Leadership Power

Leadership is the ability, through which the individual influence others to achieve their objectives. So leadership is part of the management. Management will also be defined as the process by which an individual tries to influence others.

The lines through which leaders influence the people are important because it affects the function:

1. Approaches
2. Motivation
3. Communication

Leadership Power

Power is the ability of individuals or groups to change or influence the opinions or behavior of people. There are various bases of power, which may originate from a legitimate authority, expertise, trust, compensation options and the like.

There are six different views of power:

Remuneration - based on a specific person over government resources
Coercion - the source of this kind of power to punish is to reward that, if used to threaten a position to compel others to take some action
Legitimacy - it's power, which is implemented in accordance with the rules applicable to the organization on the basis of a mandate issued by the organization
Officer - this kind of power is dependent on personal charisma, or attractiveness of an individual's personal
Expert - it is the power derived from knowledge based on the recognition of expertise second
Information - the information about the connections that help to predict future behavior or future events

Logically, it appears that when the growth of subordinate participation in power, the ability of leaders to exercise power actually increases.

Expanding the powers of granting those rights and responsibilities of employees at all levels, enabling them to decide at their own discretion. This kind of leadership extend powers to the subordinate. They believe people in each of their position knows best about how to do their work.