Qns: Is there a relationship between sources of power, the type of leadership, and type of followers? Explain with one good example.
Ans:
There is a relationship between sources of power, the type of leadership and type of followers.
For an example in Adolf Hitler case. Adolf Hitler uses coercion as his power. This means that he can change a person behaviour even when they do not wish so. Adolf Hitler uses this to get his men to listen to him and to join the army. Adolf Hilter uses the fact that he will kill the man's family if he doesn't join the army or if he doesn't hand in the Jews. This resulted that the man will want to see that his family is spared, he will join the army or hand in the jews.
Adolf Hitler's leadership uses Transformational Leadership. He keeps showing the Germans the vision that he have and that he keep telling the Germans that the Jews are the people to blame. Therefore causes the people to have the misconception that Jews are the one to blame for all the mishaps and all the troubles that they faces. Therefore when some of the Germans do not wish to follow his leadership, this will result that Hilter will use his source of power to silence them and get the people to fear him and to follow him more willingly.
Hilter's way of doing things will result that he will have many die hard fans. These people are willing to discriminate the Jews, and die without asking why. This is because, Hilter had given them enough fear and that these people learn that they need to follow order without questioning. So with such die hard fans, they are actually taught that they are dying for the country's sake, which in actual fact is a way to die for Hilter's ambition. Therefore the sources of power, the types of leadership and the type of followers and interlinked. If they are not interlinked, there will not be a good leader.