Question

You have just been hired as a consultant for a large company to analyze some project teams and to report on how power is distributed within them. On your first day, you immediately notice that one person is late to the meeting and is dressed a little more casually than the others. In the discussion, this person is the one who initiates the topics, seems to interrupt, and closes the meeting. Based on which principle of power would you say that this person is more powerful than the others

Answer 1

On the basis of the principle, you can say that this person is more powerful than the other, this principle is:

Prerogative

Step-by-step explanation:

• There are six principles of power and one of them is power is prerogative and power can be defined as the ability to influence others.
• The prerogative principle of power states that a person with power can violate rules which others can't break. They don't care for norms.
• In our scenario, that person comes late at office and wear a little more casually which is not taking care of rules and norms. The person initiates the topics, seems to interrupt and closes the meeting; this shows that the person is showing power.