Power& Dimensions

• Power always involves the exercise of power by one person or persons to another person or persons. 
• Power is the ability to get someone to do something he/she wants to accomplish, thus making things happen in the way he/she wants.
• influence is the process by which a person affects the behavior and feeling of another person.
• in order to influence a person there must be an "authority" which is the right to change another person.
• 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. 
• Decision-making- This refers to the end of the person seeking for power, where he has to have influence over others because they are vital to whatever decisions he would be making inherent to his status or position. 
• 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.
• Legitimate power- This is the type or kind of power which is oftentimes referred to as positional power. There is a legal and formal basis for the acquisition or delegation of power to a certain individual and there are relative position and duties and responsibilities. 
• 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. For one, the so- called "charisma" or a very enterprising inherent personal characteristic is the Indicative factor of referent power. 
• Expert power- this type of power presupposes the expertise or special knowledge one has to capacitate him/her exert influence over another person.
• Coercive power- The word cocrcive denotes negativity, however, sometimes, this kind of power is deemed necessary to make other people obey laws or directives or to prevent an unnecessary action. The exercise of this power presupposes the use of threat or punishment.  
• 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.