If the reward does not bring compliance, those in authority frequently resort to coercion. Children who do not finish dinner are told they can not leave the table until they finish or are threatened with having their rooms. Teen-agers who do not bring up their grades are threatened with having their allowances cut off or rights to the family car revoked (Kahn and Katz, 1966). The student who continues to create a disturbance is coerced with threats of detention, the employee with dismissal; the committee member who does not perform on a high-status committee with the threat of not being reappointed. Coercive power, however, is not just the opposite of reward power. Whereas with reward the individual does what the powerful person desires in hopes of attaining the reward, in a coercive situation the individual usually first attempts to escape the punishment. Coercive power invokes not only coercion but also no possibility of escaping the powerful person's influence.