Assignment #4

BUS520

Andrea Sanders

After evaluating my three assessments I truly agree with all three. I’m in a range of where the plurality of people in leadership roles falls. I’m known to be a good performer in a particular environment, thus the question that arises is how easily you would make the transition should that environment or the surrounding circumstances change. One result describes me as a democratic and free reign leader. Democratic leader will make the final decision; he or she invites other member of the team to contribute to the decision-making process. This not only increase job satisfaction by involving employees or team members I’m what’s going on but it also helps to develop people’s skills. Employees and team members feel in control of their own destiny and so are motivated. I feel my strengths and opportunities are that I’m comfortable using reflective supervision with my staff and have many facets in my daily work. I can expand my knowledge and continue growing by identifying the next challenge. I scored poorly under autocratic. Autocratic leader is an extreme form of transactional leadership, where a leader exerts high level of power over his or her employees or team members. People within the team are given few opportunities for making suggestions, even if these would be in the team or organization’s interest. Autocratic leadership often leads to high level of absenteeism and staff

turnover. Also the team’s output does not benefit from the creativity and experience of all team members, so many of the benefits of teamwork are lost. Understand my strengths and opportunity I feel the Vroom Decision style would suit be better. Reason being the Vroom decision attempts to prescribe how much participation subordinates should be allowed in making decisions. One decision tree is to be used when the manger is