Nov 2017 Q3 b.

Leadership can be defined as the activity of influencing people to willingly act in a manner to achieve group objectives. It can also be said to be a process of getting others to willingly work to achieve objectives without being coerced.

Power refers to the ability of one person to do something or require another person to act in a certain manner irrespective of the nature or extent of resistance demonstrated by the person from whom the action is required.

Authority is the scope and amount of discretion given to a person to make decisions by virtue of the position he holds in an organization. This right to make decisions is recognized both by the person exercising the right and those over whom that right is exercised.