You want to do well in this communication course,but you recognize that your final grade is a combination of your effort,skills,and the professor's power to evaluate you.Professors exhibit which kind of power vis-a-vis student grades?
A)referent power
B)expert power
C)reward power
D)Machiavellian power

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Reward power refers to a person's ability to control rewards that another person values, and in this case, the professor has the power to give grades, which are considered a reward for students. While the professor may have some expert power in evaluating student performance, and possibly some referent power if they are well-respected by students, the power at play in grading is primarily reward power. Machiavellian power is not a recognized type of power in organizational theory.

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