Team Development-Project Manager Power and XY Theory

One of the Project Managers Roles is Team Development, McGregor’s Theory or Xy Theory of Management defines the type of project manager power as per the following:

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Five Stages of Team Development :

Any team working in a project will pass five main stages from the day the meet each other to the date they leave the job as per the following :

Forming: Where the team  meets and learns about the project,  their roles and responsibility.

Storming: The team begins addressing technical  work and  decisions, it needs collaborative behavior

Norming : The team begins to trust each other as they begin to  work together  and adjust work habits

Performing: The team is interdependent and work through  issues smoothly and effectively

Adjourning: The team completes the work and moves on from the project

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Powers of the Project Manager:

Project managers almost always have difficulty getting  people to cooperate and perform, especially if they are  working in a matrix organization.Therefore, it is important for the project managers to  understand what they can do to get people to perform.

Formal (legitimate): Power based on your position., “Do the work because I have been put in charge!“

Reward ‐ Giving rewards. : “I understand that you have been wanting to participate in  the acceptance testing of this project because of your  performance, I will assign you as part of that team! “

Punishment (coercive):Being able to punish team  g p members. ,“If this does not get done on time, I will remove you from  the group going to Hawaii for the customer meeting!ʺ

Expert : Being the technical or project management  expert., “We should listen to what the project manager suggests.  She is the world authority on this technology!“

Referent ‐ Based on the project managerʹs personality  or knowledge or referring to the authority of someone  in a higher position. “The vice‐president has put me in charge of this project.  We will therefore do it this way!“

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Theory X and Theory Y (Douglas McGregor XY Theory):

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