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Dominant coalition is defined as the organizational objectives and strategies, personal characteristics, and internal relationships of that minimum group of cooperating employees who oversee the organization as a whole and control its basic policy making.
It is made up of the president/director and his lieutenants as designated by the formal structure, sometimes excluding some of them and including others.
Particular skills, interpersonal and cognitive orientation, goals and values of the dominant coalition influence organizational processes. Because the dominant coalition occupies the top position of power in the organization’s social system, it have a larger overall impact that others who occupy lesser power positions.
Questions to Determine the Present State of Dominant Coalition
1. Who is in the organization’s dominant coalition? Describe each of these people in terms of personal skills, attitudes, motives or desires, assumptions about how organizations should be organized and run, and so on.
2. What are the relationships among the member of the coalition? How cohesive a group is it? Who has the most power?
3. What goals and plans for the organization does the group share?
4. How powerful is this group vis-à-vis others in the organization? What is the basis of this power?
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