Achieving Project Management Success Using Virtual Teams

APPENDIX 4B MOTIVATION INSTRUMENT

Of the three choices given, select the one that most closely approximates your own approach to each situation.

  1. Assume that you are working on a project. You are meeting with the project manager, who is going to give you some feedback on your work thus far. Ideally, you would prefer that this feedback reflect how:

    1. Cooperative or helpful you are

    2. Your work contributed to project success

    3. Your performance on assigned tasks was received in terms of its quality

  2. On a project, do you tend to have a:

    1. Tendency to take risks, believing that risks typically are opportunities

    2. Moderate tolerance for risks, taking only calculated risks

    3. Low tolerance for risk, avoiding risks if possible

  3. Assume that you are working on a project and have a conflict with another team member over a technical issue. In this situation, do you typically resolve the conflict through a:

    1. Competing or win lose type of approach

    2. Collaborating or win win type of approach

    3. Compromising or giving in for the short term type of approach

  4. Do you prefer to work on a project performing roles that involve:

    1. Interdependent tasks in which you often work with other team members

    2. Tasks for which you are primarily responsible for the outcome, from beginning to end

    3. Interactions with stakeholders both internal and external to the project

  5. Assume that you are in a meeting with your project team, and it is time for the team to make a decision. In this situation, do you tend to:

    1. Take the lead...

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