Application Exercise 2

Running Head : APPLICATION EXERCISE

Application Exercise : Week 2

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Institution

Chapters Five and Six of the book by Johnson and Johnson (2009 ) provide a discussion of the concepts of leadership and power . A distinction between leadership and authority , and leadership and management is made clear . Different types of power and the ways to exercise it are discussed . These concepts lay a theoretical basis for the understanding of group dynamics , for these are the core notions that any group member has to operate with , either consciously or unconsciously p

Indeed , being a member of the group , a person has to distinguish between the leader and the authority , as they often have different functions in the organization . A leader is a person who can influence others to be more effective , say Johnson and Johnson (2009 ,

.168 , and authority is legitimate power assigned to a particular position (Johnson Johnson , 2009 ,

.187 . Therefore , these definitions bring about another important distinction - the distinction between influence and power

Yet , all these concepts as well as different leadership theories are nothing without application to practice . In reality , one often exerts and experiences influence and power simultaneously . For example , working as an operations manager I should lead my organization to greater efficiency within my sphere of responsibilities , for which I have to exert influence over others . At the same time , I experience influence and power exerted over me by the management . This is one of the ways how power is distributed within an organization . When...