INTRODUCTION
Case 13 : The New Vice President
Jennifer Treeholm, the former Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs was appointed interim Vice President for a 3 year term at Mid-West University by the newly appointed President of said University. After the interim, the President reluctantly appointed her the role of Vice President of the University.
Jennifer has devoted her entire career to Mid-West U. She was initially hired as an Introductory History instructor. While teaching history, she earned her PH.D and was appointed Assistant Professor and as time progressed she was promoted to Associate Professor due to her popularity and excellent teaching ability. Over time, she would become actively involved in various activities
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They pay attention to the needs of their subordinates and strive to satisfy those needs (Powell, 1990). They seek to develop the ability of their followers and build their self-confidence (Powell, 1990). They create comfortable, friendly organization atmosphere and make their staff feel at ease. This type of leadership normally resulted in higher employee satisfaction and fewer personnel problems in most of the situations and context. People-oriented leadership is totally focused on organizing, supporting, and developing the people on their teams. This is a participatory style and tends to encourage good teamwork and creative collaboration. People-oriented leaders treat everyone on the team equally. They're friendly and approachable, they pay attention to the welfare of everyone in the group, and they make themselves available whenever team members need help or advice.
Q 3: What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? What is the basis for your assessment?
Strength:
Popularity and seniority are the major strengths for Jennifer. She was well liked by others and knew everyone and everything about the campus. As she been building up her teaching experience only with Mid-West U. Therefore, she had maintained her own followers – friends & existing Mid-West U staff, who support and recognized her. Besides, many faculty leaders and former administrators will also
A1. Describe two specific dimensions from your personality profile results that you consider to be strengths.
My leadership style is about how I treat under me with respect, approachable and willing to listen with different suggestions in decision making. I want to have a cooperative teamwork, little supervision, and motivation with professionalism. There is always room for training in developing skills and expertise and encouragement to go above and beyond.
An authoritative leader addresses the end but generally gives workers freedom to innovate, experiment and take risks. The authoritative style works best for organizations that are off track, it helps in creating a new course and fresh long-term vision. The affiliative style strives to keep employees happy to create harmony among. The style has a positive effect on communication. People who like one another a lot talk lot. They share ideas, inspirations leading to flexibility, innovation and risk taking. This style should only be employed when trying to build team harmony. The democratic style allows leaders to build consensus through participation. By spending time getting people’s ideas, a leader is able to build trust, respect and commitment. This style works best when a leader is uncertain about best direction however, it does not make sense if employees are not competent. Pacesetting is a leadership style that expects excellence and self-direction. The leader is obsessive about doing things better and faster, and expects the same of everyone around
Angelica Rae Willis was the distinguished speaker that delivered such a great message. She is a student at A&T with a passion for academic excellence and using software engineering to advance humanity. She has maintained a 4.0 GPA while being a student ambassador to the White House through the White House HBCU All-Stars program, an Apple HBCU Scholar and more in addition to her being the first NC A&T student to become
How their work blend into a larger vision for the organization. This type of leadership style
The Office of Campus Life recently employed two new staff, Kyle Wolf who is now the Campus Life Coordinator and Sandra Gilot-West, Assistant Dean of Students and conduct. As the Campus Life Coordinator, Wolf coordinates events for first year students, transfer students and service learning. Gilot-West’s position as Dean of Students and Conduct requires her to work closely with the Dean of Students Office, the Housing Department and Campus Life. Her job description requires her to handle student conduct and possible consequences if it pertains to a specific case. West officially became a part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University family on August 31, 2015 and Gilot-West joined August 15, 2016. They were welcomed by students, Campus Life, the
Person-oriented leaders are focused on what they do to ensure and satisfy the needs of the
Since day one of my management relationship with Jenny, she has been on a mission toward an ambitious vision of high achievement, critical thinking, self-efficacy, and culturally responsive & responsible teaching and learning. There was a never a day or moment when she was not constantly striving to operate
“She’s one of the most hard-working, dedicated employees we have on staff,” she said. “She consistently goes above and beyond.”
The President of the United States of America is literally the most important person on this planet. Why, you may ask? Well, that’s because, he is “in charge” of the most powerful and influential country of the world. Every decision he makes, in regard to America, can and will affect every other country in some sort of way. Presidents have so much power that every decision they make becomes news. Now, the next logical question would be, where does all this power come from? Who said it was okay for one person to have so much power? And most importantly, does the president of the United States of America actually have so much power all to himself?
Stephens’ education at UAB spans more than two decades, multiple states, and numerous stops along the way.
The styles today are less authoritative and more on trying to get feedback from co-workers. This change is driven by today’s individuals that want to be treated with respect and empowered to be self-driven. Today’s business environment requires managers to constantly evaluate his or her leadership style to maintain the so called competitive edge. Leadership moves through many power roles and how power vs. soft power that relates to managers as they manage people. The types of leaders are described with characteristics, as it relates to each individual. The characteristics styles that leaders show
Leadership styles help an infrastructure that influences organizational factors, processes and expectation, for the sake of facilitation of evidence based practices there is increasing interest in human services field by leaders and managing people Theories of leadership helps to manage human resource capital as an assert for any NGO why to tell this because human make things happen while the money make thing possible.
Jennifer Treeholm’s history with Mid-West enabled her to be an effective leader. She was knowledgeable of the functions of all the occupations because she worked her way up the totem pole. In order to be more marketable to advance, earned her doctorate. In addition, Jennifer seemed to have many qualifications. She gained experience from her leadership roles as the president of the Faculty Senate and other administrative positions. With her responsibility in the Academic Affairs office, she multi-tasked and handled complaints, wrote letters and reports, and oversaw committees. Moreover, she was capable of making her own decisions. However, Jennifer had several weaknesses. She was a
The leader must inspire engage employees, prescribe a common vision, choose a direction to take and encourage them to follow him. The whole team needs to continue and share the same goals and objectives. One could say that this style of leadership is the most effective of all, especially in large organizations. Nelson Mandela was one of the greatest leaders in history, great freedom fighter and