Notion de pouvoir : how does the power influence us in companies ?

I'm going to talk about the notion of Power. First of all, I would like to give a brief definition of the notion.The power is the capacity or ability to direct on the influence the behaviour of others on the course of events. We can then wonder how does the power influence us in companies ?

I)bad influence in companies on the employees

yet It can happen that the leaders overuse their power over others, it is what we can see in the movie Philadelphia

In that movie a man is going to be fired for two reasons because it is gay and because he has got AIDS.

but his managers who are lawyers and know perfectly That they are not allowed to fire him because of his homosexuality pretend to fire him because he has lost an important document.

Andrew Beckett (that is name) Will lead toa battle to death against his previous manager in the will win is trial. A beautiful way to show others that they must struggle against illegal and abusive power.

first of all there are interaction between employees.

A natural order is soon settling in all companies.

Some people are going to gain power over weaker ones and there is nothing to do against that.

It happens everyday. In the devil wears Prada, we can understand that the first assistant thinks it is normal to give orders to the second assistant, and so on. She also think it normal to go Paris with Miranda.

II)good influence in companies on the employees

sometimes power in firms is different. The idea has come from American or Scandinavian companies that the more people are happy on their working place.

this companies are called “freedom enterprise” in which employees con choose when and how they work (arriving at 10 o’clock, listening to music or having a snap after lunch …). Their manager only wants then be productive, and only examines the final result.

This is visible in such enterprise as google, for instance.

some managers are particularity charismatic. We have an example of that kind of person with the character of Miranda Priestly.

She is a real born-leader, when everybody admires and fears at the same time. She can obtain everything from the person she employes, because these persons would do anything to be well - considered by her.

Her power inside her company is entire, and her power outside it keeps growing thanks to her reputation of hard - working and very professional woman.

To conclude companies can be a good influence for their employees like Google but can also push them to exhaustion or resignation.

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