Wednesday, November 26, 2008

LEADERSHIP1

Leadership and power concepts are intertwined. Leaders use power as a means of attaining group goals. In other words, leaders achieve goals and the power is a facilitator of goal achievement. Since, every organization has goals to purpose ,acquisition and distribution of power is a natural process in it . Power determines the goals , the organization seeks and how the resources in the organisation’s members performance and satisfaction as well organizational effectiveness.
They can be better understood by distinguishing power from authority and influence.
Definitions of power are intertwined with the concepts of authority and influence. Chester Barnard defined power as informal authority Many modern organizational sociologists define authority as legitimate power to have better understanding of power , We bring up clearly the distinctions between power and authority and power and influence.

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