Situational Leadership STYLES: ARISTOTLE AND LEADERSHIP, AND LEADERSHIP VS. MANAGEMENT

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One of the more contemporary styles of leadership is "situational leadership." In this assignment, you will choose a CEO from a top company and analyze his/her leadership style through the lens of situational leadership.

Required Reading

Fortune Magazines “100 Best Companies to Work For 2016”: http://fortune.com/best-companies/

Drawing on the material in the background readings and doing additional research, prepare a 5- to 6-page paper (not including the cover and reference pages).

Using the framework of Situational Leadership, analyze the leadership style of a contemporary CEO from one of the top 10 companies listed in Fortune Magazine's Best Companies to Work for in 2016.

Keys to the Assignment

  • Research the company, then answer the following questions.
    • Which of the situational leadership styles exemplifies this company?
    • What is the added value of this leadership style?
    • What impact does this leadership style have on the organization’s overall image?
    • Contrast this leadership style with Express Scripts, named the worst company in America to work for by glassdoor.com.
    • Based on your experiences and research, what kind of leadership style is needed to promote efficiency in an organization? What contingencies affect this outcome? Justify your response.
    • These are not the only things that must be covered, but just the minimum. You are encouraged to go deeper with the assignment and use your critical thinking skills to ascertain what other areas are important in making a company one of the top ones in which to work.

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Running head: SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP CASE

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Situational Leadership Case
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Situational Leadership Case
Situational leadership is a versatile leadership style. This technique urges leaders to
appraise their colleagues, measure the numerous factors in their working environment and pick
the leadership style that best fits their objectives and conditions. In the expressions of leadership
scholar Ken Blanchard, earlier a pioneer was a manager. The present pioneers can never again
lead exclusively in light of positional power. (Spahr, 2015)
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational organization dealing with technology that has
practical experience in Internet-related administrations and items. These incorporate web-based
promoting advances, look, distributed computing, programming, and equipment. The Current
CEO is Sundar Pichai. For the 6th year running, Google has handled the best spot on the
rundown of the nation's Best Companies to Work For. The $75 billion tech titan is renowned for
luxury advantages like free gourmet sustenance, hair styles, and clothing administrations, and
much more. In any case, it likewise adopts a -rigorous explanatory strategy to confidence. It
helped its parental-leave approaches, for instance, in the wake of finding that moms were leaving
at higher rates—the outcome was a half decrease in steady loss for working mothers. And after
that there's the way of life: Town corridors held by dark Googlers and partners, bolster for
transgender specialists, and oblivious predisposition workshops (-already went to by over 70% of
staff) help cultivate what representatives say is a "protected and comprehensive" working
environment at this hive of superior workers. ("Google", n.d.)
The leadership style of Sundar is selling style. There are many evidences which
demonstrate this. The measure of data a leader needs to manage at Google is mind-boggling.

SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP CASE

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Sundar had a sharp eye for detail to such an extent that he could share information about an item
that he did...


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