Power and Modern Leadership: Understanding Leadership, Power, Politics, Conflicts and Self-Reflection

Power and modern
leadership

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................3
Power in leadership and business .................................................................................................3
Politics in organisation and their role............................................................................................4
Conflicts and their outcomes in an organisation .........................................................................5
CONCLUSION .................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is an activity of motivation of a team or group to act towards the
accomplishment of their common goal. A leader is that person who has the spirit and intent of
mind to take a tough decision in the critical situation. The modern leadership focus on the dreams
as well as other strategic goals, on network as well as the hierarchies. Power in the leadership, is
the ability of controlling activities of other peoples. It is a position of the power that is held by a
person in a group or team which provide him with the opportunities to exercise an interpersonal
influence on the team members for directing their efforts towards their common goal. A leader ha
the power to inspire other individuals to follow his instructions voluntarily and also manage the
completion of a task or project without any force. Leadership is the process of influence in which
the leader is in a position to control, shape, regulate and change the behaviour, attitude and
performance of his team members. In a group or team, the leaders and his subordinates play the
expected roles of them and seek to justify a respective position of themselves. The main aim of
this report is to understand the concept of leadership, power of leadership in an organisation,
politics in the organisation, conflict at workplace and self reflective statement by this study.
(Bernhard, 2020).
Power in leadership and business
Power in business is refers to the ability of a manager to influence others. In an
organisation, a manager obtain his power from both an organisation as positional power and from
him as personal power. For a successful management, the combination of the positional and
personal power is very effective. According to the French and Raven's theory there are five forms
of power which are given below:
Coercive - In this, the power is come from the idea that, a leader can penalise his followers or
subordinates if they do not carry out his instructions. The leader has the ability to control his team.
This power forcing someone for doing something against his will (Ciot and Damaschin, 2020).
Reward - This power is based on the thought that the leader will grant a reward if the followers
will carry out his instructions. With the ability of rewarding to the team members with such things
like an appraisal or bonus then the leader has the ability to give instructions and command
follower's attention trough these rewards.