A Study of the Relationship between the Power Applied by the Managers and the Employees' Violence

Power is one of the determining factors of the efficiency of management; a factor without which no leader can handle leadership affairs. Anyway, power is the essence of management. Efficient managers know how to apply their power, but lots of people are still ignorant of the productive and essential effect of their authority on the others. Violence at work is harmful even if it doesn’t result in physical injury; because it leaves a harmful effect on the minds of the employees. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the relationship between the managers’ authority and the employees’ violence. This research was managed using correlative method and a sample subject. The findings of this research indicated that there is a relationship between violence and the power of rewarding, the power of regulation, the power of authority, and the power of expertise; but there is no relationship between coercive power and violence.