Crew Shackleton Characteristics

The second element or factor in the leadership effectiveness is the group members characteristics. This refers to the attributes of each group member that could effective on how effective the leadership attempt will be (DuBrin, A. J., 2014). The first example of this Shackleton and the crews’ inadequate preparation for a second ship to come around and meet them on the other side. This would have maybe allowed for an earlier rescue if the second boat were to realize that Shackleton and the crew were stuck. The crew and Shackleton’s over assumptions about needing to have help or more than one boat sailing caused their expedition for land and a way home to be much longer.
The second example was Shackleton and the rest of the groups lack of communication when it came to bringing a dog trainer on board. Just assuming that they were going to be able to train the dogs on their own and not have some adequately train them ended up being a
Throughout their voyage, Shackleton and his crew faced many weather, ship, food, water, etc. obstacles that both had internal and external effects on them. The first example of an external and internal influence that made things tough on the crew was the constant confrontation with icebergs and frozen fields of ice. The internal influence deals with Shackleton deciding to continue forward on the voyage. Many leaders would realize that for Shackleton, sailing for the South Pole with all the fields of ice and large icebergs would be too much to take on and they would turn back to not risk any of the crews lives. But Shackleton was determined to reach the South Pole and it ended up hurting him and his crew in the end. The external influence would be the ice bergs and fields of ice making the journey longer and more