Lesson 2: Power

Question 1

What is power?

Answer 1

Power is the ability to get someone else to do something you want done or to make things happen the way you want.

Question 2

What are the two sources of managerial power?

Answer 2

Power position and personal power

Question 3

What is position power?

Answer 3

• Based on a manager’s official status in the organization’s hierarchy of authority
• Important to use your position power for good and not evil….

Question 4

What are the 3 types of position power and explain them?

Answer 4

Reward power: the ability to offer something of value––a positive outcome––as a means of influencing the behavior of other people.

Coercive power: the ability to punish as a means of influencing the behavior of other people.

Legitimate power: the right by virtue of one’s organizational position or status to exercise control over persons in subordinate positions

Question 5

What is personal power?

Answer 5

Reflects the unique personal qualities that a person brings to the leadership situation

Question 6

What are the 2 types of personal power and explain them?

Answer 6

Expert power: the ability to influence the behavior of other people because of one’s knowledge, understanding, and skills.

Referent power: the ability to influence the behavior of other people because they admire you and want to identify positively with you.