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This case describes the managerial behavior and behavior effectiveness of Ben Samuel and Phil Jones, each manager apply actions on common scenarios showing the difference on each personality and leadership style.
Ben Samuels is a people (relations)-oriented boss, he shows more empathy when approaching his employees. This type of leader tends to have more tact when it comes to the needs of the people they manage by simply giving them support and motivational encouragement. Phil Jones is a job- oriented leader that is more concerned with productivity and task performance. This type of leader tends to criticize poor work, focus the actions towards efficiency and emphasize on meeting deadlines. Taking the Ohio State leadership …show more content…

Monitoring was never mentioned on his behavior. Also Planning and clarifying was never on his guidance of tasks. Ben trusted his subordinates to be capable of doing everything without his supervision to the point that they would even make decisions that should not have been delegated to them on the first place. On the other hand, Phil is a task-oriented leader. All the decisions that might be considered as deviated from established plans and policies should always be checked with him in order to be clarified. He would have weekly meetings with each supervisor to conduct planning and monitor each department’s performance.
On the Participative and Inspirational Leadership side, it could be said that Ben does not use a proper Participative Leadership. The reason of this might be because he would never supervise his subordinates because he trusted them to do a good job, letting them have all the authority of making a decision. Also called on a Participative Leadership nature level as “Delegation” (Yukl, G, 2006, p.83). Ben used Inspirational Leadership to a point that he emphasised so much on caring for them, that for him was a fact that everyone in the company was loyal and doing their best performance.
Phil used Participative Leadership on an “Autocratic Decision” nature (Yukl, G, 2006, p.82), because even though he has weekly meetings with his subordinates , the decisions

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