This document discusses different types of power and their relevance in society. It defines power as the ability to control or influence people or things. There are five main types of power: reward power, coercive power, legitimate power, expert power, and referent power. Each type is explained in one or two sentences. For example, reward power is an individual's ability to influence others through rewarding desirable behavior, while coercive power uses punishment to influence behavior. The document also argues that power, whether seen narrowly or broadly, impacts people's lives every day through influencing things like education opportunities.

1. Power to Empower:
Individuals & Teams
Made by: Gourav Updhayay

2. Meaning
Power is the
• the ability or right to control people or things
• political control of a country or area
• a person or organization that has a lot of control and
influence over other people or organizations

3. Types of Power
• Reward Power
• Coercive Power
• Legitimate Power
• Expert Power
• Referent Power

4. Types of Power
Reward Power:
Reward Power is an individual's ability to influence others'
behaviour by rewarding their desirable behaviour.
Employees comply with requests and directives because
of the authority of managers to grant rewards in the
form of praise, promotions, salary increase, bonuses, and
time-off. Reward power can lead to better performance,
but only as long as the employee sees a clear and strong
link between performance and rewards.

5. Coercive Power
Coercive Power:
It is an individual's ability to influence others' behaviour
by means of punishment for undesirable behaviour. For
example, subordinates may comply because they expect
to be punished for failure to respond favorably to
managerial directives. Punishment may be major or
minor, depending on the nature of omission or
commission.

6. Legitimate Power
Legitimate Power:
It is most often refers to a manager's ability to influence
subordinates' behaviour because of the manager' s
position in the organisational hierarchy. Subordinates
may respond to such influence because they
acknowledge the manager's legitimate right to prescribe
certain behaviours. Legitimate power is an important
organisational concept.

7. Expert Power
Expert Power:
It is an individual's ability to influence others' behaviour
because of recognised skills, talents, or specialised
knowledge. To the extent that managers can
demonstrate competence in analysing, evaluating,
controlling, and implementing the tasks of
subordinates, they will acquire expert power.

8. Referent Power
Referent Power:
It is an individual ' s ability to influence others' behaviour as
a result of being liked or admired. For instance,
subordinates' identification with a manager often forms the
basis for referent power.
This identification may include the desire of the
subordinates to emulate the manager. Referent power is
usually associated with the individuals who possess admired
personality characteristics, charisma, or a good reputation.

9. Relevance of power in society
If you define power the way John Gaventa does, power
has a huge impact on our lives. If you look at it in that
way, the elites of society use their power every day to
get us to buy into the ideologies that justify their
power. They use this face of power, then, to trick us so
that we do not even realize that power is being exerted
on us.

10. If we see power in a more limited way, it is still with us every
day. Weber talks about power (among other ways) as the elite's
ability to manipulate things so that they have the best life
chances. We can see that every day in our own lives. If we are
of middle to upper-middle class status, we know that our kids
go to better schools than poor people's kids.
At the same time, we know that their schools are not as good as
the schools of the truly wealthy. This, too, is an example of
power playing a role in our daily lives.

11. Thank you