5 Summary of Week 2

Frameworks of power can help you identify the kind of power you are being subjected to and the kind of power you can draw on in your leadership. Lukes’ (2005) three faces of power offers a useful way of differentiating between broad types of power – decision-making, non-decision-making and ideological. Taking a more granular approach, it is worth bearing in mind that people gain power from various sources – such as their access to information and ability to reward compliance. Amy Allen’s (2017) framework of power-over, power-to and power-with helps to identify how different kinds of power work in and against each other. It also helps appreciation of the power of solidarity (power-with), which can be built through everyday acts. Power is of course a huge topic and there are many more aspects to it that you will uncover as you progress through the course. One important area to explore is the role of resistance in opposing power but also in driving leadership. You will now move on to study resistance over Weeks 3 and 4.

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