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Leadership is about influence along with managerial authority to assist a group to achieve its goals. Managers should be leaders and leading is one of the functions of management. In this chapter we learned about traits and leadership theories. One of the issues facing leaders is their sources of power.

Question:

Part 1:

Identify the 5 sources of power and explain all 5 Sources of Power available to leaders. With each source provide a description of what each of these sources mean.

Part 2:

Choose 1 power source and provide your opinion of 1 criticism of it as well as how this has affected you personally and professionally. Please give critical thought to your answer and share how you worked through and resolved the challenge this power source created for you.

Part 3:

Choose a DIFFERENT power source a leader has and provide your opinion on 1 benefit to the leader's followers both personally and professionally. Remember to think of how this is power is beneficial to followers and the organization