power

Examples of power in the following topics:

• Power

  • Legitimate power, power given to individuals willingly by others, is called "authority;" illegitimate power, power taken by force or the threat of force, is called "coercion. " In the corporate environment, power is often expressed as upward or downward.
  • Power can be seen as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as endemic to humans as social beings.
  • Because power operates both relationally and reciprocally, sociologists speak of the balance of power between parties to a relationship.
  • All parties to all relationships have some power.
  • Compare the positives and negatives associated with the use of power and how power operates in society

• Power

  • Typically, the employer (or boss) has more power.
  • By comparison, the employee has less power.
  • Power can be seen as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as endemic to humans as social beings.
  • Thus power has a connotation of unilateralism.
  • In one example, more powerful people turned off an irritatingly close fan twice as much as less powerful people.

• Sources of Power

  • Power is the ability to get things done.
  • Although people sometimes regard power as evil or corrupt, power is a fact of organizational life and in itself is neither good nor bad.
  • Power comes from several sources, each of which has different effects on the targets of that power.
  • Also called "positional power," this is the power individuals have from their role and status within an organization.
  • Coercive power relies on fear to induce compliance.

• Napoleon's Rise to Power

• The Balance of Power

• Hitler's Rise to Power

• Inherent Powers

  • Inherent powers are assumed powers of the president not specifically listed in the Constitution.
  • Inherent powers are those powers that a sovereign state holds.
  • In other words, Inherent powers are assumed powers of the president not specifically listed in the Constitution.
  • Inherent powers come from the president's role as chief executive.
  • It says all executive power is vested in the president.

• What is Power?

  • In physics, power is the rate of doing work—the amount of energy consumed per unit time.
  • In physics, power is the rate of doing work.
  • Power implies that energy is transferred, perhaps changing form.
  • A coal-fired power plant may produce 1,000 megawatts; 1 megawatt (MW) is 106 W of electric power.
  • Tremendous amounts of electric power are generated by coal-fired power plants such as this one in China, but an even larger amount of power goes into heat transfer to the surroundings.

• Expressing Functions as Power Functions

  • A power function is a function of the form $f(x) = cx^r$ where $c$ and $r$ are constant real numbers.
  • A power function is a function of the form $f(x) = cx^r$ where $c$ and $r$ are constant real numbers.
  • Polynomials are made of power functions.
  • Since all infinitely differentiable functions can be represented in power series, any infinitely differentiable function can be represented as a sum of many power functions (of integer exponents).
  • Power functions are a special case of power law relationships, which appear throughout mathematics and statistics.

• Delegated Powers

  • The delegated powers are a list of items found in the U.S.
  • Almost all presidential powers rely on what Congress does or does not do.
  • And many presidential powers are delegated powers that Congress has accorded presidents to exercise on its behalf and that it can cut back or rescind.
  • The delegated powers, also called enumerated powers, are a list of items found in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S.
  • John Marshall's writing about enumerated powers in McCullogh v.