Power and Dependency

Power and Dependency

Introduction

According to the Wrong (1979), power enable people to make things occur according to their own way. In an organization, every staff member enjoys power within its defined limitations. The upper layer of management has a higher level of power and can hire, fire, reward or punish the lower layer of workers. On the contrary, worker has a low level of power and cannot disobey the orders of their bosses. In between them, there is the third level of power which individuals are enjoying because of their unparallel skills. These three types of powers have been divided into five categories, which are common in all kinds of businesses. In each category of power, there is a leader who tactically applies his or her power on other workers, and sometimes he or she remain confined and may not take action against workers. This is because of workers' high skills which have a strong demand in the company. In the given circumstances, five categories of power have applied it has been shown that there is a strong relationship between the power and dependency.

Five Bases of Power

To begin the coercive power is the first form of power in which managers threat the employees not in literal terms but by using the firing of the employees as the consequence if the employee or the employees will not perform according to the requirements of the company or the performance of the employees is not up to the mark (Frost & Moussavi 2011). This power is used to save the business and company from loss due to the below the mark performance of the underperforming employees. Sometimes using this power is essential because a manager lacks the options to deal with such employees. The demonstration of this power can be exemplified in a sense that if employee 1 is not staying back then the manager may warn him with the threat of firing him on disobeying his orders. Another example of this might be the salary deduction and bonus prevention for employee 1 if he is not staying back for long hours to gain the bonus. Second is reward power; it allows the manager to reward the workers of the company when their performance is satisfactory. In the given scenario, employee 1 earns a bonus because his performance is extra ordinary. He sits long hours in the company and authorities recognize that his ...