The Concept of Power in Organizations ?Factors Influencing the Distribution of Power, and Strategies for Obtaining and Maintaining Power?

Abstract

This proceeding intends to highlight the concept of power in organizations, which is located at the hub of business and management area, by scrutinizing the sources of power and the factors influencing the distribution of power, and also the strategies for obtaining and maintaining power. Organizations play a crucial role by serving as the core structural units of the management world. Likely, the concept of power resembles the circulatory system of the human body. The flow of power within the organization has a vital significance such as the circulation of blood. Thus, understanding the elements that affect the dispersion of power, will consequently clarify the sources of power in organizations and/or vice versa. In addition to this, the need to comprehend the strategies developed in order to achieve and sustain power, has made the issue obligatory to be examined via an academic perspective in an interdisciplinary framework. Eventually, in any case, where the terms management and strategy are used; an organization, serving as a catalyst to attain specific goals, and certain power related to that organization, will be mentioned. As an academic and also a businessman, who believes in the assumption which points out a tiny group of people periodically coming together around a round table to manage the world, my interest towards the issue of power, is much stronger than the materials presented under the umbrella of this limited paper. Possibly, behind this motivation, the will to obtain power might be hidden. In other words, experiencing the feeling of being powerful, exercising power, putting power in hand? Power must be something like that: Something that attracts people, something that begins where the mind is gone?