TRUST

Group Leadership Motivation  is the concept of focus. in this episode the motivation I connected with was when it came to convincing one another for who to vote for to be voted off the Island. We also continue to see how Jon and Jaclyn continue to run this whole alliance and the tribe in general with the most numbers. This puts Jon as a leader making him feel powerful. We see how he connects to the theory of Shutz’s about interpersonal needs. The tribe as well as he feels the need to have others on his side as well as the tribe needed him and Jaclyn to be on the same page to remain as leaders.

Our text to find power as the ability to influence our motivate others. We see that in the past episode by how I just mentioned having Jon and his girlfriend convince others o vote off Josh. We also  see how the reward of the challenge was food which two contestants gave up there reward and shared it with Jon and Jaclyn. This is an example of reward power that our text talks about when someone uses rewards to gain power. We also come across how Reed is hiding an idol from his tribe/alliance and when found by others it convinces people that he’s up to no good. Reeds intentions were to be a leader in Josh’s alliance. I connect this to how in our text expert power becomes assigned to someone who demonstrates a particular skill or special knowledge. At the elimination round this time around Jeremy is voted off.