orgnazituonal change and development

POWER AND INFLUENCE CASE: Master and Commander The U.S. military is widely known for its leaders and its leadership training.72 And rightly so. It's important in the types of situations faced by military units, teams, and squads that they have strong leaders, leaders who can take command and who can understand the situation in deciding what needs to happen. But how and where does leader style factor in? Is it expected and accepted that by the very nature of those types of situations, military leaders have to be hard-nosed, no-nonsense, and tough? With a father who was a Navy captain, Holly Graf, the first woman to command Navy cruiser, had long dreamed of doing just that ever since her high school days in Connecticut. Upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1985, collcagues sensed that she was on a fast track to leadership. Her assignments were well- rounded-from tours aboard a destroyer tender, a frigate, and a destroyer, to shore assignments at the Pentagon and as a Navy instructor at Villanova University However, Graf's "darker side began to emerge when she was assigned to the destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur as the executive officer (XO) or second in command One individual (now retired) says his tour on the Curtis Wilbur was the worst time in my life." Graf's constant berating of the crew led him to complain, but nothing was done. A few years later, Graf made U.S. Naval history by becoming the first female commander of a destroyer, the USS Winston Churchill. A Navy chaplain recalls his time aboard the Churchill as the strangest of more than 200 such visits to ships in his career. Morale was the lowest he had ever encountered on any vessel." He tried to talk to Graf about what he was hearing from the crew and junior officers, but she cut him off and said she didn't want to talk to him about it. Then, Jone eventful night began the unraveling of Graf's career. On the eve of the Iraq war in 2003, the Churchill was steaming out of a Sicilian port when, without warning, all 9.000 tons of the vessel shuddered as it cleared the harbor's breakwater. It wasn't long before the 511-foot-long ship was adrift Commander Graf grabbed the cowering navigator and pulled him aside screaming. Did you run my X *ship aground? But amid all the chaos and shouting, the Navy chaplain aboard said that the sound heard next was more startling, Sailors on the Churchill's stern, suspecting that their ship had run aground- meaning Graf's career would be instantly over-broke gleefully into song: "Ding Dong, the witch is dead!" He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Even today, the chaplain can fathom which was worse, that U.S. sailors were openly berating a captain or that the captain seemed to deserve it. But that incident didn't end her career. Grat's next command as captain of the guided missile-cruiser USS Cowpens would be her last. Thowever She was relieved of duty in January 2010, after nearly two years, for "cruelty and maltreatment of her crew, The Navy Inspector General's report stated, "Persons in authority are forbidden to injure their subordinates by tyrannical or capricious conduct, or by abusive language." But Graf did so by demeaning, humiliating. publicly helittling and verbally assaulting subordinates while in command off Cowpens with harsh language and profanity..rarely followed by any instruction." Questions: 1. What do you think of this description of Captain Holly Graf's leader style? Do you think that Captain Graf could even be called a leader? Discuss. 2. What kinds of power do you think Graf used as a ship commander? Explain your choices