Power and Politics

By: Shloka Malhotra 94 Sarabjeet Singh Johar 67 Ishan Nardekar 106 Kashish Popli 118 Zoya Kazi 82 Karishma Kakar 75

Power is the capacity of a person, team, or organization to influence others. Power is the ability to make things happen in the way an individual wants, either by self or by the subordinates. The essence of power is control over the behavior of others.

Formal Power Coercive power Information Power Legitimate Power

Personal Power Rational Persuasion

Expert Power

Reward Power

Referent Power

Consequences of Power
Sources of Power Expert Power Commitment Referent Power Legitimate Power Reward Power Coercive Power Resistance Consequences of Power

Compliance

CONTINGENCIES OF POWER
Sources Of Power Power over others

Contingencies Of Power

Politics
INTRODUCTION TO POLITICS Politics refers to the ways people gain and use power in organization. Individual, departments and coalitions in an organization engage in political activity to enhance their power ESSENCE OF POLITICS Politics in general is characterized by Disagreements Diversity Scarcity Interest

Attacking/blaming others

Selectively distributing information

Using Experts

Managing impressions

Types of Organizational Politics

Controlling information channels

Controlling agenda

Game playing

Association with powerful executives

Increasing indispensability

Forming coalitions

Factors Contributing to Political Behavior

Political Behaviors Factors

Individual Factors

Organizational Factors

Desire to gain power To increase influence

Limited resources Uncertainty in decision-making Affecting lower level persons Performance evaluation

Case Study
Case studies on Power and politics. Mr Kabir was working in the Administration Department as an Administration officer. He was responsible for keeping account of all the Vehicles of the company apart from other arrangements including the guesthouse of the company. Mr Kabir has been working in the company for 6 years in the same grade without promotions. He was supposed to be very honest in his job. Once, the GM of the factory Mr Rakesh Gupta , requested for the company car during office time for his personal work. Mr Kabir refused it saying that it can not be given during the office work as the work would suffer. Mr Gupta became quite upset and asked his boss Mr Srivastava to give the car. Mr Srivastava ( Sr Manager Admn ) was too happy to oblige Mr Gupta as he wanted one of his relatives to be employed as Officer. Hence he fired Mr Kabir for his disobedience and threatened to transfer him to stores if he continued to show disrespect to Senior officers Kabir was also active member of staff union. He immediately went to the Union President and informed him about the misuse of the company car for private purpose by GM at the cost of the office work. It was decided that Kabir would send a note in writing to Mr Srivastava asking him to approve sending the car to the house of Mr Gupta . Mr Srivastava understood the repercussions and refused to sign the approval. He lent his own car to Mr Gupta . 1. What power was being used by Kabir ? 2. What power Mr Srivastava was using ? 3. What was the game Kabir played when Srivastava ordered the car ?

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Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim by McShane and Travaglione Organizational Behaviour by Stephen P Robbins Organizational Development by French & Bell Organizational Behaviour by K. Aswathappa