Why is it important to understand management style if you are an HR professional or manager? Discuss at least three points.

$2.$ What combinations of management style might you use in each of these situations and why?

a$.$ You are considering a major change in the way your company does business. Your staff has an excellent record of achieving goals, and your relationship with them is trusting and supportive.

b$.$ Your employees do a great job. A situation has developed in which you need to make quick decisions and finish a project by the end of the week.

c$.$ Your employees are having trouble getting the job done. Their performance as a whole is less than expected.

d$.$ You have an employee who is very motivated but has little experience.

$3.$ Management Style, Applied You recently completely overhauled several aspects of employee benefits, including health insurance and compensation packages. You have also developed clear succession plans and career development plans to assist in the retention of your current employees. You are pretty excited about the changes and feel they are better for the employees, while costing your organization less money. These plans came from your development of a strategic plan and goals set last year. You think these plans will result in lower turnover. However, in four recent exit interviews, the former employees mentioned the lack of communication from your department on the changes you made. They said they did not feel well informed and are disappointed they were not notified. In addition, they complained of micromanagement on the part of two particular managers. They said they spend half of their day responding to their managers with project updates, instead of working on the projects themselves. As you begin to think about these exit interviews, you realize that development of the strategic plan and implementing it simply isn$$t enough; you must communicate the changes to employees as well. You also have a bit of concern about the management styles mentioned and think it might be a good time to offer training on effective management to your entire company.