SOC361H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Charismatic Authority, Proletariat, Bourgeoisie
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Power and power outcomes: one important component of organizational culture is centralization, but the distribution of power. In many ways, power is the most puzzling phenomenon: on the one hand, how was often stable and self-perpetuating, partly because those in power have the resources to maintain that power. On the other hand long entrenched systems of power can be overthrown with startling quickness as the events in eastern europe and the former soviet union have demonstrated. Authority and power: there are many different bases of power and, hence, different types of power, weber, in his classic analysis of bureaucratic organization, emphasize this distinction. Power outcomes: compliance and involvement: the most frequent consequence of the exercise of power is compliance. Functional conflict induced by various subsystems within the organizations (differentiation) this form of conflict stems from differentiation, which leads people and units to have different and often opposing interests: 2.
