Q: You are a project manager for a company that is changing their feedback reporting process. To facilitate this change, you create a form for each team member to fill out every week. You send out a reminder email two days before the form is due. Which of the six sources of influence does this scenario demonstrate?
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Q: As a project manager, you work for a corporation that is revamping its procedure for reporting comments. You make a form that each team member must complete once a week in order to help with this transition. Two days before to the form’s deadline, you send out a reminder via email. This situation illustrates which of the six sources of influence?
- Personal ability
- Personal motivation
- Social motivation
- Structural ability
Explanation: This example serves to illustrate the kind of source of influence that is referred to as “Personal Motivation.” The project manager can influence individual motivation and behavior by having each member of the team fill out a form once each week and sending out a reminder email two days before the form is due. The objective is to encourage members of the team to offer feedback regularly by developing a method that is both organized and timely, therefore highlighting the significance of the contributions they make to the feedback reporting process.
