Understanding the role of Power in Decision Making
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Annastiina Aamurusko
Márk Szász
Ricardo Duque
The Concept of Power
Most definitions include an element stating that Power is the ”Capability of one social actor to overcome resistance in achieving a desired objective”.
Power becomes defined as force; a force exerted from one Actor unto Another. The enforcement changes the behavior.
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The Concept of Authority
Legitimacy is defined and is accepted as a ries of activities that are accepted and expected. Therefor
黎明即起洒扫庭除e, power that is accepted and expected becomes Authority.
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A preference (be it willing or unwilling) to such procedures of power strengthen the concept of authority.
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...Organizational Politics
They become defined as activities through which power is ud to obtain a certain catalogue of desired results. Usually, in a tting in which politics are ud or en, disnsus is widespread.
叶义言Power is then the property of the system at rest, politics is the system en in its most dynamic tting.
Influence is the key to organizational politics.
The place of power in organisation theory literature
Why are power and politics neglected in the literature of organisation theory?
Reason #1. the issues associated with the
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definition and measurement of the
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Reason #2. the issues of competing
perspectives for analyzing organisational
choice process.
Power in organisation theory literature
Looking up the subject index of the major textbooks now current in the field, the subject of power is
either not mentioned at all, or
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if it is, only just an inconsiderable number of pages
are devoted to it.
Management writing rves a variety of functions which all have a strong component of ideology and values.
Topics such as power and politics are basically incompatible with values and ideology being developed.
