Legitimate Power
This type of power flows from the officially
recognized position, status, or by a title.
What is legitimate power?
This type of influence comes from having superior knowledge or skills in a particular area.
What is expert power?
This type of power comes from a person’s attractiveness, likability, and charisma.
What is referent power?
This type of power comes from a person’s ability to access information through informal, social, and professional networks?
What is information power?
This type of power comes from a person’s ability to give positive incentives to motivate group members.
What is reward power?
True or False: The manager of a fast food chain location, by default is given the legitimate power while working with the other employees as a group.
What is True?
A person with expert power earns influence because others trust their judgment in this.
What is their area of expertise?
True or false. A person with referent power has the talent and skill to lead a group.
What is false?
True or False: Information power can help groups solve problems and get things done.
What is True?
A leader using this type of power might give positive feedback, appreciation cards, or small tokens of recognition.
What are examples of reward power?
True or False: The legitimate power given to a leader must not be earned.
What is false?
Group members often rely on someone with expert power when faced with one of these specific types of challenges.
What is a technical or specialized problem?
A group member might gain referent power or a good reputation due to these two things.
What are previous accomplishments or dependability?
How do individuals develop information power?
What is interacting with others?
This type of power relies on negative incentives and can lead to conflict or a negative group climate if overused.
What is coercive power?
This type of title gives a head of the “Social Media Relations Department” of a retail chain legitimate power.
What is a director/leader?
Expert power often helps a leader contribute more effectively to this process that involves finding answers or solutions.
What is problem solving?
A group formed to raise funds for a science project may select a local celebrity, a famous environmentalist, or a NASA astronaut as their leader for this reason.
What is they possess referent power?
What type of relationships can information power help maintain and build? (Hint: think personal!)
What is interpersonal relationships or instrumental relationships?
Because resources are limited, leaders often struggle with this challenge when trying to use reward power.
What is the inability to offer meaningful or tangible rewards, like bonuses or prizes?
This type of stance/opinion regarding status or a position of power is left up to the other group members.
What is respect and/or recognition?
When someone’s expertise becomes highly valued, they may rise into this influential but unofficial role within the group.
What is an unofficial/secondary leader?
A person has strong referent power, but doesn’t have pertinent knowledge or leadership experience to lead.
What is a figurehead?
What are all the ways that you can develop information power?
What is interacting with others, making connections, and maintaining relationships?
In groups without formal rules, like volunteer groups, leaders can’t issue official punishments. Instead, coercive power tends to show up in these interpersonal behaviors.
What are ignoring group members or excluding them from group activities?