Module 2 - Case

ONE SIZE DOESN'T FIT ALL: SITUATIONAL APPROACHES TO LEADERSHIP

Assignment Overview

For this assignment, first, review the background materials with a focus on Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership model from Holsinger and Carlton (2008, Chapter 4) and Thompson and Glas (2018). Make sure you are familiar with the four leadership styles covered in the situational approach (Directing, Coaching, Supporting, and Delegating) and situations where you are supposed to use these four styles.

Case Assignment

You are in charge of a fast-food restaurant. The employees are all teenagers who have not yet graduated from high school, and this is the first job for most of them.

develop a paper to include 3 scholarly sources from the required or optional reading lists and address the following:

1. What is the Situational Leadership Model, and how can it be used to improve your scenario?
2. The Situational Leadership Model involves both "inputs" and "outputs" by taking employee commitment and competency as inputs and then, based on the employee information, selects one of the four Directing, Coaching, Supporting, or Delegating as an output. develop a table comparing and contrasting the four leadership styles (Directing, Coaching, Supporting, or Delegating) in terms of inputs and outputs, and include a discussion of your table.
3. Based on your table and the readings, which of the four leadership styles do you think is most useful to the scenario and why?
4. Be sure to cite and reference.