Nature, Dimensions,

Types and
Consequences of Power
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AERON JOHN A. AMIN, PhD

Subject Teacher
MELC: Analyze the
nature,
dimensions/ types,
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and consequences
of power.
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Lesson
Objectives: EXPLAIN AND IDENTIFY THE ASSESS HOW POWER
IS EXERCISED IN YOUR
DISCUSS THE DIFFERENT RESPECTIVE
NATURE OF TYPES OF LOCALITIES AND WHAT
POWER AND POWER; ARE THE
IDENTIFY ITS CONSEQUENCES OF
SUCH THROUGH A
DIMENSIONS; CASE STUDY OF ANY
OF THE LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS IN YOUR
BARANGAYS.
 What can you associate
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NATURE OF POWER
• the ability to act or produce an effect
• the capacity for being acted upon or
undergoing an effect;
• the capacity to achieve desired results;
• the ability to influence or outright
control the behavior of people.
• a legal or official authority, capacity, or
right;
TYPES OF POWER
1. Legitimate Power. This is the type or kind
of power which is oftentimes referred to as
positional power.
2. Referent power. When an individual is
able to convince another person without
lifting a finger or just by simply being
with the other person and talking it out
with him, that is referent power.
TYPES OF POWER
3. Expert power. This type of power
presupposes the expertise or special
knowledge one has to capacitate
him/her exert influence over another
person.
4. Coercive power. The exercise of this
power presupposes the use of threat or
punishment.
TYPES OF POWER
5. Reward power. This type of power
refers to the capacity of the power-
wielder to offer or extend a reward
or to recompense an
accomplishment.
DIMENSIONS OF POWER
1. Agenda. This refers to the
motive of the person who
wants to have power or the
reason why one wants to be
paced under the influence of
another person.
DIMENSIONS OF POWER
2. Decision-making. This refers
to the motive of the person who
wants to have power or the
reason why one wants to be
paced under the influence of
another person.
DIMENSIONS OF POWER
3. Manipulation. This is from the means
of who holds the power and it refers to
the controlling factor over the other
person and which means that the
former can make the latter do
whatever he wishes, whether in
legitimate or illegitimate means.
CONSEQUENCES
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OF POWER