Associated with each authority relation is a certain administrative structure.
Traditional authority leads to gerontocracy, patriarchialism,and feudalism.
Rational-legal authory leads to structures of which the most highly developed is bureaucracy. Charasmatic authority leads to a more personal structure of a leader and his devoted followers. Authority in Organizations Social scientists define authority as legitimate power. So legitmate power is the combination of a set of persons and power relations and a set of norms governing the exercise of power and the response to it. In informal groups norms develop where the subordinates to power see the relationship as acceptable and appropriate.