Strayer BUS 100 Assignment 4 LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP CONSULTANT ANALYSIS

Strayer BUS 100 Assignment 4 LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT – LEADERSHIP CONSULTANT ANALYSIS

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?

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

Please 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.

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

Please 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.