Power and Politics

MD. Monirul Islam (1130782030)

Rezaul Kabir (1130553030)

Anwar Abedin Piash (1210542030)

Introduction

Power and politics is regarded as natural factors affecting various

organizational practices. Through the investigation of HRD learner’s

relationship with supervisors who hold power and the power derived from

their own role status within the organization signal their capacity to

transfer what they have trained.

Power

• Power is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to get what you want

Politics

• The process of gaining and using power”

Bases of Power

Formal

Coercive Power

Reward Power

Legitimate Power

Personal

Expert Power

Referent Power

Power Tactics

LegitimacyRational

PersuasionInspirational

Appeal

consolationPersonal Appeal

Ingratiation

Exchange

Effect of power

Positive

• The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace

-Mahatma Gandhi

Negative

• "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.“

- Sir John Dalberg

Conclusion

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's

character, give him power”

-Abraham Lincoln