...Abstract In leadership there are many methods to triumph over a task or challenge. In the first case study there is a significantly high failure rate among students. The leader is tasked by redesigning the curriculum, assessments, and participation. With this case study a situational leadership approach is done. This essay will describe the self assessment of the writer situational leadership style and the application of situational leadership theory. Situational leadership plays an important role for researchers in organizations to effectively evaluate at leader in a certain position. Jesuıno (2005) asserted that, "several definitions of leadership excess partly that in addition to the concept of leader leadership there should be understating the concept of power and authority", (as cited in Furtado, Batista, & Francisco, 2011, p.1048) In a situational leadership model there are four leadership styles that are defined; telling, selling, participating, and delegating. For the writer is important to understand what type of leader he is so that he will be able to lead effectively and provide the best leadership possible. For the writer, by understanding the different situational leadership roles the writer will be able to incorporate different skills and knowledge to any task and or challenge that is needed by the organization or company. This essay will describe the self assessment of the writer's situational leadership style and application of situational leadership theory...
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...Situational Leadership Theory and Its Contributions to Effective Organizational Change In like manner to humans, organizations change and grow. For instance, the Management Team consulting business identified seven stages of change: New Venture, Expansion, Professionalization, Consolidation, Diversification, Institutionalization, and Decline (“Stages of,” n.d.). Successful transition happens only with appropriate infrastructure; this includes leadership. How does an organization ensure that it can move forward proactively and positively in the face of these organizational changes? In other words, what type of leadership will help an organization most effectively navigate these changes in whichever stage they find themselves? Two theories of leadership provide possibilities: Trait and Situational. However, situational leadership theory (SLT) is the better one for addressing changes and challenges in an organization, due to its focus on the relationship between leaders and employees. Ironically, trait leadership studies can provide valuable insight into the leader component in SLT. This paper begins with an exploration of the basic tenets of the two theories. From this foundation, it explores the importance of the leadership-employee relationship, advantages of SLT, limits/challenges of SLT, and recommendations on how best to utilize SLT for organizational change. Basic Tenets of the Two Theories Trait and Situational theories of leadership provide two different views into...
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...Situational leadership (Submitted to Journal of Management Development) RESEARCH PAPER An exploratory content analysis of Situational Leadership * Mark A. Papworth Primary Care Psychology North Tyneside Primary Care Trust Wallsend Health Centre, Tyne & Wear, UK m.a.papworth@ncl.ac.uk Derek Milne Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Newcastle University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK d.l.milne@newcastle.ac.uk George Boak MA Leading Innovation and Change York St. John University York, UK g.boak@yorksj.ac.uk KEY WORDS: RUNNING HEAD: WORD COUNT: * leadership; supervision; effectiveness Situational leadership 4,100 Correspondence to: Mark A. Papworth, Wallsend Health Centre, The Green, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear NE28 7PB, UK. E-mail: m.a.papworth@ncl.ac.uk; Tel/Fax: 0191 2205932 1 of 27 Situational leadership An exploratory content analysis of Situational Leadership ABSTRACT Purpose Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership model is widely utilised, but it has limited empirical support. The model is investigated in the present study through content analysis of the transcripts of successful supervision sessions. Design/methodology/approach Eight transcripts of successful supervision interviews were subjected to in-depth content analysis, to test the prediction (from Situational Leadership) that successful leadership interactions would vary systematically with experience. The supervisees consisted of a novice, four training therapists, and three postgraduate therapist...
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...differentiated itself from other institutions in the market with a range of innovative services and attractive products including extended weekday banking hours as well as Saturday service, several bonus interest options and Cash-card access to non-resident foreign currency accounts that were often used by Sri Lankan expatriates to transfer funds to their dependents. Customers who had always been waiting for better interest returns for their deposits and with their trust to the public image of Dr. Kotelawela wasted no time and became customers of this newly established financial institution. Seylan soon became a well known brand in the industry with rapid growth and paying the highest interest returns to depositors. As per the company’s ‘The Case Study’ (2009) report, in its first partial year of operations, Seylan reported an after tax profit of Rs. 11.3 Million ending at 31st December 1988. Over the next 17 years, the Bank grew at an unprecedented pace, with assets totaling Rs. 113.6 Billion by the end of 2005. Profits in the same period fluctuated to some degree but followed the same overall rapid trajectory, reaching Rs. 687 Million (after taxes) in the 2005 financial year. Signs of mismanagement: Sri Lanka’s banking industry was already competitive when Seylan bank came to being. The then management was over-ambitious and had a...
