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Reward power

What are the features of reward power?
  • Reward power is based on the leader`s ability to provide rewards for other people.
  • The leader provides tokens of gifts for compliance to leader`s wishes and directives.
  • The gifts include bonuses, promotion, time off from work, additional privileges.
  • People who follow a leader with reward power believe that going along with the leader`s suggestion will lead to positive incentives and gifts.
Question
    Listen to the video above and study the readings given on this page. Focusing on a named institutional leader, explain how he/she exercises reward power.

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