Power Base essays

Power Base essays In most of the formal organizations there are five bases of power that we can exercise and these five bases are: reward power, coercive power, legitimate power, referent power, and expert power. However in nonprofit social organization, there are some limitations that wont allow us to exercise all of those five power bases. Based on my personal experience, these two of the power bases are the ones thats hard to exercise when it comes to the working environment in a social organization: The coercive power, the ability to fire a worker if he falls below a given level expectation and the legitimate power in which formal organization is largely a relationship between offices rather than between people and the acceptance of an office as right is a basis for the legitimate power. The question is why these two power bases are hard to exercise in a nonprofit social organization? Since my first semester at USC I have been involved in business professional club such as: Accounting Society, Beta Alpha Psi and entrepreneur club. Considering that I am going to go back to my country, Indonesia, I decided that during my last semester at USC I would expand my network and get more involved in Indonesian community. That was the point when I decided that to be the president of this Indonesian student organization at USC. As I have been involved as officers for some business professional organizations, I thought that I have more than enough to handle this Indonesian student organization, which I consider as a more relax and fun rather than a formal, busy organization. However, soon I realized there are huge different as which power bases work more effectively in each of the organization and what I found very interesting is that the fact that I dont have the ability to exercise the legitimate and coercive power. During my time as a controller and the director of internal affairs in Accounting Society, I learned that the ...