Pacesetting Leadership Style

Employees can distinguish easily between if a manager sincerely cares or not within the work place. The actions and the attitude of the leader radiate on to its employees and determine the work environment. When the leader does not show emotion, employees do not feel like they are cared for, but when a leader is fully involved, the employees are happier and work harder. “When a leader cares, other become focused and energized.” (Manning et al., 2015) With excited and energetic employees willing to work hard and work together, not only do they succeed, but the company and leader do as well.

A time study being conducted by management ultimately seems to indicate a lack of trust in their employees, and can even be taken as an insult by some. This lack of trust results in a disconnect between working class levels (that is, a class struggle) due to the creation of tension as a result of the time studies being conducted. This is why secret time studies were introduced. The difference between a normal time study and a secret time study is that in a secret time study, workers do not know they are being monitored.

Of Couse, an ineffective leader only leads to making the employees to feel a instability. Harold faced the failure of not having earned but instead broke the trust of the employees. In the end, the bad comradery between Harold and the employees that was going on caused a huge gap between leader and employee resulting

The players finally see that Coach Boone has credibility, now players are motivated to work harder because he is so motivated towards the team. With everyone respecting each other, a clear vision of the goal and team work they are able to accomplish

Boost Juice just needs to focus on communicating more between upper level management and their employees on the shop floor. They are the ones who are the face of the business to customers and they are the ones who see first-hand any issues to do with the stores. Communicating with them is key in order to have a full understanding of what they are doing well and where they need to improve. At the end of the day "The art of communication is the language of leadership" (James Humes,

Employees find themselves in conflict with some supervisors because they may have leadership trait, which are in conflict with some supervisors who are not natural born leader (Bernerth et al. 2008). An unforeseen conflict between supervisors and HR department is people may look good on paper or have high test scores, but still does not have the required knowledge to do the job hired for. I believe, supervisors are in the best position to understand the needs of their section or department so they will more than likely make a good decision in that area. Most supervisors look forward to training their subordinates, assisting them in the most promising time of their career preparing them to become future supervisors. Those employees typically become department heads, senior officers, full-time associates, and or shift leaders.

In every fire service or emergency management organization, the first-line officers or supervisors have the greatest impact on creating a positive work environment. A positive or negative environment will trickle down through the department (). A full-time emergency management organization can motivate and retain employees by offering competitive wages and excellent benefits. Additionally, if the organization provides up-to-date and well-maintained equipment and technology, can increase worker productivity and satisfaction, which in turn leads to meeting organizational goals and objectives (). One area of motivation that often gets overlooked and that is important in retaining personnel letting employees know that their contribution is appreciated.

Feedback is one of the most beneficial step in the development of an employee, and for the benefit of the organization as a whole. Thus, we need to be sensitive, and have positive atmosphere, taking away fear from the employee. Hunt and Weintraub (2015) states, we have come to understand that many well-meaning managers believes that when they give feedback, they are coaching. It’s important for both manager and employee to listen understand to provide what is requested. Keep in mind that everyone is important, and thus, they should be treated fairly and equally.

• The team leader’s inability to strategically place self from a manager who is supervising team members to now a team leader for the team. Managers in general is someone who has certain characteristics that differentiate their role from the team member’s role. In general managers have standards of expectation and performance from those managing, which are • It was further noted that the team leader did not want to engage further in discussions and simply stated it won’t work, because it was tried in the past and was not effective. the several approaches are important to increase cohesion in work teams…training in social interaction skills, such as effective and active listening and conflict management, can improve communication and cohesion…training in task skills, such as goal setting and jobs skills, improves the team’s ability to work successfully.” It is important also to note that mangers to some degree are also expected to expend, account for responsibilities related to the company’s goals…and according to Leigh Thompson achieving results directing the activity of others by setting challenging goals for personal and team accomplishment and by controlling their achievements.”

1. Introduction It is crucial for managers to understand what motivates employees because only then will they be able to meet their needs and demands. Employees will be more motivated and committed to the organization when their important needs are met and when these important needs are not met, their morale suffers and this weakens their motivation in the long run. Like all other companies, Microsoft does its bid to keep its staff motivated and the theories I found to be used by Microsoft to motivate its employees are Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y, Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and McClelland’s theory of needs.

Not only is this company running based on classical style where everything is top down but they’re also lack of managerial grid. The organization doesn’t have a tool for training managers in leadership styles that would enhance organizational efficiency and effectiveness and stimulate the satisfaction and creativity of individual workers. They have proved their lack of management style skills and man by calling Shavonda and other three female contractor “shopping trips” and ignoring Shavonda’s complaint to a manager. This could be a serious consequences that could lead a manager to be terminated and possible a lawsuit of gender discrimination which could causes the company to lose major clients and effect the images in the business world. Also, victims of gender segregation lose motivation and morale to perform their jobs and their productivity will go down due to stressful and they have no desire to perform.

This shows two things that the programers are not really motivated to work and the only purpose of working is so they can maximize their social life. Also, T.A Stearns the company incentives do not have significant values for the employees. Now there must be a way to get the employees to feel like they 're the ones benefiting from the company when they achieve something good. Next is the fact that the team did not tell their manager Dave about their new innovation. This shows that there is lack of communication and moral values within the work force causing inefficient results for the company and can be look at as the programmers a cheating the T. A Stearns.

The lack of communication can put the workplace in trouble. The reason why communication is a problem may consist of many different personalities and level of skills. Not everyone is the same and knows how to work as a team to get the tasks complete for their shift. Although working as a team will help make the workplace very effective, this is not being done at this Royal Farms. Deana stated that the personality conflicts and personal bias causes the communication to come to a halt.