After reading the Hospital scenario in the \"Allied Health Community\" media, id
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Question
After reading the Hospital scenario in the "Allied Health Community" media, identify which manager has stronger leadership characteristics? Does either manager demonstrate a contemporary leadership style, and if so which one?
Rachel, ambitions to be leading the top performing team, explained that she would be organizing the team based upon demonstration of leadership and desire to succeed. The individuals who displayed this behavior would be rewarded with one of the four lead positions. Questions quickly arose from the group as to how “leadership and desire to succeed” would be identified, and how individuals overall would be chosen. Rachel responded by saying she would personally choose the individuals; they would be determined as she closely watched individual performance and determined whether or not people were “doing their best work.” After work, members of the new team informally gathered to discuss the changes. Several of the employees who had worked with Rachel before described situations they witnessed on her past teams. They concluded that she typically had “favorites” and these were the people who advanced. From their experience, they believed becoming a “favorite” meant taking on extra tasks and extra hours. A member newer to the company was surprised by the information. Rachel had just approached him in private and told him that she had heard good things about his performance; she intimated that he would be a perfect fit for the lead position—but that those in the lead positions needed to take on a tremendous amount of work because the lead positions were especially vital to the success of the company.
Tomas introduced the initial meeting to his new team as a “strategy meeting” and scheduled a full day for the team to meet. At the beginning of the meeting, Tomas described the new team’s organization as a group of “interdependent people working toward a common goal,” and reported that there would be no lead positions. Tomas led the group through an activity to identify their strengths, weaknesses, and special skills. Tomas then led the group through an extensive team-building activity that was designed to demonstrate the importance of interdependency. At the end of the meeting, Tomas concluded with a conversation on accountability plans and shared vision. As people left to go home, they discussed the meeting. There were mixed feelings about the meeting and the team’s direction. Some were enthused by the vision; but frustrated because little was revealed about the day-to-day expectations or actual job duties. Others felt that the activities they had to do were “fluff” and that a full day had been a waste. A couple of these individuals were especially disappointed that there were no lead positions to work toward
Explanation / Answer
I guess Tomas has got strong leadership charachterstics as per the new business era and he also has the contemporary leadership charachterstics. In the new business world, it said that manager should be more friendly, he should give his employees more creativity and should be open to suggestions if any. Tomas is today's cotemporary leader where the leader does not set individual goals but does share a common vision and asks the employees to participate in the common vision, he has identified strengths and weaknesses of the group and not any person, so that the group members can together work on builting up strong interdepedent group skills. Tomas knows that single employee can not make progress alone but he needs a strong team to survice in the competition. The team members who were not used to the same would gradually unnderstand the mechanism behind it, and start working in a group rather than their own goals.