Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics
- Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1.2, University
of Strathclyde, language: English, comment: This paper will discuss
&, assess power control within a corporate setting, focusing
particularly on the pursuit of power by gender. It will include an
analytical approach and a personal reflective view and bring to
light the key determinates for the pursuit of power and authority
within a corporate context., abstract: Power can be found
throughout history in all kinds of organisation. Initially in the
ancient world, power within groups, i.e. in clans, was determined
by factors closely related to physical strength. Obviously, in
today's societies, corporate structures are derived from other
factors. Corporate hierarchies within organisations are establish
based on various "unambiguous or explicit" and "unspoken or
implicit" criteria such as past success, professional experience
and education (unambiguous), or age and political behaviour
(unspoken). A study done by McClelland et al. (in Weiss, p.102i)
refers to Socialized power; used to benefit others and the
organisation, and Personalised power; only used primarily for one's
own personal gain or benefit. Without power, people cannot plan or
achieve goals, and without varying degrees of power among
individuals, it would be impossible to motivate or manage others,
mobilise resources or protect individual rights (Weiss,2001,
p.234). Empirical research on power also makes a gender
distinction, pointing to the different career paths of men and
women. Power is, by nature, a rare commodity and beyond the grasp
of most women and men, but still it is almost exclusively in the
hands of men (Morris, 1994ii).
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