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...1.0 Introduction A problem of leadership is clearly identified in the case study concerning the company OJuice. According to Bennis and Nanus (1985) a cited in Silverthorne and Wang (2001), in most of the case, a lack of leadership or an inefficient leadership model leads to high risks of failure for an organisation. The management problem relevant to OJuice is based on a leadership problem, which conducts to incomprehension between leader and employees, but also to an absence of creativity, which makes the company uncompetitive and outdated compare to the competitors. McLaurin (2006) defined the notion of leadership as the action of interact with minimum two people in a group to organise and fix a situation related to the wants and visions of the members. Daft and Noe (2001) as cited in McLaurin (2006) explained that this notion involves influence and guidance on members to reach objectives but only if the decision-making reflects the leader’s and members’ desire. If not, Anderson (1992) as cited in Silverthorne and Wang (2001) claimed that the leaders who do not understand their employees are called “non-adaptive leaders” and are less efficient in fast moving and growing structures than “highly adaptive leaders” (p.400). Hersey and Blanchard (1982) as cited in Blank, Weitzel and Green (1990) argued that “less adaptive leaders” don’t help to create an ambiance where members respect them and are able to work together, which, reported by Terry (1960) as cited in Hambleton and...
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...Arthur G. Jago University of Missouri—Columbia Leadership depends on the situation. Few social scientists would dispute the validity of this statement. But the statement can be interpreted in many different ways, depending, at least in part, on what one means by leadership. This article begins with a definition of leadership and a brief description of 3 historically important theories of leadership. The most recent of these, contingency theories, is argued to be most consistent with existing evidence and most relevant to professional practice. The Vroom, Yetton, and Jago contingency models of participation in decision making are described in depth, and their work provides the basis for identifying 3 distinct ways in which situational or contextual variables are relevant to both research on and the practice of leadership. Keywords: participation, situational leadership, normative models, contingency theory T he term leadership is ubiquitous in common discourse. Political candidates proclaim it, organizations seek it, and the media discusses it ad nauseum. Unfortunately, research on leadership has done little to inform these endeavors. As Bennis and Nanus (1985) have noted, Literally thousands of empirical investigations of leaders have been conducted in the last seventy-five years alone, but no clear and unequivocal understanding exists as to what distinguishes leaders from nonleaders, and perhaps more important, what distinguishes effective leaders from ineffective...
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...A CRITICAL REVIEW OF SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP THEORY Situational Leadership Theory is arguably the most widely known and practiced theory of leadership and managerial effectiveness. In this essay, the origins and fundamentals of the theory are considered, as well as the available evidence that supports or contradicts the its validity. Background Situational Leadership Theory as presented by Hersey and Blanchard developed from the work of J. W. Reddin’s 3-Dimensional Management Style Theory. That theory hypothesizes the importance of a manager’s relationship orientation and task orientation in conjunction with effectiveness (Reddin 1967, 8). From the interplay of these dimensions, Reddin proposes a variety of management styles and theorizes that effectiveness as a manager can be explained as a function of matching a leader’s style to a specific situation. However, his theory does not specify whether certain situational characteristics could be unequivocally incorporated into a predictive model (Vecchio 1987, 444). From Reddin’s suggestion that a leader’s effectiveness varies according to style, Hersey and Blanchard proposed a life-cycle theory of leadership. According to this theory, degrees of task orientation and relationship orientation are to be examined in conjunction with the maturity of a follower or group of followers in order to account for leader effectiveness (Hersey and Blanchard 1969, 29). The main principle of the life-cycle theory is...
