Political Pyramid   Organizations provide a power base for individuals. From a purely economic standpoint, organizations exist to create an excess of income over expenses by meeting needs in the marketplace. But organizations are also political structures which provide opportunities for people to develop careers and therefore provide platforms for the expression of individual interests and motives. The development of careers, particularly at high managerial and professional levels, depend on accumulation of power as the vehicle for transforming individual interests into activities which influence other people.   A political pyramid exists when people compete for power in an economy of scarcity. In other words, people cannot get the power they want just for the asking, instead they must enter into decisions on how to distribute authority in a particular formal organization structure.   Questions: Make a research on how and in what instances can individuals gain power within organization? Comment on the ethics of “gaining comparatively at someone’s else’s experience

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Organizations provide a power base for individuals. From a purely economic standpoint, organizations exist to create an excess of income over expenses by meeting needs in the marketplace. But organizations are also political structures which provide opportunities for people to develop careers and therefore provide platforms for the expression of individual interests and motives. The development of careers, particularly at high managerial and professional levels, depend on accumulation of power as the vehicle for transforming individual interests into activities which influence other people.

 

A political pyramid exists when people compete for power in an economy of scarcity. In other words, people cannot get the power they want just for the asking, instead they must enter into decisions on how to distribute authority in a particular formal organization structure.

 

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  1. Make a research on how and in what instances can individuals gain power within organization?
  2. Comment on the ethics of “gaining comparatively at someone’s else’s experience
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