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Assignment: Business Finance- Management Case
Module - Case: One Size Doesn't Fit All: Situational Approaches to Leadership
Overview
For this assignment, first, review the background materials with a focus on Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership model. Make sure you are familiar with the four leadership styles covered in the situational approach (Directing, Coaching, Supporting, and Delegating) and situations where you are supposed to use these four styles.
Task
Pick one of the following scenarios (I, II, or III) below:
I. You are in charge of a team of junior accountants. They are skilled but have strong opinions and do not necessarily follow instructions. These accountants are independent thinkers who are used to doing assigned tasks without taking extra initiative to learn new skills.
II. You are in charge of a pizza restaurant. Except for the delivery people, the employees are all teenagers who have not yet graduated from high school, and this is the first job for most of them.
III. You are the supervisor of a team of software developers. They are all highly skilled and highly motivated and are used to working independently. All of them believe in the mission of the company.
Write a 3 pages paper (excluding title and reference pages) to include 3 scholarly sources from the required or optional reading lists and address the following:
A. What is the Situational Leadership Model, and how can it be used to improve your selected scenario?
B. The Situational Leadership Model involves both "inputs" and "outputs" by taking employee commitment and competency as inputs and then, based on the employee information, selects one of the four leadership styles, Directing, Coaching, Supporting, or Delegating, as an output.
C. Discuss the four leadership styles in terms of inputs and outputs, and include a 1 -or 2-paragraph discussion of the best leadership style for your selected scenario.
D. Based on the readings, which of the four leadership styles do you think is most useful to the scenario you selected? Explain your rationale for your leadership style selection.