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...Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Business Management LEADERSHIP AND ORGANISATIONS Name: Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan Student ID: 23045438 Word count: 3596 Module Leader UK : Janette Hurst Module Leader Singapore: Jasmine Puah Table of Contents Introduction 3 Trait Approach to Leadership Theory 3 Advantages of Trait Approach 4 Disadvantages of Trait Approach 4 Situational and Contingency Approach 6 Fiedler’s Contingency Theory: 7 Advantages of Fiedler’s Contingency Model 9 Disadvantages of Fiedler’s Contingency Model 9 Harsey-Blanchard Situational Leadership 10 Advantages and Disadvantages of Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership Model 12 Transformational Approach to Leadership 13 Advantages and Disadvantages of Transformational Approach to Leadership 15 Similarities of different approaches 15 Differences of Different Approaches 16 Conclusion 17 References 19 Appendix 22 Appendix 1: Zaccaro’s Model to Trait Approach 22 Appendix 2 : LPC Scale 22 Appendix 3: Fielder's Contingency model 23 Appendix 4: Harsey and Blanchard Situational Model 23 Appendix 5: Transformational Approach to Leadership 24 Introduction The purpose of this essay is to discuss different approaches to leadership. Different approaches to leadership have been described using different models along with charts and tables to provide a better understanding on each model. It also states the advantages and disadvantages of each approach and how the disadvantage...
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...------------------------------------------------- Task 1: Organization and Leadership Analysis Assessment Code: C200 Student Name: Student ID: Date: Student Mentor Name: Table of Contents Organization Overview 3 An organizational overview in a non-profit description of a job is an analysis of all the key shareholders of the organization. It would ideally be a catalogue of all necessary information that would help an external party to assess the organizational fit in a better way, and understand whether he/she is in total sync with the organizational goals, and the other beneficiaries(Ko\vsnarov\'a, 2013). Generally an overview is a summary of- 3 Organization Description 4 Leadership Practices 5 Relationship Between Leadership and Organizational Culture 7 SWOT Analysis 8 For the betterment of our understanding of the given topic, we are conducting a SWOT analysis of the organization. 8 Organizational Strength 8 Organizational Weaknesses 8 Organizational Opportunities 9 Organizational Threats 9 Leadership Evaluation 10 In this context I have chosen the situational leadership theory that according to me it was the ideal form of leadership being portrayed by Mark Benioff, for his organization. It is extremely relevant in this context and we can attribute the overall success of the leadership owing to the leadership qualities shown by him. 10 Leadership Strengths 10 Leadership Weaknesses 12 Recommendations for Leadership Development 13 References 15 Organization Overview ...
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...Case Study Analysis Paper 3: A Tale of Two Coaches 1) Through your review of Fiedler's contingency model, would you say that the coaches are matched to their situation? Why or why not? Has this had an impact on their effectiveness? I believe that Coach Knight and Coach K are matched to their situation according to Fiedler’s Contingency Model. Contingency theory suggests that situations can be characterized in terms of three factors: leader–member relations, task structure, and position power (Northouse, 2010). 2) Using Situational Leadership II, provide evidence from the cases that show whether or not there is usage of the leadership styles by the two coaches, and adopt a position on whether or not you think the coaches are effective from this theoretical perspective. In: Business and Management Coach Analysis Case Analysis Paper 3: A Tale of Two Coaches Bonnie Hyatt Grand Canyon University Leadership Style and Development LDR-600 Kelly Jensen, MBA April 30, 2013 Case Analysis Paper 3: A Tale of Two Coaches Fiedler’s contingency theory is a “leader-match theory” (Northhouse, 2013, p. 135). It attempts to match the style of the leader with the situation and develop a match between the two. Coach Knight and Coach Krzyzewski (Coach K) were both effective in this leadership style because they produced winning teams. Coach Knight is a task driven leader who sores low on the least preferred co-worker scale (LPC). His primary focus was accomplishing the tasks...
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...26/04/2015 Leadership: Understanding its Global Impact Lecture 7 1. The Integrative approach to understanding leadership: Charismatic, Transformational, Servant 2. Application of Leadership theory to case study – Kevin Rudd What to study for next TEST 2? • Lecture notes - Week 4 to Week 7 • Book Format of Test? • Multiple questions – 10 questions • Subjective question- 1 question • 40 minutes • Will start at 9.15 am / 2.15 pm 1 26/04/2015 QUIZ • How does situational leadership theory build on behavioural leadership theory? 4 Suggested answer: Example of Situational building on Behavioural is Hersey’s model Situational leadership theory builds on the behavioural theory as it introduces the idea that the most appropriate leadership style should be a combination of: • task • relations-oriented behaviour And that key factors in the work situation will determine the emphasis on task and relations behaviour in each combination We now have four possible leadership styles: (See diagram next slide) 5 Situational theory expanding on Behaviour/Style theory Leadership behaviour/style orientation Task Relations Both should be either High/Low – depending on follower maturity 6 2 26/04/2015 Example of Situational building on Behavioural is Hersey’s model Q: What is the right amount of emphasis on task & relations? Ans: It depends on the situation Q: According to Hersey...
