This week we read and watched videos on leadership and management. How employees in charge of and responsible forother employees take up their roles varies greatly."Styles"of management are approaches that leaders and managers adopt to direct, guide,or encourage employees to carry out work tasks to meet organizational goals. How much collaboration they seek from employees,how authoritative and directive they are, howlaissez faireor free-reign they are with employees are a combination of learned techniques, strategic, intentional approaches, personality habits, and relational/situational factors.

Step One:

Watch the 2 videos below, keeping in mind and taking note of 'styles' of management or leadership reflected in the workplace scenes.

Watch Video GROW for coaching and problem solving (live role play):

Youtube video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dYLaoI5UFM

Watch Video Bad Boss Series: The Micro Managing boss:

Youtube video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JmdFX99-zY

Step Two:

Identify integrating concepts, principles, and approaches from our reading this week.

Using the terms from our reading this week, identify and explain the "style" of management you observe in each of the videos.

• What about the situations in each scene may be shaping how the manager is approaching the employee?
• What strengths and challenges do you see in each of the manager's way of interacting with the employee?
• Drawing the notion of "styles" from our reading, what style of management works best for you as an employee?
• Why do you think it is important to understand management style in a human relations course? What does our reading have to say about this?