Question

While using an example, discuss the effectiveness or lack of effectiveness of a specific power type in a situation.

Answer 1

Let us take the scenario where there are 4 employees and a manager. The legitimate power is with the Manager to take all decisions and guide the action. One of the 4 employees is trained on disaster management and knows how to save lives of people. If suddenly in the office there is fire, then rest of the 3 employees and manager will look forward to 4th employee to help them escape safely. Thus, power shifted to Expert. So, it is a shift from Legitimate power to Expert power.