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Case Analysis: Superstar Leaders Dr Shekhawat is an exceptional doctor, who strives for excellence in everything he is involved in. He competes with everyone else in his profession, including himself to redefine the excellence level. He is revered as a magician in his profession by both co-workers as well as his patients. All patients wanted to be treated by him and everyone treats him as the ideal doctor image, and compares every other doctor who works at Dausa Kidney Hospital(DKH) with him. In fact, a lot of talented consultants and interns comes to DKH, mainly because of their aspirations to work with him, the experience they can gain with him and the weight of that experience in their future jobs. He indeed is a superstar doctor and …show more content…

That is the primary reason why Dr Shekhawat, even though being admired as the epitome of excellence in urology, is not a very successful leader.His organisation is a very hierarchy oriented rigid structure, with Him being the most powerful, with Dr. Rajput and Mr Reddy being next in power. Dr. Rajput, is a good mentor and accommodates the concerns and suggestions of his subordinates, and hence being admired as a good leader in his department. His departments attrition rate is much lower compared to Urology department, because of the level of compassion and mutual trust they show with each other. It is a common word in the hospital that, “Shekhawat aur Reddy ki marzi ki bina yahan patta bhi nahin chalta”. This clearly shows that both Dr Shekhawat and Mr Reddy are very hierarchy oriented masters, and everyone else will have to obey their orders without questioning. Dr Shekhawat also treats even experienced consultants who are newly joining in his organisation as a fresher without any prior experience, and he allows only those whom he feels that as capable, to even do minor surgeries. This shows that trust does not exist between him and his subordinates, which , according to Fiedler’s theory, makes him a poor leader in such a highly intellect oriented organisational situation. This is the primary reason for the high attrition from his department.

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