This authority resides in the
rights that a person has in making decisions and taking actions. In other
words, the higher the job, the greater the power a person can benefit from.
In the MOVE situation, it is more than clear that the Philadelphia
mayor benefits from a great amount of power. His power comes from both
individual and organizational sources. On official level, the mayor holds
the greatest power within his organization. Even more, his power can be
used further than his organization, as the mayor can use its power to
change things in his community. Actually, this is the job he is paid to
perform: exerting the power invested in him in order to neutralize the
problems that his community is dealing with.
But in this case, the mayor did the exact opposite thing. In the first
phases of the problem's development, he did not use his power in any way,
because he did not take any actions, which would have been quite easy for
him. It is quite hard to determine exactly why the mayor did not act upon
the problem from the beginning, allowing this problem to develop, to go out
of hand, and to follow the course of action described in the case study.
In my opinion, the...
He probably considered
that the problem would not develop more than it had already. Even more, the
mayor probably considered that the problem will diminish in time. This
means that the mayor was characterized by incompetence.
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