The Power Engineering Process

Introduction
The Power Case Study has dealing with changes that can shift the power base from one department to the other. By introducing a new total quality philosophy changes in group dynamics have taken place. This had led to a loss of dependency to the engineering group and consequently to a loss of their power.


Question 1
Explain your understanding of power. Identify the sources of power available to participants in this case.

Power is the capacity of a person, a team, or organization to influence others. It is not the act of changing others` attitude or behaviour; it is only the potential to do so. Mostly people even do not know that they have power, or they know and do not use it.
The most basic prerequisite of power is that one party believes he or she is dependent on the other for something of value. Within an organization you might have power over others by controlling a desired job assignment, useful information, important resources, or even the privilege of being...