MICRO POWER

The intention of people writing in the power school has been to wake
strategic management up to a basic reality of organizational life: that
organizations consist of individuals with dreams, hopes, jealousies, interests,
and fears. This may seem like an obvious point, but much of
the literature for a long time gave the impression that senior managers
were rational actors who defined strategies that everyone else embraced,
compliant and loyal "labor inputs" that they were. In contrast
to this, let us consider strategy making as a political process and then
strategies themselves as political before we conclude with the positive
benefits of micro politics.