Assessment IDENTIFICATION. Identify the type of power being described in the following items. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. 1. The target person complies because he or she admires or identifies with the agent and wants to gain the agent's approval. 2. The target person complies in order to avoid punishments he or she believes are controlled by the agent. 3. The target person complies in order to obtain rewards he or she believes are controlled by the agent. 4. The target person complies because he or she believes that the agent has special knowledge about the best way to do something. 5. The target person complies because he or she believes the agent has the right to make the request and the target person has the obligation to comply. TRUE OR FALSE. For items 6-10, write TRUE if the statement is correct and write FALSE if otherwise. 6. Expert power may result to commitment if the leader presents logical arguments and supporting evidence for a particular proposal, order or policy. 1. Commitment is a very likely consequence if coercive power is employed. 8. Compliance is most likely to happen if the reward is something valued by the target person. 9. Coercive power is exercised by asking someone with whom one has a friendship to do something. 10.It is best to use coercion power in preventing behavior that is harmful to the society and well-being of the people such as illegal and violent activities.
