Managing organizations!! Identify what type of Power is being used by the follow

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Managing organizations!!
Identify what type of Power is being used by the following. (Legitimate, Reward, Coervice, Expert or Referent) Choose most Relevant.
1. You Give a bonus to employees 2. You draw on your expertise and education to solve a problem in your work team that was holding up progress. 3. You write a formal memo detailing a series of costly mistakes an employee has made recently; you give one copy to the employee and put one in their personnel file. 4. You analyze data you’ve collected that highlists some inefficiencies in work processes you manage for the company. 5. You start a practice of giving chocolate yo employees who have shown good intiative on a project. 6. You have lunch with new employee who says she aspires to achieve what you’ve accomplished in your five years with the company. 7. Acting in your role as plant supervisor, you institute changes to the reporting relationships of employees throughout the plant
Managing organizations!!
Identify what type of Power is being used by the following. (Legitimate, Reward, Coervice, Expert or Referent) Choose most Relevant.
1. You Give a bonus to employees 2. You draw on your expertise and education to solve a problem in your work team that was holding up progress. 3. You write a formal memo detailing a series of costly mistakes an employee has made recently; you give one copy to the employee and put one in their personnel file. 4. You analyze data you’ve collected that highlists some inefficiencies in work processes you manage for the company. 5. You start a practice of giving chocolate yo employees who have shown good intiative on a project. 6. You have lunch with new employee who says she aspires to achieve what you’ve accomplished in your five years with the company. 7. Acting in your role as plant supervisor, you institute changes to the reporting relationships of employees throughout the plant
Managing organizations!!

1. You Give a bonus to employees 2. You draw on your expertise and education to solve a problem in your work team that was holding up progress. 3. You write a formal memo detailing a series of costly mistakes an employee has made recently; you give one copy to the employee and put one in their personnel file. 4. You analyze data you’ve collected that highlists some inefficiencies in work processes you manage for the company. 5. You start a practice of giving chocolate yo employees who have shown good intiative on a project. 6. You have lunch with new employee who says she aspires to achieve what you’ve accomplished in your five years with the company. 7. Acting in your role as plant supervisor, you institute changes to the reporting relationships of employees throughout the plant

Explanation / Answer

There was an incident when I was the project manager of a power plant installation project for one of the client. I had a team of around 50 people working with me which comprised Electricians, Workers, and Engineers etc. The project was in a very critical stage of commissioning and team was working under tremendous pressure to complete the project within required timeframe. One day, there was a technical problem with the transformer which stopped our testing work at site. I called one of my subordinate who was looking after the transformer and asked him to rectify the transformer as we were running on a very thin deadline. I pressurized him using my legitimate power to stay in the company late in the evening to finish his work. Also I promised him a good rating if he completes his work successfully. This way I also used reward power. Because of this, he was able to complete his work within 3 days and project successfully got commissioned within the deadlines.

If I have to reflect back on that decision now, I will like to use referent power and reward power and avoid using my legitimate power. Referent power motivates people to give their best. Referent power fosters loyalty and admiration.

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