Opinion leaders can be valuable information sources, and are able to influence the attitudes and behaviors of others through their knowledge power, referent power, and high technical competence, also known as expert power.
Expert power is power how employees' perceive that a manager or some other employee of an organization has a high level of knowledge or a specialized set of skills that other employees of the organization do not possess. Such employees are regarded very highly because of the st skills they possess.
Opinion leaders can be valuable information sources, and are able to influence the attitudes and behaviors of others through their knowledge power, referent power, and high technical competence, also known as EXPERT power.
Expert power is power based upon employees' perception that a manager or some other member of an organization has a high level of knowledge or a specialized set of skills that other employees or members of the organization do not possess.
