Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
power relationships
English answer:
relationships/contacts with people of influence/decision makers/key employees
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Danila Moro
Feb 3, 2015 17:15
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English term
power relationships
English
Bus/Financial
Human Resources
suggestions for employees on the basis of the results of a corporate questionnaire
--Identify power relationships, the level of influence and importance of these relationships to the achievement of your business objectives as well as their interests or concerns.
--Fill in an influence/interest matrix to analyze this strategically and use the map and/or matrix to develop a stakeholder action plan for the next 6-12 months.
How do you interpret "power" here? What kind of relationships are meant?
--Fill in an influence/interest matrix to analyze this strategically and use the map and/or matrix to develop a stakeholder action plan for the next 6-12 months.
How do you interpret "power" here? What kind of relationships are meant?
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Jacek Kloskowski
United States
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relationships/contacts with people of influence/decision makers/key employees
My take on it
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Comment: "thanks, this was my idea too."
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Sabina Moscatelli
Italy
Italy
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rapporti di potere
secondo me si dice così
Note from asker:
| mi hanno già dato questa risposta nella sezione en-ita, ma io non sono affatto convinta che questo sia il senso, perciò l'ho sottoposta ai madrelingua. |
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Igor Kondrashkin
Russian Federation
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superior-subordinate relationships
Power relations are those relations where one party dominates (has and exercises power over) the other party.
Note from asker:
| I don't think this is the meaning here. How would you make sense of this in the context? Could you explain? |
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organization-stakeholder relationships (here)
It is very clear from the second point (--Fill in...6-12 months) that the relations within the organisation are not being referred to in this context.
Please see this link which shows the influence/interest matrix to map the organisation-stakeholder (or power relationships, as per this context).
http://www.tutor2u.net/business/accounts/stakeholder_power.h...
The relevance of this topic is even greater given
the recent governance failures involving Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom.
http://www.albany.edu/~pm157/research/stakeholders.pdf
This article from The Academy of Management Journal tries to show the effect of power relationships on the firm's financial performance.
Other references:
http://www.policy-powertools.org/Tools/Understanding/docs/st...
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This is the link to the A\article from The Academy of Management Journal
http://faculty.bschool.washington.edu/skotha/website/article...
Please see this link which shows the influence/interest matrix to map the organisation-stakeholder (or power relationships, as per this context).
http://www.tutor2u.net/business/accounts/stakeholder_power.h...
The relevance of this topic is even greater given
the recent governance failures involving Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom.
http://www.albany.edu/~pm157/research/stakeholders.pdf
This article from The Academy of Management Journal tries to show the effect of power relationships on the firm's financial performance.
Other references:
http://www.policy-powertools.org/Tools/Understanding/docs/st...
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Note added at 11 hrs (2015-02-04 04:38:09 GMT)
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This is the link to the A\article from The Academy of Management Journal
http://faculty.bschool.washington.edu/skotha/website/article...
Note from asker:
| The stakeholders in my contest can also be people inside the organisation (managers, employees etc.), so the problem of traducing "power" remains, what is meant here is the powerful stakeholdes. |
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Helena Chavarria
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http://www.proz.com/kudoz/English/social_science_sociology_e...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2015-02-03 19:44:04 GMT)
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The concept of "power relations" deals with how different groups are able to interact with and control other groups. Understanding power relations is important for understanding modern sociology. However, there is considerable debate about how power relations should be defined.
In areas where different groups of people live, one group is likely to exert control over the other group. The relations can be clear and unambiguous in certain scenarios; slaves, for example, are explicitly controlled by other groups. Power relations also deal with more subtle forms of control; roles in movies are dominated by men, so many claim that patriarchal dominance privileges men over women in films.
http://www.ask.com/world-view/power-relations-8263a0ae182ff7...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2015-02-03 19:44:04 GMT)
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The concept of "power relations" deals with how different groups are able to interact with and control other groups. Understanding power relations is important for understanding modern sociology. However, there is considerable debate about how power relations should be defined.
In areas where different groups of people live, one group is likely to exert control over the other group. The relations can be clear and unambiguous in certain scenarios; slaves, for example, are explicitly controlled by other groups. Power relations also deal with more subtle forms of control; roles in movies are dominated by men, so many claim that patriarchal dominance privileges men over women in films.
http://www.ask.com/world-view/power-relations-8263a0ae182ff7...
Note from asker:
| thanks for the explanation, but I can't find a relationship between this meaning and my context. Can you? I personally think that the meaning here should be another. |
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