A junior level manager was overheard to say: "This difference between managers and leaders is just silliness. It is just an artificiality created by scholars so that they have something to argue about." Question #2: Defend or refute that assertion. Figures 13-3 and 13-4 provide some unique insight from long ago. Before you assail the credibility of the study. I should mention that Administrative Science Ouarterly (ASQ) is considered by most scholars to be THE joumal. Take a moment to carefully scrutinize that material. Can we agree that a leaders' time is a valuable and scarce resource? Perhaps the most non-fungible resource available? (If you want to debate that, I'd point you towards Henry Mintzberg's book: The Nature of Managerial Work for starters.) Let us call this concept Point #1" for the moment. One study of 845 American workers revealed that 70% of the respondents agreed with the statement that: "workers should work as hard as they could when they are at work." It hopefully is no surprise that, when asked if they actually do that only 23% replied in the affirmative. A different study revealed that 25% of respondents admitted they would be perfectly happy if they could just stay home, perform no work, and still receive their paychecks. Now, thankfully you wonderful, hard-working, eager-to-leam students are NOT like that. I mean, you all are serious scholars who want to master the complicated and intricate details of International Management. Right? You would have been heartbroken if, back in January. I had said: "This is bogus. It is mind-numbing repetition of all the junk you leamed in International Business (which about half of you admitted you had already taken). So, let's just have one quiz over chapter one and give everybody an "A" for their efforts. That way we can concentrate on more important things in other classes and life." You would have been so devastated, that I'm sure you would have run right to the Dean and demanded that he force me to work you like a rented mule so that you get your money's worth out of your tuition. I'm right, aren't 1? Or would the average student have pocketed the "A" and gone away smiling? (Don't answer those questions in print.) Not wanting to work any harder than they have to in order to graduate? (Please don't debate with me on this-I've seen too many students, too many semesters. I know they are out there. Not you, of course.) Let us call this concept Point 12" for the moment. Can we agree that the average student (not you, of course) would be more likely to tum up in Figure 13.4 with the "Low-Achievement Motivation" group? Let us call this concept "Point #3" for the moment. If you have granted me Points #1, #2, and #3, then... Is it not logical for me to adopt Leadership style 1.1-low task, low people? Up through Session 5. the productivity is superior to two other Leadership styles, and not all that much below the Leadership style 9.1-high task, low people. By Session 7 the productivity results are hardly distinguishable between the 9.9 (workaholic) professor and the 1.1 (lazy) professor. And it saves me all the lecturing, yelling, screaming, quizzing, threatening, grading, testing, coercing, and leading required to be "high task, high people for the semester Question #3: Defend or refute that assertion A junior level manager was overheard to say: "This difference between managers and leaders is just silliness. It is just an artificiality created by scholars so that they have something to argue about." Question #2: Defend or refute that assertion. Figures 13-3 and 13-4 provide some unique insight from long ago. Before you assail the credibility of the study. I should mention that Administrative Science Ouarterly (ASQ) is considered by most scholars to be THE joumal. Take a moment to carefully scrutinize that material. Can we agree that a leaders' time is a valuable and scarce resource? Perhaps the most non-fungible resource available? (If you want to debate that, I'd point you towards Henry Mintzberg's book: The Nature of Managerial Work for starters.) Let us call this concept Point #1" for the moment. One study of 845 American workers revealed that 70% of the respondents agreed with the statement that: "workers should work as hard as they could when they are at work." It hopefully is no surprise that, when asked if they actually do that only 23% replied in the affirmative. A different study revealed that 25% of respondents admitted they would be perfectly happy if they could just stay home, perform no work, and still receive their paychecks. Now, thankfully you wonderful, hard-working, eager-to-leam students are NOT like that. I mean, you all are serious scholars who want to master the complicated and intricate details of International Management. Right? You would have been heartbroken if, back in January. I had said: "This is bogus. It is mind-numbing repetition of all the junk you leamed in International Business (which about half of you admitted you had already taken). So, let's just have one quiz over chapter one and give everybody an "A" for their efforts. That way we can concentrate on more important things in other classes and life." You would have been so devastated, that I'm sure you would have run right to the Dean and demanded that he force me to work you like a rented mule so that you get your money's worth out of your tuition. I'm right, aren't 1? Or would the average student have pocketed the "A" and gone away smiling? (Don't answer those questions in print.) Not wanting to work any harder than they have to in order to graduate? (Please don't debate with me on this-I've seen too many students, too many semesters. I know they are out there. Not you, of course.) Let us call this concept Point 12" for the moment. Can we agree that the average student (not you, of course) would be more likely to tum up in Figure 13.4 with the "Low-Achievement Motivation" group? Let us call this concept "Point #3" for the moment. If you have granted me Points #1, #2, and #3, then... Is it not logical for me to adopt Leadership style 1.1-low task, low people? Up through Session 5. the productivity is superior to two other Leadership styles, and not all that much below the Leadership style 9.1-high task, low people. By Session 7 the productivity results are hardly distinguishable between the 9.9 (workaholic) professor and the 1.1 (lazy) professor. And it saves me all the lecturing, yelling, screaming, quizzing, threatening, grading, testing, coercing, and leading required to be "high task, high people for the semester Question #3: Defend or refute that assertion