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The Leadership Traits And Behaviors Of Ben Samuels And Phil Jones

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1) Compare the leadership traits and behaviors of Ben Samuels and Phil Jones. In what ways are they similar? In what ways are they different? Ben Samuels exhibited democratic behaviors while Phil Jones is best described as an autocrat. Ben exhibited many consideration behaviors if one is going to use the Ohio State Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) (Daft, 2015, p. 46). Consideration behaviors exhibited by Ben include listening carefully to problems and establishing mutual trust. By contrast, Phil Jones shows many initiating structure behaviors like getting people to work hard, directing tasks, and ruling with an iron first. There is little similarity between the two, with the exception that they both delegated tasks to their supervisors. However, the differed in how they did this as well, with Ben trusting them to get the job done, but Phil instructing them to establish performance standards and to enforce them. 2) If you were Phil would you continue to act the same way towards the employees? If yes, for what reasons would you act the same? If no, for what reasons would you act differently? There is some value in both Ben’s and Phil’s way of doing things. As a manager, Phil may be on the right track, but he’s on the wrong one as a leader. In Phil’s shoes, I would keep some of his concepts, such as established performance standards and the weekly meetings, but alter many of the behaviors used in attempting to achieve them. Phil could benefit greatly from

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