Organisational Behaviour and People Management

Running head: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
Organisational Behaviour and People Management
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Table of Contents
Discussion 1...............................................................................................................................3
1.1 Kinds of Power that a Team Leader can demonstrate......................................................3
1.2 Influence of the kinds of power in alleviating the performance of the project team and
ensure project success.............................................................................................................3
1.3 Benefits of using multiple sources of influence while leading a project team.................3
1.4 Difference between influence and manipulation..............................................................4
Discussion 2...............................................................................................................................4
2.1 Advantages of team comprising of global members........................................................4
2.2 Discussion of advantage in case of complex projects......................................................5
2.3 Challenges faced by a PM to manage a project group over international boundaries.....5
2.4 Steps to mitigate these challenges....................................................................................5
Reference List............................................................................................................................6

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Discussion 1
1.1 Kinds of Power that a Team Leader can demonstrate
The most feasible kinds of power are legitimate power, informational power,
persuasive power, reward power, situational power, and rational power and so on.
1.2 Influence of the kinds of power in alleviating the performance of the project team
and ensure project success
The legitimate power helps a team lead in integrating the members of the project team
by taking complete charge of the teams in terms of activities like performance appraisal,
decisions regarding compensation and so on. Similarly, informational power helps in the
empowerment of the team lead through the process of gathering, distributing as well as taking
complete ownership of the information. Again the team lead also have persuasive power that
would allow him or her to exercise discretionary power and convince the members of the
team to accomplish the goals as he wishes. The reward power also enables the team leader to
modify the budget so that the deserving candidates can be rewarded so as to make them more
motivated.
The situational power comes with the personal discretion of the team lead who can
apply his personal skills to rescue a team from crises. A team lead generally have a high
networking rate which enables him to build significant relationship with the organisation
heads and that allows him to achieve whatever is required by the team. This is the most
essential benefit of rational power in the team (Venkataramani et al. 2016).
1.3 Benefits of using multiple sources of influence while leading a project team
The Six sources of Influence Model can be highlighted and the benefits of individual
sources can be presented in the tabular form.