Captain Ed Davis Case Study

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The City of Bend, Oregon Government consists of approximately 500 employees across thirteen different divisions. These divisions are Police, Fire, Community Development, Public Works, etc and are all coordinated under the City Manager’s office. Bend’s government style is called a “weak mayor” form of city government, in that the citizens elect a city council, which then elects a mayor from among the council members. The city council and mayor, then hire a City Manager to run the day to day operations of the city. In doing this form of government, the City Manager is not directly accountable to the citizens and can focus on the needs of the city and its employees. At the same time, the City Council can only provide direction to the city manager and is accountable to the citizens. The city employees in this case are led by the city manager as directed by city council. The community leadership environment in this case is established by council to provide direction to the city manager.

In order for an organization or movement to have success, it is extremely important that their leaders are effective. Every leader does not possess the same qualities and skills as the next leader, but that doesn't make them less effective. Each leader may also have a different leadership style than the next person. This paper will define a leader as well as servant leadership and transformational leadership styles. Finally, Eleanor Roosevelt's leadership style will be determined to be either servant leadership, transformational leadership, or both.

Andrew Davis started his career in journalism in Spain, as a freelancer. He then got a staff position with Bloomberg and now is a reporter for Bloomberg in Honk Kong. Although he started his career many years ago, his experience was very interesting to me, since he manage to make the transition from freelance journalist to staff correspondent. He was at the right place at the right moment: Bloomberg was starting its operation in Europe in that period, and, as Davis said, “It was desperately looking for reporters in Spain.” He also has many connections in Europe, where he worked for several years as a correspondent for the news agency.

The Cleveland Browns finally dove into the free agent market by signing linebacker Demario Davis. The two parties agreed to a two year, eight million dollar contract which benefits both sides. Although Davis isn’t a big name free agent, he brings a positive attitude and no off-field baggage.

My hero is Benjamin O Davis Jr he is my hero because, he was in the air force and being in the air force shows a lot of courage and strength. He was born December 18,1912 and lived in Washington D.C. He was married to Agatha Davis. Benjamin O Davis Jr was given the Distinguished Flying Cross and Silver Star .General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. was one of the early Black graduates of the U.S. Military School at West Point in 1932.

As a leader in his capacity, the Sheriff was able to make changes and mold the organization in the manner that fit with his vision for the organization. A transformational leader should be able to provide a vision to change and organization or in this case the community and be able to do so successfully. Transactional theories of leaders must be able to successfully express and implement visions that will enable growth to organizations and individuals. “Knowledge of the structures of the structures and processes f local government is necessary for citizens and professionals to choose wisely among the ways they may govern their communities, but it is not sufficient (Box, 2014, p 134).” As a community, it is our responsibility to be aware of the changes going on and being a part of decision making within the government that they are able to participate in. “Local control means that people in communities decide their futures relatively independently, putting outside pressures in perspective and fighting against closed or elitist political systems (Box, 2014, p 135). The participation of local citizens is imperative to moving along the processes of change that individuals propose to bring forth change and bring forth

Both men took very different paths to accomplishing their charges of change. Chief Davis was very inclusive, engaged various inside and outside groups for input, had a clear goal and vision, and communicated well with both inside and outside groups; he appeared to embody the Statesman style. Chief Fortier did not engage the inside and outside groups well if at all, did not make his goals and vision well known, and by all indications, was not flexible – appeared to embody the Administrator style.

Chief Davis executive style is the administrator, the statesman and the politician. Each style has its own advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of Chief Davis administrator style is he is able to join the department and look at the internal factors that needed to be fixed in the department. He was able to plan for administrative changes, fixing staffing issues, and overall take control over his police department (Cordner, 2016). Chief Davis second advantage was using his ability as a statesman to reach out to the community and create an open dialogue to get to the root of the issue. Having the ability to be a statesman in the department involves being a leader in both the police department and the public. The chief last advantage was

Case Summary: I agree that Chief Davis primarily used the “Statesman” as his executive style and incorporated elements of the “Politician”, but suggest that he utilized parts of the other two styles when appropriate. He had a clear vision of where he wanted to carry the department and fostered an environment whereby innovative thinking and problem-solving were allowed to prosper in the department. He also implemented strategic planning within the department and built a positive relationship between the department, the community, and the local elected officials. However, you erred in saying that Chief Fortier adopted the “Statesman” style in his efforts to facilitate change in his department.

James T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, was able to hold the trust and respect from his ship crew by being honest and “knowing when to let a branch of the company go”(www.realbusiness.co.uk, Schutte). According to Alex Knapp, “Kirk’s closest two advisors… a Vulcan … and a human… [were] frequently at odds with each other, recommending different courses of action and bringing very different types of arguments to bear in defense of those points of view. Kirk sometimes goes with one or the other, or sometimes takes their advice as a springboard to developing an entirely different course of action” (www.roanestate.edu, Knapp). This allowed Captain Kirk to be respected because he had advisors of different worldviews. Coward leaders, unlike

Based on the preponderance of the evidence, the Genetec video surveillance and Probe Team handheld video are consistent with staff report. As Hill refused to exit his cell and comply with the search procedures. Captain Carter gave Hill another chance to comply with his cell being searched, at which time Hill refused. Captain Carter warned Hill if you do not comply with the search, chemical agent will be utilize. Hill who was looking at Captain Carter through the cell window cover the inside of his cell door with a bed sheet and walked away from door. Hill continued to refuse and Captain Carter then deployed one two-second burst using the “cell buster” which did not take its desired affect. Hill was still non compliant therefore, the institutional

When William Bratton was appointed police commissioner of New York City in 1994, crime rate was one of the highest and there were turf wars over jurisdiction. Even with all these drawbacks and pressure, including unchanged budget, Bratton made sure that the safest large city in United States was New York. This was not the first time that he has done something like this, as he has turned around 4 other law-enforcement agencies in the past with NYPD being the latest. Despite having to face challenges like limited resources, opposition from powerful people, demotivated staff etc., he excelled in record time. These turnarounds are called “Tipping Point Leadership” by the authors. This theory suggests that it wouldn’t take much time to make fundamental

Over the course of several decades, the depiction of leadership has changed. What was thought to be innovative and participative or transformational tactic to leadership has replaced the classical and autocratic or authoritarian approach. The step forward that not everything old is bad and not everything new is good was made somewhere along the way. It was determined that different leadership styles suited different situations, and it is the responsibility of each leader to figure out when to make use of an individual leadership approach or style. The two leaders selected for this assignment are Martha Stewart representing an authoritarian leadership style and William Shatner’s television character, James Tiberius Kirk from the starship Enterprise representing a transformational leadership style.

In this study I attempt investigate the diverse styles of administration depicted by distinctive directors whom I have run over amid my time in a few association throughout the years and how their initiative style influence the general improvement of their subordinates. The different elements which specifically impacts ones initiative style, how the administrators need to adjust to diverse styles of authority to be a successful pioneer in an association has been examined in this study. A pioneer ought to examine the circumstance and choose what sort of authority style would be suitable to get great results.