PM power qn

Submitted by BK on Mon, 04/22/2013 - 10:58

 


 

You are the blue-eyed boy of your vice chairman who appreciates the way in which you work in projects. She also consults you during performance appraisals. This helps you in managing interpersonal relationships with your team members, because you have the following power:

 

 

Choice 1

Legitimate

 

 

Choice 2

Expert

 

 

Choice 3

Penalty

 

 

Choice 4

Referent

 

I thought the ans would be choice 4, but correct ans is choice 3.

can anybody explain?

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sayhitojason

Mon, 04/22/2013 - 13:56

 Reason is because you have an influence over the performance appraisal of your team members. As such, you have the power to provide feedback to the vice chairman which will have an impact. So if you provide a bad feedback, you penalise the team member and hence you have penalty power.

sspawar

Mon, 04/22/2013 - 15:12

 Here I think the key point to understand is this:

Type of power should be assessed on the basis of the type of relation between employees and manager.

here if employees were referring to manager --- then it would be referent

here employees are being headed with the fear of appraisal --- hence penalty

BK

Mon, 04/22/2013 - 15:46

 thanks.. :)