Abs 200 Week 3 Dq 2 Organizations And Power

Week 3 dq 2 Discuss the dynamics and concept of power in organizations, for example, are they gender-based, is power at odds with the provision of services, and does politics or cost enter in What is power and what does it have to do with the goals of the organization What are the pros and cons to the ways in which power is distributed within and between groups and organizations Please discuss in 250-300 words, and include one scholarly reference. Respond to a minimum of two of your classmates. Emersons Power Theory 1962 speaks in terms of person A and person B. The theory states that if person B, has something person A wants badly enough, then person B has power over person A. This is because person B has the desired commodity.(the thing that person A desires.) What Emerson tells us is that in any social relationship, if someone has something that another person desires and the probability is that that person cannot get that something outside of this relationship, then that is how power can be exercised. The key to the power dynamic is in the desired commodity. Just like carbohydratesThere is good power and there is,bad power.Power