1. Explain how Chief Wearing can exhibit a transformational leadership style in his role as police chief.
2. Describe the environment facing Chief Wearing in terms of leader-member relations, task structure, and position power. Using Fiedler's model, what leadership style do you think is most appropriate given the situation you just described? Does this style match Chief Wearing's?
3. If you were Chief Wearing, how might you use the information you learned in this chapter to enhance the diversity of the police force?
When Melvin Wearing obtained the Chief of Police position, morale was terrible, and communication between the chief's office and the officers was often through union grievances. Wearing wanted to show his pride in police work. He upgraded the department's technology, raised standards in the training academy, and increased the department's diversity. The department has earned four national and international awards for community policing.