Power And Leadership Assignment Report

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POWER AND LEADERSHIP
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Introduction
The aim of this paper is to discuss the role of power in effective leadership. All the two you have
similar meanings but can be distinctly analyzed in term of effect. Power is a process of
exercising leadership and leadership is only supported when the leader has power to execute. The
leadership always has involved attempt on the leader to affect their behavior or a follower in the
situation where as power is not equivalent with the influence on the other person’s behavior.
However in order to influence the subordinates the leader must have power because this is the
only aspect which creates difference between the level of the leader and their followers
(Sekarwinahyu et al., 2019). The leadership power can be related to position, Charisma,
information, expertise, relationship, punishment, empowerment, character, conduct and the
power of perks. In this paper the article named ‘role of power in effective leadership' will be
discussed and the personal experience as a leader executing power will be analyzed.
Discussion of the article
In the article, Role of Power in Effective Leadership', a survey upon the leaders has been
conducted where 94% of leaders have identified themselves having the ultimate power in the
decision making aspect in their organizations. There are factors of empowering the subordinates
by the leaders and very few of the leaders have understood that there is any instance of misuse of
power in the organization by themselves. in this survey mentioned in the article it has been found
that the power of information, the power of relationship and the power of expertise are three
major and frequently leveraged sources of power which make the leaders powerful to the
subordinates. According to the situation has changed. On the other hand the least leveraged
sources of power is the power of punishment where the leader executes his power to punish the
individuals for their failure to attend standard and Expectations of the company (Sekarwinahyu

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et al., 2019). With the change of time the perspective of leadership is changing the authoritative
leadership style is being replaced by the democratic style where the leaders believe upon the
development of relationship with the subordinates to leverage the management of the human
resource in the firm and developed a positive organizational culture.
This article has pointed out that the leaders of the following has suggested that the power of
relationship has metal leveraged buyout the identification of desired relationship and investing
on those relationships to repair damages this can be connected to the hierarchy need theory of
Maslow where the firm is required to understand and give importance to the needs of the
employees to motivate them and utilize their skills in a proper way. The concept of power
leadership therefore is dependent upon the responsibility of the leaders to execute power in its
absolute way. In any organizational setting the leaders at to execute power for achieving the
goals in every way (Hooper & Potter, 2019). Power allows the leaders to influence their
subordinates and achieve greater performance. This insurance that the growth of the organization
will be followed by the effective decision making.
Three points of power leadership
The three most important power of leader pointed out in this article are power of expertise,
power of information and power of relationships.
Power of expertise
This is well known that knowledge is the most important source of power where the expertise of
the leader can influence the followers to follow the right path guided by him. It is the experience
and skills possessed by the leader which convinces the subordinates that the leader has proper
information to make decisions and all the evidences to win an argument. With the power there