

Chegg Guided Solutions for Management 11th Edition: Chapter 17.C2

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    She shows some traits based on early leadership theories. University of Iowa studies would call it autocratic style which relies on centralized decision making and involves little participation from the employees.

    University of Michigan Studies would find elements of production oriented leadership which focuses on tasks. The Managerial Grid would find it closer to task management with rating of 9 for high concern for production and rating of 1 for concern for people.

    Fiedler Contingency Model would find elements of task oriented leadership style. Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership Theory would call it Telling style when a leader has high task and low relationship orientation and in which leader tells people what to do.

    Path goal theory would call it Directive leaders who let their follower know what needs to be done and how it needs to be done.

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    If one removes her penchant for publicly humiliating crews and heaping profanity, one would find elements of high task orientation, telling and directive style of leadership. But when theories used terms like task orientation, telling, directive style etc, they did not quite have a leader like her in mind. Most of the studies would drop this example form their studies as an “extreme observation.

    Whatever her quality and leadership style might have been, it was far overshadowed by her publicly belittling and humiliating Navy crew and heaping profanity. She could hardly be called a leader by any standard.

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