beginning 29 April 2013 Topic 7: Power and Conflicts Textbook question: Which power bases lie with the individual? Which are derived from the organisation? (max. 200 words) Power bases that lie with the individual include expert power‚ which is the power gained because of the ability of someone with expert knowledge in a field. Another one is the referent power‚ which is the power that gained due to individual possessing characteristics desirable to others. Power bases that are derived from the
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Abstract Number 1 : Organizations as political systems: the managerial bias in Critical Perspective A number of approaches are offered for organizational science to solve the problem regarding organizational gap between theory and practice. The rational model can be considered as a dominant model on organizational science among the others with the purpose of defining organization as instruments for attaining goals instead of dealing with problems .Furthermore‚ objectives are defined
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TOPIC 2: Perception and its impact on communication‚ power and politics in organizations Introduction Organizations establishment function to fulfill needs of the people. In today’s competitive and yet challenging world‚ the organizations have to be growth-oriented. Organizations are composed of number of individuals working independently or in teams‚ and number of such teams makes a department and number of such departments makes an organization. It is a formal structure and all departments have
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Illusion of Control: Theoretical Perspective on Power-Dependence Relationships Abstract One of the key contentions displayed in this paper is the means by which the initiative writing has inadequately tended to power. It has verifiably regarded power just as it were for all time inserted inside the setting of authoritative chain of importance as opposed to being a normal for the people in the social relationship. An examination of authority and force in a rotational administration outline is furnished
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How did the Gang of Four gain power in China? The Gang of Four came into power in when Wu Han’s play‚ Hai Rui Dismissed from Office‚ was banned because of the investigation started by Jiang. The investigation resulted in a public condemnation of the play‚ resulting in radical uprisings for the arts establishing the Cultural Revolution. Thereby allowing the Gang of Four to advance to high positions in the government and the CCP‚ giving them control. Who were the Gang of Four? Jiang Qing‚ Wang Hongwen
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Non-governmental organization (applying sociological perspectives associated with social imagination) It is not the case that the all of the non-governmental organization has concerned or tackled in every social issue‚ but it should be supposed that social issues must be influenced by some forces that react by specific social units. This paper is going to investigate what a non-governmental organization is suppose to function or how is its status and influent the entire society throughout analyze
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SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Sociology is known to be a very debatable subject without an agreeable consensus. Different perspectives exist and each one tries to explain the society in a different way. A perspective can be defined as a set of principles‚ an approach or a school of thought which helps to understand and explain social life. A perspective helps us to understand how the society is organised‚ how social life is arranged and how it functions. Sociological perspectives can be categorised
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Organization Studies http://oss.sagepub.com/ Social Remembering and Organizational Memory Michael Rowlinson‚ Charles Booth‚ Peter Clark‚ Agnes Delahaye and Stephen Procter Organization Studies 2010 31: 69 originally published online 12 November 2009 DOI: 10.1177/0170840609347056 The online version of this article can be found at: http://oss.sagepub.com/content/31/1/69 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: European Group for Organizational Studies Additional
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How do the four contingency variables influence organizations’ structure? During 1970s‚ the United States of America was suffering unprecedented social‚ economic and political instability‚ with the great impact posed on western society by the crisis of oil‚ and the changing environment all the industries were facing. Previous management theories‚ such as scientific management theory‚ science of behaviour management theory and so on‚ only focused on how to improve enterprises’ internal organizational
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POWER AND ITS POWERS: The Supremacy of Power Frank Chodorov‚ an American writer and libertarian once said “The State acquires power and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.” When I was in my high school‚ I always dreamed for Utopia‚ a perfect state wherein there is no poverty and starvation. Power is delegated in every people and there’s equality‚ justice and freedom. Utopia sometime refers for World peace‚ this may sounds
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