Question

Managers, for instance, have personal power because they control your pay, your work assignments, your hiring and firing, and your evaluations. In contrast, expert and referent are forms of personal power, which you possess independent of your position or job.
True or False?

Answer 1

Answer:

False

Explanation:

Managers exercise legitimate and coercive power. Their power is legitimate since it is lawful owing to the job position and their tasks and duties. It is coercive since it induces the subordinates to perform their tasks in a certain way and at times subject them to performance pressure so as they work efficiently.

Experts and referent represent personal or individual power possessed by an individual, independent of the job position he/she occupies. These may arise more out of an individual's own knowledge and information one possesses or on account of personal traits and do not represent a power which has been delegated.

Such powers may collide when an individual is promoted and when required to manage those, who were earlier his/her colleagues.