Question

Joanna Mills has recently been promoted to the position of a project manager at Palmer, Inc., a software development firm. As a project manager, she now has the authority to delegate work, provide supervision and feedback, and monitor employee performance. Since her promotion, she has been preparing herself to guide her sub-ordinates in different project activities. However, she feels that the employees do not pro-actively approach her for help. Which of the following, if true, would best explain this situation?
A) Joanna has several years of experience in working on software programs.
B) The sole criterion for Joanna's promotion was her effectiveness in meeting individual targets.
C) Employees identify with Joanna because she successfully rose from the position of a programmer to that of a manager.
D) The managers who promoted her believed that her approachable nature will be a key factor in improving team performance.
E) The company follows a 360-degree performance evaluation system.

Answer 1

Answer:

B) The sole criterion for Joanna's promotion was her effectiveness in meeting individual targets.

Explanation:

Joanna wants to guide her sbordinates in executing various projects but they are not proactively coming to her for advise. This indicates that before her promotion she was very good at doing work individually and most likely did not work collectively to achieve results.

Based on this background tlshe was promoted on the basis of her individual efforts and her staff are not comfortable coming to her for guidance, since this was not her style before promotion.

Her approachable nature in building a team would not have been a criteria, if not it would have resulted in greater request for guidance from subordinates.