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ASSIGNMENT 4
LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT – LEADERSHIP CONSULTANT ANALYSIS
DUE DATE: WEEK 9
Note: All scenarios in this assignment are fictional.
REAL BUSINESS
It can be difficult for a business to improve how it
operates from inside the organization. Sometimes, an outside perspective is
needed. The large discount retail store you work for wants to improve its
in-store restaurant management team.
YOUR ROLE
Companies like Target and Walmart often works with outside
consultants—people who are not employees of the company but who are hired on a
contract basis to help with a specific project. As a Leadership Consultant,
you’ve been hired by a large discount retail company to help the company
improve its leadership structure and approach to management.
WHAT IS A LEADERSHIP CONSULTANT?
A leadership consultant is a person called in to a company,
be it a large corporation or a small business, to evaluate how it operates and
make recommendations for improvement. Leadership consultants are typically
hired when a business is struggling and needs to make changes in order to
remain profitable. Such consultants are often highly educated in the field of
business and have experience in managerial roles.
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INSTRUCTIONS
STEP 1: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
Take a look at the Organization Chart provided by the
company.
• Based on
your knowledge of hierarchies, would you say that this team has tall structure
or flat structure?
Underline your selection:
• Tall
Structure
• Flat
Structure
Explain your answer.
STEP 2: HUMAN RESOURCES
The company would like to improve the culture of its team
and the quality of its work. Its leadership has provided you with a Process
Chart detailing how it currently applies Human Resources best practices.
• What step
of the Human Resources Cycle is missing? Explain why it is important to include
this part of the process.
Note: You should complete Steps 3 & 4 after reading the
material in Week 9.
STEP 3: LEADERSHIP STYLE
You have been asked to help improve the leadership style of
the team leader in order to meet the team’s performance goals. The team leader
has given you a description of what is most comfortable in terms of leading
others.
• Identify
this leader’s style of leadership. Underline your selection:
• Pacesetting
• Visionary
• Affiliative
• Coaching
• Coercive
• Democratic
Explain your reasoning and list two benefits and two
drawbacks to the style of leadership you identified as it relates to the
performance of the team.
Provide advice to the team leader on how to overcome the
drawbacks of this leadership style.
STEP 4: REAL-WORLD APPLICATION
Apply the thinking in Steps 1-3 as if you were a Leadership
Consultant hired by the company where you work or for a previous employer.
• Review
the organization chart for your company. Based on your knowledge of
hierarchies, would you say that your company’s team has a tall structure or
flat structure? How does this affect the way your team works? Explain your
answer.
• Consider
the work conducted by the Human Resources team at your company. What steps of
the Human Resources Cycle do they implement well? What steps of the Human
Resources Cycle might be missing from your company or are not implemented as
well as they could be? What is the effect of this on you and your team? Explain
your answer.
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• Lastly,
reflect on the leadership style of either yourself or your supervisor. What
leadership style do you have, or what leadership style does your supervisor
have? What are the benefits and drawbacks of this style for your team? What
might you or your supervisor do to improve leadership? Explain your answer.
