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After working as a manufacturing engineer for eight years, Victoria Bender recently took on a new job with a competitor. In this new role, she would be in charge of a small manufacturing division. Her new boss told her that the division was underperforming and he was counting on her to “turn it around.” Ms. Bender spent the first few weeks of her job observing operations from a far. She realized that most of the problems were due to a lack of compliance with standard operating procedures. If she could get her staff to follow these procedures, she was sure performance would improve. She decided to usereferent andreward power to get staff to comply with standard operating procedures. Explain how Ms. Bender might go about using these two types of power. For each, be sure to describe the type of power and provide a specific example of how Ms. Bender could use them. Your answer should be no more than 150 words.