVAILABLE HENCEFORTH THAT FIRM HAD POWER TO SET PRICES AS PER THEIR WILL.

POWER TACTICSTHE WAYS IN WHICH INDIVIDUALS TRANSLATE POWERBASES INTO SPECIFIC ACTIONS

THERE ARE 9 PROMINENT INFLUENCE TACTICS

INSPIRATIONALAPPEALS

LEGITIMACY RATIONALPERSUASION

CONSULTATION

PRESSUREINGRATIATION COALITIONS

EXCHANGEPERSONALAPPEALS

SEXUAL HARASEMENTIS ANY UNWANTED ACTIVITY OF A SEXUAL NATURE THAT AFFECTS AN INDIVIDUAL’S EMPLOYMENT AND CREATES A HOSTILE WORK ENVIORNMENT.

NOTED EXAMPLES ARE PHILIP MORRIS,DIAL,UPS WHERE IN THE JURY SLAPPED PENALTY OF $2 MILLION ,$10 MILLION,$80 MILLION FOR CREATING HOSTILE WORKING ENVIORNMENT.THE MORE SUBTLE FORMS OF SEXUAL HARASSEMENT ARE – UNWANTED LOOKS,COMMENTS,OFF COLOR JOKES,SEXUAL ARTIFACTS,MISREPRESENTATION.

SEXUAL HARASEMENT IS MORE LIKELY TO OCCUR WHEN THERE ARE LARGE POWER DIFFRENTIALS.IT IS TWO WAY ,MEN HAASSING WOMEN,WOMEN HARASSING MEN

EXAMPLE : (M – F)STRAUSS KAHN CEO OF IMF ,SEXUALLY HARASSED A MAID IN A NEW YORK HOTEL AND HE WAS STRIPPED FROM HIS POST OF HEAD OF IMF,WHICH HE DID ONLY BECAUSE THERE WAS HUGE POWER DIFFERENTIAL .

EXAMPLE : (F – M) IN THE MOVIE AITRAAZ,IT WAS SHOWN HOW A FEMALE AT HIGH LEVEL ,EXPLOITS HER SUBORDINATE .THE CUSHION THAT LADY ENJOYED WAS OF ENJOYING THE MSXIMUM POWER IN THE ORGANIZATION.

LYRICAL POWER

The power of truth is in the belief ;The power of love in the heart .The power of faith is felt in the mind ;With every member of your being a part .

Yet the power of change is hard to adjust ;Because temptation is so hopelessly strong .While the power of right is substantially hard ;You must overcome the power of wrong .

But the power in you is much greater than all ;In you his power is born .So when the unfairness of life takes your power away ;Remember to whom the power belongs.

: DENNIS TAYLOR