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CESC - Lesson 4 - Q3

Leaders are important to guide community members and ensure plans are implemented coherently. There are formal and informal power structures. Formal leaders are appointed by the government at national and local levels, while informal leaders gain respect and influence people without official titles. Both legal decision-makers and informal influencers are important parts of a community's power dynamics.

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CESC - Lesson 4 - Q3

Leaders are important to guide community members and ensure plans are implemented coherently. There are formal and informal power structures. Formal leaders are appointed by the government at national and local levels, while informal leaders gain respect and influence people without official titles. Both legal decision-makers and informal influencers are important parts of a community's power dynamics.

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COMMUNITY

ENGAGEMENT,
SOLIDARITY AND
CITIZENSHIP
LESSON 4:
FUNCTIONS OF COMMUNITY
Understanding Community through its
Dynamics

Leaders are important figures that will


guide the members to carry out the plans in
pursuit of the group’s objectives. The guidance
of a good leader in a group ensures the
coherence of plans and better implementation
of programs. 2
In the Philippines, the government provides
several levels of leadership, from the president and
vice-president, including other government officials at
the national and in the local levels such as mayors,
congressmen, and governors. They are appointed
based on qualifications, attitude and most often,
through the votes of the residents. It is otherwise
known as Formal Power Structure because they are
individuals from whose authority is based on formal
rules appointed by the government.
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There are also people who are appointed
because of their ability to lead, direct or achieve
without an official leadership title. They are
known as Informal Power Structure. They are
popular to others as influencers who can lead
others with the most influence. Informal power
comes, not from an official position, but from
the respect and appreciation one has earned
from the members of a group.
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This respect and appreciation allow
the individual to influence his or her
peers in a way that others within the
group cannot. Examples are managers,
supervisors, philanthropists,
businessmen, producers and even
employees who lead their group as likable
and charismatic leaders.
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Legal authoritative decision-
makers, on the other hand, are
individuals or bodies whose authority is
based on formal rules and institutions.
They are appointed because of their
intelligence, reputations, decision-
making, dictation from laws and policies
and connections. 6
Examples are the appointments made by the
president of the country through his/her
Powers of Appointment as stated in the
constitution or with the consent of the
Commission on Appointments like the heads of
the executive departments, board of members
and its leaders from any national government-
related institutions, ambassadors, other public
ministers and consuls, etc.
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The aforementioned (3) power dynamics are part of
individual dimensions of community which could be:

1. Interrelationship- community leaders are with direct


relation with you through familial relations, affinities or
feeling of kinship, and social network, and

2. Organization- they could be part of an institution or


an association, that has a particular purpose in our
community.
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