Management and Leadership Style

In this assignment I aim to outline the advantages, disadvantages and overall effectiveness of the different styles of leadership.

Urban Meyer is the head coach for The Ohio State Buckeyes football team. He is 49 years old and was born in Toledo Ohio. He attended University of Cincinnati where he played football. Coach Meyer is married and has three children. Prior to coaching Ohio State he retired from coaching was working as a sports analyst for ESPN. Before retiring and working for ESPN, Coach Meyer was the head coach for the University of Florida. He led the Gators to two BCS championship wins and he held the highest percentages of wins for any active college football coach. (www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com).

According to J. Seyfarth, there are four types of leadership styles: directive, supportive, participative, and achievement-oriented leadership (Seyfarth, 1996). These styles vary from one another, but all may be visible within a school environment. During a recent interview with an elementary school principal, Amy Zilbar, she described her dominate leadership style as supportive (personal communication, April 25, 2013).

Discuss the three types of management styles that are reviewed in your course materials (Scientific Management, Human Relations Management, and Systems Management). Which style do you believe would be the most effective to use in the criminal justice system? What are disadvantages of the other two management styles? Should all three components (police, courts, and corrections) use the same type of management style?

Stacey Feiner once stated, “For those of you who really want to give critical thought to your unique leadership style and foster genuine followership, learn from what’s out there and weave it into something meaningful and authentic.” (Feiner, 2015) For the last two weeks, I have spent time self-analyzing and soul searching to identify the qualities I bring to a leadership role. Many of the core values important to me also align between the participative leadership style and laissez-faire leadership style. These values include working in a team environment, empowering others to make decisions and providing support for those decisions, keeping an open mind to new ideas/suggestions, and being involved with my team members on a daily basis. (Mooney, n.d.) As I learn ways to build on my strengths within these leadership styles, I also need to improve upon my weaknesses to become the well-rounded leader I want to be.

The situation that is occurring between John, Sally, and the other laboratory employees has created a major issue within the laboratory department. Sally is wanting to quit her job because another employee, John, has created what she claims is a hostile work environment. As a laboratory manager, I cannot afford to lose either employee due to staffing shortages. I also do not want my employees in an uncomfortable work atmosphere. I decide that I will use the affiliative leadership style in an attempt to resolve the issues between my employees.

Ricardo Semler is the CEO of highly successful equipment supplier, Semco Inc. and what makes him different from other CEOs is his complete devotion to democratic/participative style of leadership. The participative leader behavior is where leaders would stay in touch with all group members when making decisions and forming targets. This helps in keeping everyone involved by making them feel important but it is a notch above because it works well in situations where goals have a personal meaning to the employees. They must be personal involved in the situation and would thus appreciate a participative style of leadership.

My leadership philosophy is to be approachable, understanding and kind towards others. To make sound decisions under stressful situations. I believe that teamwork, communication and collaboration can resolve any challenge. To continue to grow and be an advocate for childcare to and be a good listener and communicator.To reflect on my process, and rely on mentors for guidance. In addition I will blend different styles of leadership and theories to suit situations. Most importantly I want to be a leader who puts others first.

Considering the contrast between leadership and management provides another way to arrive at a definition of leadership.

Madison Perez is a front desk manager at the Breck Inn in Breckenridge, Colorado. She currently writes the front desk schedule and makes sure that everything is in order while she is gone. She has set up numerous check lists that each employee is responsible for following and making sure that everything gets done in a day. Each task list spread out throughout the day so not only one employee is doing everything but so that every employee is working together like one unit. She is very knowledgeable about every position that is currently at her hotel, so in case of emergencies she can help out and be effective. I know this leader from a previous work opportunity where she was also a front desk manager.

Leadership is a concept most people feel informed enough to discuss, but that few are truly educated sufficiently to comment on. Therefore, it is instructive to consider the leadership styles of people with very different approaches both to better understand the diversity underlying leadership, as well as to appreciate the effective and less effective strategies that underlie different leadership outcomes. For that reason, this essay will consider the styles of two leaders who are less visible in this highly contentious presidential election season: Jill Stein (the Green Party nominee) and Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate. The leadership styles of both are very different, yet they are aligned in the sense that both are outsider candidates struggling to gain momentum from a disaffected electorate. This essay begins with a theoretical discussion of leadership more generally and then turns to the two leaders as case studies, comparing and contrasting them and drawing conclusions about how they both work within the same public sphere and for putatively similar ends (i.e., gaining votes).

Definitively speaking, the phenomenon of leadership is based upon directing, influencing as well as motivating individuals for the purpose of implementing plans as well as running an organization. Leadership styles vary from person to person and is dependent upon the situations that the leader might be faced with (George, Sims, P. & Sims, D., 2007). Basically, the leadership styles have been categorized into six types (i.e. commanding, visionary, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting and coaching leadership styles). All these leadership styles indicate the different personalities of leaders who are visionary, yet influence people in a style that is identified by Paul Hersey, who proposes that leaders must constantly adjust their leading

A key determinant in an organizational success is directly related with the management styles of leadership. According to Parris & Peachey (2013), the key to understanding an organizations success is to study its leaders. A leader’s ability to inspire, motive, and create a strong sense of engagement and commitment to the organization will determine the success or failure in the attainment of goals. Transformational, charismatic, and servant leadership are three styles that organizational leaders might possess. While there is no predetermined best style of leadership, one can describe leadership and management as situational. The overriding goal of any organization is building a high-performing organization which is paramount for short and long term success (DeGraw & Sizoo, 2013). Both the leader and the organization should select the most appropriate style to enhance organizations probability for effectiveness and attainment of desire goals. Studies have shown when organizations have the right leadership in place, an organization can have shared vision that is articulated in a manner where subordinates desire work enthusiastically towards the accomplishment of the goals (Parris & Peachey, 2013).

According to Hanly (2016) many theories of management and styles of leadership exist. In the end, none of them are right and none of them are wrong. Different people respond better to different styles of leadership, however Hanly (2016) explains that to be a truly skilled leader a manager needs to be aware of the needs of their staff and adapt their leadership style to nurture the most productivity in employees. Riley (2016) describes three leadership styles and these are autocratic, paternalistic and democratic. However, Hanly (2016) expresses psychologist Kurt Lewin 1930’3 frame-work and it provided the styles autocratic and democratic but includes laissez-faire as the third leadership style.

There is growing concern about the financial stability of the college, due to the declining number of enrollments into college. In spite of recent training, that was provided to the admissions team, the team continues to struggle with enrollments, and the goals of the organization remain unmet. Over the past year, there has been a steady decrease in the number of enrollments into the college; which has negatively impacted our investors, student body, and employees’ alike. Recently, there have been multiple complaints filed by various employees with allegation of disrespect, unfair treatment, and reports of a hostile work environment, in the admission department.This research serves to examine the relationship between managers’ leadership