Chapter 8:

Ajesta, Mitche
POWER
Bermal, Bea
Nava, Hymah Kent
 POWER
Ofundamentally;
OA group level process
OA group members conforming to
the requirements of others.
 Obedience to Authority
• Bertrand Russell “The Fundamental concept in social
science is Power”
• Powerful people can influence other people in
significant ways.
• Power is a potential to influence that is not actually put
into practices, and it is often rooted in inequalities in
control over resources, outcomes, or activities.
Stanley Milgram
• Born in New York City in
1993
• Queens College (1954)
• Political Science
• Solomon Asch
 The Milgram Experiments
• Stanley Milgram (1974)
• Three-man groups
* One member was a volunteer who had answer
advertisement.
* One member was the experimenter who was in
charge of the session.
* One member was the part of the research team.
 Milgram’s Findings
• Harm versus Right
• Proximity and Surveillance Effects
• Prestige and Legitimacy
• Group Effects
Bases of Power
 Reward Power
• The power to give some type of reward as a means to
influence the employee to act. It can be tangible or
Intangible
 Coercive Power
• The ability of a person to force someone to follow an
order by threatening him/her with punishment.
 Legitimate Power
• Individuals who have legitimate power have the
socially sanctioned right to ask others to obey
their orders.
 Referent Power
• Is the individual with referent power lies at
the interpersonal center of the group.
 Expert Power
• Group members often defer to an take the advice of
those who seem to possess superior skills and abilities.
 Informational Power
• Group members can turn information into
power by providing it to others who need it, by
keeping it form others, by organizing it,
increasing it, or even falsifying it.
 Bases and Obedience
• That’s how you make people obey you.