French and Raven described the sources of power that people have as ‘social power bases’.
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Program 6: Managing within Organizations
Course 1: The Nature of Organizations
Section 3: Power in Organizations
Other videos in this section include:
🎬 What is Power? https://youtu.be/mIlnEkzIiHs
🎬 Amitai Etzioni: How Organizations Secure Compliance https://youtu.be/4mSdeda8elk
🎬 Robin Fincham: Three Levels of Organizational Power https://youtu.be/Qcd_UcHGCe8
🎬 The Power of Governance https://youtu.be/QI4pGksO4Ns
🎬 Empowerment: The Organization Giving up its Power https://youtu.be/B4-_u51mffk
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John French and Bertram Raven described the sources of power that people have, listing five categories that they called ‘social power bases’.
The word ‘social’ implies that power exists because of the relationship between the holder and the person who is dependent on the holder. This is contrary to other views that power is a part of the organization (as Etzioni implied - https://youtu.be/4mSdeda8elk ) or of individuals themselves.
These are derived from the resources that the holder has at their disposal.
1. Legitimate Power – seniority of position
2. Reward Power – ability to offer inducements
3. Coercive Power – ability to impose sanctions
4. Expert Power – skills and expertise
5. Referent Power – personal characteristics; charisma
Subsequently, they added a further two.
6. Information Power – the knowledge you can access
7. Connection Power – the people you can access
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1. What power bases do you hold within different organizations (work or social) that you are a part of? (2 MC CPD Points)
2. Survey the people you work with. What social power bases do they hold? (2 MC CPD Points)
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