This is a sample of the book, “10” Major Principles of Authority& its Dominance Adjustment by S-Abdulmalik.
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Chapter 1: UNIVERSAL DOMINANCE AND CONTROL
Series 6
A degree to which one or several species have a major influence controlling the other species in their ecological community because of their productivity, population, sizes and other related factors is term as dominance. Controlling or dominating behavior can stain from various psychological factors, including a need for power and control, insecurity, fear of losing control, low self-esteem or past experience that have shaped an individual behavior.
In some cases, it may also be related to personality traits such as narcissism or a desire for validation and attention. It’s important to note that controlling behavior can have a negative impact on relationship and can be harmful to both the individual exhibiting the behavior and those around them. These dominance and control behavior is legally influenced by power and authority.
Power simply defines a delegated authority while authority is the power with limitless liberty of operation. While power and authority can seem similar in everyday language, these are different concepts. Both authority and power are importance to considered for effective leadership, as leaders have the power to influence value that affect behavior.
For example, a boss in a company has the power to set up regulations for the company’s daily functioning. Authority refers to the legal and formal right to give command and make decisions. For example, A manager has the authority to revise employees’ work schedules based on the needs of the company. In the realm of self-interest-negotiation, instrumental rationality and contract, the supervisor has power. They are obeyed because other believe they know how to obtain the best possible combination means to pursue a shared set of ends.
In the realm of interest in other and sympathy, the friend boss exerts influence and therefore has power. We obey them because we like them and we like them because they like people in return: they are human and take other individual problem and difficulties seriously.
In the realm of obligation, moral, level, economic – the director implements the law and therefore has power. They are obeyed because they embody the organization’s founding values. They alone understand the organization as a whole.
In the realm of freedom-creativity-generativity, charismatic power, the innovator, the entrepreneur has power. They are obeyed because they have the vision to break with routine. They create hope by illuminating future possibilities.
Everyone in a position of power must be able to continue these four registers of action, the four possible types of legitimacy. There must be a supervisor in some measure, a friend, a director and innovator in some measure. If they do so well, the increase in the collective’s power of action and become power bearers, and are obeyed because they have authority. This authority makes it unnecessary to recall the reasons for obeying the source of power, among others.
