HOOSIERS- The movie revolves all around a volatile coach and a former star player leading a small town basketball team on a doubtful run to the Indiana high school
Championship game. It witness a look at Norman Dale's incompetent coaching and a statistical analysis of Jimmy Chitwood.
Coach Norman Gale
His role was an excellent impression of a good and an effective leader. Roles assigned to him in the movie are to coach high school basketball team and to win a championship title i.e. INDIANA CUP. His action logically reflected his personality and motivated to lead. He was in a navy for 10 years and knew the discipline and consistency of his work in an efficient manner.
The personality trait that suited him was “ENFJ (extraversion, intuition, feeling, judgment)”. His motivation leads people in an extraversion kind and judgemental decision making. He followed task based approach relates to value productivity, efficiency, impersonal, universal decision logic, rules and systems. He always quoted while talking to the media or any third person that he didn't know. He followed Achiever action logic which follows team member who did not perform up to the team standards. His coaching style and medium made a great hope to the hickories fellows of winning shine. “My practices aren't designed for your enjoyment”
He was an authoritarian leader who command and control the team. “I've seen you guys can shoot but there's more to the game than shooting. There's fundamentals and defence.” The two leadership styles followed by Coach Norman Dale were Commanding/ Coercive and coaching. He tried to establish a dictatorship rules in the game. Every player should follow “Do what I say”. His need came in action when team required in urgency and his achiever plans. He too established a coaching style which guided team members their strengths and weakness and aspired to win. “Strap, God wants you on the floor.” “If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your