Organizational Power and Policies

Power: Power is the ability to make thing happen in the way you want.

Sources of power in organization:

Consequences of power:

Organizational Politics: It involves those activities by an organization to acquire, develop, and use power and resources to obtain preferred outcome. 

Factors influence political behavior:

Organizational governance and its implications:

1. The pattern of authority, influence and acceptable managerial behavior is established at the top of the organization.
2. It is significantly determined by the effective control of key resources by members.
3. Behavior must produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
4. Policies must respect the rights of all the parties.