power is needed to reach objectives in all organizations and power affects performance like power politics is important to organizational performance people who use organizational politics tend to use different behavior than those who do not and people using proper etiquette behave differently than those who don't an unethical etiquette hurts human relations and performance all in all power and political behavior can either be ethical or unethical ethical power and politics includes behavior that benefits both the individual and the organization there are two sources of power position power and personal power position power is derived from top-level management
and delegated down the chain of command personal power is derived from the person everybody has personal power to varying degrees the use of course of power involves threats and/or punishment to influence compliance out of fear that non-compliance will lead to negative consequences people do as requested other examples of course of power include verbal abuse humiliation and ostracism coercive power is appropriate to use in maintaining discipline when enforcing rules when employee is not willing to do as the manager requests the manager may use coercive power to gain compliance however it's advisable to keep the use of
Korus of power to a minimum because it hurts human relations and ultimately productivity connection power is based on the user's relationship with influential people it relies on the use of contacts and friends who can influence the person you're dealing with the right connections can give you the perception of having power and they can give you actual power if people know you are friendly with people in power they're more apt to do as you request legitimate power is based on the user's position power which is given by the organization employees tend to feel that they ought
to do what a supervisor says within the scope of the job the use of a legitimate power is appropriate when asking people to do something that's within the scope of their jobs most a day-to-day interactions are based on legitimate power referent powers based on the user's personal power a person using reference power relies on personality and the relationship to gain compliance for example say will you please do it for me not this is an order information power is based on the user's information being desired by others managers rely on other person's needs for information they
possess expert power is based on the user's skill and knowledge being an expert makes other people dependent on you the fewer people who possess the skill or knowledge the more power the individual who has it will have people often respect an expert expert power is essential to people who have to work with other folks from two other departments or organizations your power is your ability to influence others to do something they wouldn't otherwise do so along with power sources and bases you need to have persuasion skills persuasion takes careful preparation and proper presentation of arguments
and supporting evidence inappropriate and compelling way like power politics often has a negative connotation due to people who abuse political power however politics is critical in our career success in our economy money is the medium of exchange in an organization politics is that medium managers cannot meet their objectives without the help of other people and departments over which they have no authority or positional power so you need to work within the system to climb the corporate ladder politics to the process of gauging in using power as you can see from the definition power and politics
goes hand in hand political behavior is used to develop relationships that are necessary to get the job done three primary political behaviors commonly used an organ our networking reciprocity and coalition-building networking is the process of developing relationship alliances with key people for the purpose of politicking reciprocity involves creating obligations and debts developing alliances and using them to accomplish your objectives many organizational decisions that our support is supposed to be made during a meeting or vote are actually decided through coalition building then finally etiquette when using power politics our behavior should be ethical and use proper
business etiquette business etiquette often refer to as manners is the code of behavior expected in works situations etiquette skills can be improved as young people today are taking etiquette classes if you haven't been concerned with business etiquette start now because etiquette is important
