Question

1. What are your views on the Leadership Grid? Recall a manager you have now or have had. Which of the five styles does or did the manager use?
2. What are your views on contingency leadership theory? Do you agree with Fiedler's recommendation to change the situation rather than the leader's style?
3. What are your views on the leadership continuum? Recall a manager you have now or have had. Which of the seven styles does or did the manager use?
4. What are your views on normative leadership theory? Recall a manager you have now or have had. Which of the five styles does or did the manager use?

Answer 1

1.

While working at GE my supervisor used the 5,5 organized manager approach. As long as we got our standard amount of work done he did not care what we did. If we got the work done in the morning he would sit around with us in the afternoon, or let us do what we wanted to.

2.

I like this approach because of the boss I have now. My boss could not change styles, he is task oriented and does not like people. He does not get much work done because of his poor relations, and the fact that employees do not have clear goals. If this situation were changed so that we had clear goals, we would not have to interact much with the boss; he would be in a morefavorable situation for his style

3.

I like this model because it gives you flexibility to select one of seven styles on a continuum. My boss last summer tended to use the #5 style. He used to present ideas to me abouta task that I would do, we talked about how to do the task, than he would make the decision on how I would do it

4.

I think that the Normative Leadership Theory is basically the same as the leader continuum, only it has five leadership styles instead of seven; and it requires you to answer seven questions.