The will to power

THE WILL TO POWER

JESANT ESCOBERMAM- ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION

“..WITH GREAT POWER, COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY..”

 -is the ability to influence the behavior of people.-the ability to act or produce an effect.-can be seen as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as endemic to humans as social beings.

-MERRIAM WEBSTER-WIKIPEDIA.COM

POWER

POWER MAY BE HELD THROUGH:

DELEGATED AUTHORITY 

Social Class 

PERSONAL OR GROUP CHARISMA Ascribed power

EXPERTISE 

Persuasion

KNOWLEDGE Celebrity

FORCE (LAW)

Moral Persuasion

OPERATION OF GROUP DYNAMICS

Social Influence of Tradition

RESOURCE CURRENCY

Relationships

(J.K.GALBRAITH, AN ANATOMY OF POWER)

TYPES OF POWER

Condign

CompensatoryConditioned

Personality

Property

Organizational

CATEGORIZATION OF POWER

1.AG G R ES S IVE (forceful)

2. Manipulative

(persuasion)

Prof. Erica Grier, Psych.,Harvard University

FIVE BASES OF POWER

1. Legitimate power2. Referent power3. Expert power4. Reward power5. Coercive power

LEGITIMATE POWER

"Positional power", it is the power of an individual because of the relative position and duties of the holder of the position within an organization.

REFERENT POWER

 power or ability of individuals to attract others and build loyalty.

It's based on the charisma and interpersonal skills of the power holder.

EXPERT POWER

 is an individual's power deriving from the skills or expertise of the person and the organization's needs for those skills and expertise.

REWARD POWER

 it refers to the degree to which the individual can give others a reward of some kind such as benefits, time off, desired gifts, promotions or increases in pay or responsibility.

COERCIVE POWER

 is the application of negative influences.

It includes the ability to demote or to withhold other rewards.

WHY DO PEOPLE WANT POWER???

NIETZSCHE’S THEORY

Nietzsche believed that the will to power is the main driving force in

humans:

..achievement, ambition, the striving to reach the highest

possible position in life, are all manifestations of the will to power.

-MACHIAVELLI

“It is much safer to be feared than loved..,”

- He tend to believe that attaining

power requires force, deception, manipulation, and coercion.

- a new science of power has revealed that power is wielded most effectively when it’s used responsibly by people who are attuned to, and engaged with the needs and interests of others.

- -research suggests that empathy and social intelligence are vastly more important to acquiring and exercising power than are force, deception, or terror.

- D. KELTNER

SELF ACTUALIZATION

ESTEEM

LOVE/BELONGING

SAFETY

PHYSIOLOGICAL

MASLOWS HEIRARCHY OF NEEDS

HTTP://WWW.SIMPLYPSYCHOLOGY.ORG/MASLOW.HTML#STHASH.4HHPCE8F.DPUF

Self ActualizationMaslow stated that human motivation is

based on people seeking fulfilment and change through personal growth. He described self-actualized people as those who were fulfilled and doing all they were capable of.

The growth of self-actualization refers to the need for personal growth that is present throughout a person’s life. For Maslow, a person is always “becoming” and never remains static in these terms. In self-actualization a person comes to find a meaning to life that is important to them.

“Want of power is not necessarily evil, but

natural; of course we want to rule our own lives. It is a common necessity that all humans share - this is not

an evil as long as we do not misuse the power we gain”.

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