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...Case Study Analysis Paper 3 Grand Canyon University: LDR-600 May 7, 2014 Fiedler's Contingency Model In order to understand the performance of a leader, the leader needs to be placed in different situations, which can show their ability to lead. “Effective leadership is contingent on matching a leader’s style to the right setting” (Niorthouse, 2013, p. 123). By the use of the contingency theory, the subordinate’s reaction can affect the way the leader will teach and react. This theory gives better understanding of how the leaders interact with the employees, and if they will be effective in specific situations. “Contingency theory matches the leader and the situation, but does not demand that the leader fit every situation” (Northouse, 2013, p. 127). The styles are divided into task-motivated and relationship-motivated. Coach Knight and coach Krzyzewski (coach K) use in this case study, are proven effective in their leadership styles and approach to their team members, because they both have winning teams. According to Fiedler’s Least Preferred Coworker (LPC) scale, coach Knight will have low score and be identified as a task motivated leader who “will be effective in both very favorable and very unfavorable situations—that is, in situations that are going along very smoothly or situations that are out of control” (Northouse, 2013, p. 125). Coach K will score high on LPC scale which describes him as a leader who is relationship motivated, and who will be...
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...Situational Leadership GCU: LDR 802 8/7/12 Abstract Two situational leadership self assessments were completed to determine the authors situational leadership style. The discovered leadership style will be applied to a scenario in which a change to curriculum is being implemented in a school. Situational Leadership According to Northouse (2010) situational leadership calls for different types of leadership depending on the situation the leader finds themselves in. Northouse (2010) also states that “the essence of situational leadership demands that leaders match their style to the competence and commitment of the subordinates.” The idea is that leaders must be able to adapt depending on the situation and their subordinates. The purpose of this paper, in part, is to analyze the results of two situational leadership assessments to determine the author’s leadership style. The leadership style determined will be used within a scenario that involves changes to a course’s curriculum. The implementation of the changes will be hypothesized using the author’s determined leadership style. The author’s discovery of their situational leadership style is very important. It will enable the author to have a better understanding of how to lead in different situations. The author will also be implementing changes within courses at their school so the scenario will also provide some insight for those changes. Summary of Self Assessments The first assessment...
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...Leadership Scenario BMGT364 March 28, 2014 Abstract This paper explores two leadership theories and two motivational theories and applies each to the case study of Alex and Stephanie. Alex and Stephanie are employees at the same company that has different attitudes about his and her employment. This attitude is directly related to his and her respective managers who practice different styles of leadership and motivation. The paper is a compellation of four students and each student's perspective of the case study as it applies to his or her theory. Each student is given an individual theory and asked to explain the theory in detail and input his or her personal thought regarding the theory and how it applies to the case study of Alex and Stephanie. The theories discussed are the situation and path-goal leadership and expectancy and reinforcement motivation theories. While these are four of the many theories, these are the four which the writers felt applied to the case study. Keywords: leadership theory, motivation theory Leadership Scenario Leadership and motivation are integral parts of management. The successful observations of management to assess or modify his or her style of motivating and leading is the key to reaching the mission and vision statement of the organization. The theories discussed are the situation and path-goal leadership and the expectancy and reinforcement motivational theories. In understanding and analyzing...
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...CASE STUDY “When we examine [organizational] culture and leadership closely, we see that they are two sides of the same coin; neither can really be understood by itself. On the one hand, cultural norms define how a given nation or organizations will define leadership – who will be promoted, who will get the attention of followers. On the other hand, it can be argued that the only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture; that the unique talent of leadership is their ability to understand and work with culture; and that it is an ultimate act of leadership to destroy culture when it is viewed as dysfunctional”. Executive Summary Many researchers have tried to explore the relationship between leadership style and organizational culture but they have not been able examine these two factors together. Hence they could not establish any relationship between the two factors. This case study tries to explore these two factors together to identify the cause and effect relation between the two variables. This case study would be trying to develop theoretical patterns from a critical literature review. Firms are focusing more on improving the organizational culture and motivational level of employees but improving the leadership that influences greatly affect both these elements. It is believed that internally satisfaction among the employees leads to better utilization of resources by the firm. This internal satisfaction in employees can only...
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