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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