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Balance of Power: Authority or Empowerment? How You Can Get the Best of Both in the Interdependent Organization
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Balance of Power looks at the nature of power in todays companies and asks: What is the right balance between authority (power in the managers hands) and empowerment (power in the employees hands)? The perfect equilibrium between these two styles leads to what author James Lucas calls interdependence - in which employees have enough decision-making authority to do their jobs well, but are not burdened with the wrong responsibilities. How do you reach the balance? This book shows how.

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Balance of Power

James R. Lucas

AMACOM
American Management Association
New York Atlanta Boston Chicago Kansas City San Francisco Washington, D.C.
Brussels Mexico City Tokyo Toronto

This book is available at a special discount when ordered in bulk quantities. For information, contact Special Sales Department, AMACOM, a division of American Management Association, 1601 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.

This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lucas, J. R. (James Raymond), 1950 Balance of power /James R. Lucas.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8144-0393-X (hbk.)
1. Organizational effectiveness. 2. Power (Social sciences) 3. Industrial management-Employee participation. I. Title.
HD58.9.L85 1998
CIP

1998 James R. Lucas
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.

This publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of AMACOM, a division of American Management Association, 1601 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.

To my mother
Anna Laverne Ryan Lucas

And to my brothers and sister
John Ernest Lucas
Daniel Kenneth Lucas
Timothy Michael Lucas
Mary Patricia Lucas Buecker

Together, we learned a lot about the balance of power.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Who Needs This Book?

What Is a Balance of Power?

This Book and Other Books

A Brief Outline of the Book

Section I The Force and the Issues

Power: What It Is and How to Use It

What is Power?

The Morality of Power

How Power Is Exercised

Powersharing

The Leader's Role in Powersharing

Reasons to Use Power

The Myths of Power

Why Myths Persist

Some Key Myths About Power That Sound Like Truths

Laying Aside the Myths

The Quantity and the Quality of Power

Power and Interdependence

How Much Power and to Which People?

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Section II The Quantity of Power

Dependence and the Death of Initiative

Good Things Don't Come to Those Who Wait

The Root of Dependence

The Forms of Dependent Organizations

Results of Dependence

Dependent Definitions

The Death of Dependence

Independence and the Death of Collaboration

Causes of Independence

The Forms of Independent Organizations

Results of Independence

Independent Definitions

The Death of Independence

One Side of the Balance: Retaining Power and Exercising Authority

Legitimate Reasons for Exercising Authority

Methods of Retaining Power

Power, Rights, and Community

Limits of Authority

Overcoming the Obstacles to Effective Exercise of Authority

The Other Side of the Balance: Sharing Power and Yielding Authority

The Importance of Powersharing

Areas in Which to Powershare

Requirements for Powersharing

Methods of Powersharing

False Powersharing

Overcoming the Reasons We Don't Powershare

The Power of Powersharing

Finding the Quantity Balance Through Interdependence

A Critical Change in Attitude

Using the "Load/Burden" Model

Steps in Balancing the Quantity of Power

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