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(Lussier, Achua , Leadership: Theory, Application, and Skill Development , 6th ed , Cengage Learning , ISBN 9781285866352) Book the question is referring to.

ose Gonzalez. a Hispanic highly sought after policy, which will be discussed at a future DA meeting. The next day, Jose sent a memo to department members asking if it is ethical and legal to deny him the same resources as others are using across the campus. Jose also states that if the depart- man, was receiving his PhD in accounting. Today, he is a tenured professor at a small teaching college in the Midwest.0 The Department of Accounting (DA) has nine faculty members it is one of five departments in the School of Business (SB) The accounting department chair is Helen Canton, who is in her first year as chair Six faculty members, including Jose, have been in the department longer than Helen. Helen likes to have ment sets a policy stating that he can no longer use graduate assistants to conrrect objective exams, he will appeal the policy decision to the dean, vice president, and president Support your answers to the following questions with spe cific information from the case and text, or with other infor policies in place so that faculty members have guides for their behavior On the college wide level, however, there is no policy mation you get from the Web or other sources. about the job of graduate assistant. Helen asked the dean of I. (a) What source of power does Helen have, and (b) the SB about the policy.After a discussion with the vice presi- what type of power is she using? (c) Which influencing dent for academic affairs, the dean told Helen that there is tactic is Helen using during the meeting (d) Is negotia tion and/or the (e) exchange tactic appropriate in this policy.The vice president and dean suggested letting the policy regarding what graduate assistants can and cannot do in their position. So, Helen made developing a policy for graduate assistants an no individual departments develop their own situation? 2. (a) What source of power does Jose have, and (b) what type of power is he using during the meeting? (c) Which agenda item for the department meeting During the DA meeting Helen asked for members' views what graduate assistants shoukd and should not be allowed hoping that the department could come to palicy, It turns out that Jose was the only grade exams Two other faculty members speak out against having graduate assistants grade exams. They believe it is the professor's job two influencing tactics is jose primarily using during the meeting? (d) Which influencing tactic is Jose using with the memo? (e) Is the memo a wise political move for on to do. She was Jose? What might he gain and lose by sending it? a consensus on a faculty member using graduate assistants to 3. What would you do if you were Helen? (a) Would you talk to the dean, letting her know that Jose said he would appeal the policy decision? (b) Which influ- encing tactic would this discussion involve? (c) Which to grade exams. Jose makes a few statements in hopes of not having to correct his own exams. Because his exams are objec tive, requiring a correct answer, Jose believes it's not necessary for him to personally grade the exams. He also points out that across the campus and across the country, other faculty mem political behavior would the discussion represent? (d) Would you draft a policy directly stating that gradu- ate assistants cannot be used to grade objective exams? (e) Would your answer to (d) be influenced by your bers are using graduate assistants to teach entire courses and to correct subjective papers and exams. Jose states that he does not think it fair that he can no longer (a)? answer to 4. (a) If you were Jose, knowing you had no verbal sup use graduate as- porters during the meeting would you have continued to defend your position or agreed to stop using a gradu- ate assistant? (b)What do you think of jose sending the sistants to grade objective exams when others are doing He also states that the department does not need to have so. policy and requests that the department not set a policy However Helen states that she wants a policy Jose is the orly ane to speak in favor of allowing graduate assistants to grade exams, although three others made no comments either w But, after the meeting, one other member Joel Corman, who memo? (c) As a tenured full professor, Jose is secure in his job. Would your answer change if you (as jose) had not received tenure or promotion to the top rank? 5. (a) If you were Jose, and Helen drafted a policy and department members agreed with it, what would you do? Would you appeal the decision to the dean? (b) Again, would your answer said nothing during the meeting tells Jose he agrees that it is not fair to deny him this use of a graduate assistant. There was no department consensus, as Helen hoped there would be. She said that she would draft a department change if you had not received tenure or promotion to the top rank? 9. Which level(s) of analysis of leadership theory is (are) presented in this case (Chapter 1)?

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Answer 1:-As Helen is chair of Business Department she has position as a source of power and she is using legitimate power during the meeting. In addition to this,Jean is also using the meeting influencing method by asking her employees for thoughtson the new policy

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Jose has personal power as a source of power and he is using the rational persuasion power during the meeting, which is evident from the fact that he pointed that across the campus graduate assistants are used to correct papers.

Yes, the move to send memos is political; with this move Jose is using the coalition influencing tactic , hoping to use influential people . By doing this, Jose might win his case, but his relationship with Helen will turn sore, which is very bad, as she is chair of Business Department.

Answer :- If I would have been Helen I would not have talked to the dean. If I would had talked to the dean then it would have been a coalition influencing decision. I would have rather used the power of connection and coalition influencing tactic to gain support of the policy through members of the other departments and the heads of the university. Yes, I would draft a policy directly stating that graduate assistants cannot be used to grade objective exams. Yes, my decision of drafting a policy would be influenced by my decision to talk to the dean

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My decision would not have been affected by whether I had verbal supporters or not, as far as I believed myself to be right. To me Jose sending the memos was a childish move; if he wanted other members to take his point then he should have personally contacted them, he could have also tried to persuade them a little more at the time of meeting. My answer would have changed if I had not received tenure or promotion to the top rank, then I would not have been that confident about my move and would have easily given up.

Answer:- If the policy would had been drafted I would have definitely appealed to the dean, as the dean holds the highest authority and it would be only him who could have challenged the decision of policy formation. (b) Yes, my answer will change, if I would not had received tenure or promotion to the top rank, then I would not have appealed to the dean, fearing not putting a bad impression on him, which could hinder my future possibilities of promotion