Frontline Views on Power

Abstract

This chapter presents the results of the survey of employees, supervisors, managers, directors, and owners of businesses. There are a few prefatory comments to be made before a dive into the specific results of the survey. First of all, none of the open-ended comments from the survey stated that any particular forms were missing. This provides support for the idea that the net has been flung far and freely on the subject of power. The eight forms of power have been identified. Second, not only did the survey provide some very clear answers about power, it also gave us color and dimension in the form of incisive or lengthy comments on the part of the respondent. This was done by way of the open-ended question about how power personally affected the survey participant.