LEADERSHIP

Leadership Concepts and Applications

Leadership Concepts and Applications

A-1 Examples of Bases of Power

Coercive

Example for coercive power is not that much related to the case, but we can relate it to the situation of Employee 1. As employee 1, was desperate for the annual bonus, the manager of his department made a good use of this dependency and asked him to work beyond requisite 40 hours a week in order to get an annual bonus.

Legitimate

For example, according to the case of Employee 1 the manager was using his legitimate power by making an appeal to the employee to work for late hours ...