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Choose a leadership theory. Describe the leadership theory and discuss how the theory informs your understanding of leadership.
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Discuss the importance of why reflecting on your personal strengths, values, talents, personality, and tendencies is important to being an effective leader.
Differentiate intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation. What are your motivators specific to leadership? For example, why do you want to be a leader within your career? Are these motivators intrinsic or extrinsic?
Case Study:
Monica is the CEO of a regional chain of hospitals and clinics that includes several thousand employees. The medical facilities continue to grow as insurance companies are eager to form partnerships with relatively low-cost suppliers as the population ages. Monica has been thinking lately that medical facilities have not been as aggressive as manufacturing companies in pushing for environmental sustainability. In her words, “Medical facilities could be a lot greener than they are. Obviously we don’t throw contaminated bandages and needles into the river, but we could still do a lot more. I think that we need to get more of our leaders and employees thinking green.” The following week, Monica worked with her administrative assistant, Karen, to come up with a list of suggestions that hospital and clinic managers, supervisors, and employees could implement to help create a greener environment. Monica believes strongly that only collective action can create a sustainable environment, meaning that all employees can help make medical facilities more environmentally friendly. She then sent an email to every employee with a work email address, making suggestions for creating a green environment. Monica also explained that the hospital had established a central budget to help fund some of the green initiatives. Her suggestions for helping the hospitals and clinic contribute to a sustainable environment contained 25 suggestions, including the following 6:
Conserve energy by adjusting thermostats in working areas to be cooler during cold months, and warmer during warm months.
Encourage patients to conserve on the use of towels because laundering towels consumes so much energy.
Encourage visitors to hospitals and clinics not waste so much gas circling around the parking lots to find a spot close to the medical facility. Our patients and their family members are spewing too much CO2 into their air because they want to minimize walking.
Encourage employee use of mass transportation in any locations where it is feasible.
Use mugs instead of one use cups, and set up bins to recycle aluminum cans and plastic bottles.
Create signs that say, “Think Before You Print” and post them near office printers and copy machines. At the same time, include under your email signature a line that encourages people not to print emails unless absolutely necessary.
Among the first replies from her mass distributed email were, “Thanks. If we follow your advice we will soon be one of the greenest healthcare chains in the country.” As well as, “Nice idea, but our staff is already so overworked I doubt we can work on the environment.”
Questions:
What do you think of the effectiveness of Monica’s leadership in sending an email message to encourage environmental sustainability?
What other leadership technique might Monica use to help prompt the hospitals and clinics toward sustainability?
Help CEO Monica by creating a vision statement to cover her efforts towards sustainability.