Positional power

Relation

Personal power

Source

reward

coercive

affect the strength of

Expert

legitimate

( Carson, Carson, & Roe, 1993 ; Gaski, 1986 ; Rahim & Psenicka, 1996 ; Rahim, 2009 )

reward

(together with expert power)

positively associated

referent

( Munduate & Dorado, 1998 )

coercive

reduce

referent power

( Aguinis, Nesler, Quigley, & Tedeschi, 1994 )

coercive

reward

reduce

expert

( Aguinis et al., 1994 )

Legitimate

are likely to have (reverse) (people accept expertise as a basis for authority)

expert

( Lunenburg, 2012 )