Questions and Answers of Leadership in organizations

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I recommend reflecting on your experience with this chapter’s exercise before continuing. You can reflect about anything you found relevant, but here are some questions you may want to
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We’ve approached only personal leadership so far—developing skills to lead yourself and avoid being reactive. Before we work on leading others, reflect on what leadership means to you now. Some
We’ve discussed emotions, motivations, and self-awareness without defining them. Since Plato and before and in many cultures, people have connected emotional awareness and skill with effective
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I recommend reflecting on your experience with this chapter’s exercise before continuing. You can reflect about anything you found relevant, but here are some questions you may want to consider:How
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What should Bill do to improve store performance?
Were these decisions appropriate ones for introducing participation into the department?
What are the dominant motives for each candidate?
What are the implications of these traits for the success of each candidate if selected for the general manager position?
Should Susan recommend one of these candidates for the position or look for other candidates?
What is the usual leadership situation in the auto repair shop (consider the nature of the task, subordinates, and environment)?
Describe Alan’s typical leadership style and evaluate whether it is appropriate for the leadership situation?
Describe Alan’s leadership style during the flood and evaluate whether it is appropriate for the leadership situation?
Identify effective behaviors by Alan after the flood subsided?
How should Alan behave toward his employees in the future?
Explain the board’s decision to purchase the software from Standard?
How much power relative to this decision did Mary, Jack, and the president of Standard Software possess, and what type of power was it?
What could Mary have done to gain more influence over the decision?
How much of each type of power does Bill have at this time?
What influence tactics could be used in this situation to influence Sally? Explain what you would say to Sally in the process of using these tactics?
What theories from the chapter are relevant for analyzing the case?
Evaluate Ed’s behavior as a manager, and identify effective and ineffective actions?
What should Dan say or do now?
What did Betty do wrong prior to the meeting and what could have been done to avoid missing the deadline?
What did Betty do wrong in the meeting itself and what could have been done to make the meeting more effective?
What should Don have done to be more effective?
Describe the leadership behaviors Ron used and their influence on the attitudes and behavior of the team members?
Compare this cross-functional project team to a self-managed operations team, and identify similarities and differences in the leadership roles for them?
Explain the success of Costco in terms of the three performance determinants in flexible leadership theory (efficiency, adaptation, and human capital)?
Explain how Costco is able to provide higher compensation to its employees and still be successful in the use of a low price competitive strategy?
What was done to improve efficiency, adaptation, and human relations, and how did Ghosn resolve the potential tradeoffs among these performance determinants?
Use relevant leadership theories to analyze the behavior of the CEO and describe his influence on the company?
What traits and skills can help to explain Ghosn's effective leadership?
What effective change management practices were used at Nissan?
To what extent do other leadership theories help to explain Ghosn's success (e.g., transformational, charismatic, servant leadership, etc.)?
What cross-cultural issues may have been important for changing Nissan?
Describe Burton’s leadership behavior?
Was Burton a charismatic leader in the company at this time?
What dysfunctional aspects of charismatic leadership were displayed by Burton?
How can theories on ethical leadership and leader influence on organizational culture be used to explain the unethical practices at Enron?
What can be done to reduce this type of unethical leadership in the future?
What forms of gender discrimination did Laura experience?
Is there anything Laura could have done to overcome the obstacles she encountered?
What could the President have done to create equal opportunity in this company?
Identify strengths and weaknesses in leadership development at Federated Industries?
What types of changes are most likely to improve leadership development at Federated Industries?
What additional information is needed to make a good report to the CEO?
What mistakes were made in using participation, and what could have been done to avoid the difficulties the manager encountered?
Were the two decisions suitable ones for a group decision procedure?
What steps should Paul take now to deal with the problem?
What actions could Paul have taken to prevent the problem?
Evaluate the change leadership provided by the CEO?
Identify subsequent actions by Richard that were effective for implementing change in the organization?
Why did Richard fail in his first attempt to implement change?
Compare the leadership behavior in this case with the leadership behavior in the preceding case?
What effective leadership behaviors did Colonel Novak exhibit?
If you were the manager of this plant, what would you do to achieve both high employee satisfaction and high performance?
Compare the two managers in terms of their influence on employee attitudes, short-term performance, and long-term plant performance?
Describe and compare the managerial behavior of Ben and Phil. Describe each manager’s use of specific task and relations behaviors. How much does each manager use participative or inspirational
What should Steve do to become more effective as a manager?
What specific things did Steve do wrong and what should have been done?