Can you clarify the difference between Formal vs Coercive power. If I am a project manager and my team members follow what I tell them because you have the authority to provide negative feedback in their performance appraisal, would this be coercive power or formal.
Formal since as a project manager, performance appraisal would be part of my responsibility? (Or would this not be correct, since the PMBOK assumes unless told that we are working in a matrix organization, and the Project manager wouldn't be doing that but the functional manager)?
Or would fear known or unknown to me but felt b team members automatically make this coercive?
Please help clarify how to separate the two since I can see them overlap in scenarios. Thanks