Types of Authority :
Types of Authority Traditional authority
Charismatic authority
Rational-legal authority
Traditional authority :
Traditional authority Traditional authority (also known as traditional domination) is a form of Leadership in which the authority of an organisation is largely tied to tradition or custom.
Traditional leaders
ruling for more than one generation
Kings
Emperors
Sultans etc……
Charismatic authority :
Charismatic authority Charismatic authority is 'power legitimized on the basis of a leader's exceptional personal qualities or the demonstration of extraordinary insight and accomplishment, which inspire loyalty and obedience from followers'.
"a certain quality of an individual personality, by virtue of which he is set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities”.
Jesus isa charismatic religious leader :
Jesus isa charismatic religious leader
Rational-legal authority :
Rational-legal authority Rational-legal authority (also known as rational authority, legal authority, rational domination, legal domination, or bureaucratic authority) is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organisation is largely tied to legal rationality, and bureaucracy.
Legal rationality: legal order as a system where the rules are implemented and obeyed in the belief that they are legitimate because they conform with the statuses of a government that monopolizes their enactment.