The Appropriate Use of Power in the Workplace - Organizational Behavior

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The appropriate use of power in the workplace
Case Study
Before joining for his new assignment in his dream company named Oracle, Thomas kept
thinking regarding it the whole day after many years of hard work. Thomas has read many things
about Oracle and its management process. He has learnt that the company makes use of several
types of power with the employees in order to create a sense of leadership among its employees
and to motive them well along with complete designate authority and autonomy for exercising
their commands to achieve success. Apparently, there were several different companies that have
experienced a very bad scenario through making use of power within the organisation in an
unhealthy manner as it was resulting in the loss of their reputation in the market and among their
customers. Thomas wondered that is the use of power in the organisation a systematic use of
authority for delegating the work to the people after having a good understanding of the potential
and abilities of the every employee? He kept wondering is the use of power command the people
with an asset of guidelines which would give them a direction for performing the tasks that are
assigned to them for attaining the organisational objectives as according to the timelines. All
these things were making Thomas curious before the days of his joining in Oracle. Finally the
day has come and Thomas, on his very first day of the orientation was introduced to the senior
officials of the company, his team mates and co-workers with whom Thomas was supposed to
work along with the road map of the future growth of the company in context to its earlier
performances. Thomas was undoubtedly warmly welcome by each and everyone in his team and
was also later allocated with a challenging task as his very first assignment. Thomas was feeling
very proud that the team leader of his team was rated as the best professional expert in this
industry and that he is well aware of every small details of his expertise field by the
management. As the days were passing, Thomas got into the system of the organisation really
well and after spending five long months in the firm, Thomas started understanding the real
meaning of power to some extent. Although, all his works was done by him within the deadline
as well as the required parameters butt still, he was not able to understand his senior expectation
in a proper way and due to this fact even after 6 months of his work; Thomas was unable to
impress his senior with his presentations. This was making him difficult for confronting his
superior.
According to Taylor, power helps in creating a dynamic relationship of the company with
all its employees and aids in creating a relationship in between the leader and his followers that
is channelled by means of commitment, cooperation and communication (Taylor 2018). Thomas