A supervisor uses discretionary funds to give a restaurant gift certificate to an employee who did an outstanding job on a difficult project. Which type Reward Power Expert Power Referent power.

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Jonas Ramsey

Social Studies

9 September, 02:38

A supervisor uses discretionary funds to give a restaurant gift certificate to an employee who did an outstanding job on a difficult project. Which type Reward Power Expert Power Referent power.

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Toby Charles · Answer 1

Answer: Reward Power

Explanation:

Reward power is the power persisted by any manager or superior position holding person to provide reward to employees and workers for their outstanding working so that it can influence them perform better in future. This reward can be in form of salary increment, bonus, promotion etc.

According to the question, reward power is used by supervisor for providing gift certificate to employee for his good job as a reward. It is for influencing his job in the project.

Other options are incorrect because expert power and referent power are not the measure for influencing any employee by providing rewards. Thus, the correct option is reward power.