Ldr 531 Leadership Strategy to Regain Confidence
Consumers trust that the products they buy will meet their satisfaction and perform safely. When trust is lost by an injury, it affects an organizations reputation and profits. Employees of the organization are also affected but their reaction to the situation affects the organization in different ways. The challenge the leader of these employees face can become difficult. For example, a company is facing a crisis of confidence based on a faulty product that injured several consumers. This information is publicly known and the national news will highlight the incident. The situation has become a crisis and a section leader Katrina Le’Vere, must develop a leadership strategy to address all facets of it. This crisis will challenge her leadership experience and training.
As a leader Katrina has a responsibility to account, supervise, motivate, counsel, and ensure employees are productive at the workplace. There are many theories of leadership she can employ to assist with developing a strategy to address this crisis. Before the situation occurred the organization required its leaders to perform self-evaluations of their leadership characteristics to help them identify their leadership strengths and weaknesses. Katrina’s leadership style is a balance between people-oriented and task-orientation (Pfeiffer & Jones, 1974). The best leaders can balance people orientation and task to various situations. Katrina establishes goals and makes plans to help achieve those goals (Pfeiffer & Jones, 1974). She is very proactive and most productive during the mid-day. She takes action to influence her environment and perseveres until she sees a change. Katina job satisfaction is high and she likes the company. Her manners are proper and a happy person but she does not like open-minded people who constantly has new ideas on how thing should run. Katrina’s social skills are very good she has demonstrated the skills and competencies necessary to influence her personnel’s abilities to
As a leader Katrina has a responsibility to account, supervise, motivate, counsel, and ensure employees are productive at the workplace. There are many theories of leadership she can employ to assist with developing a strategy to address this crisis. Before the situation occurred the organization required its leaders to perform self-evaluations of their leadership characteristics to help them identify their leadership strengths and weaknesses. Katrina’s leadership style is a balance between people-oriented and task-orientation (Pfeiffer & Jones, 1974). The best leaders can balance people orientation and task to various situations. Katrina establishes goals and makes plans to help achieve those goals (Pfeiffer & Jones, 1974). She is very proactive and most productive during the mid-day. She takes action to influence her environment and perseveres until she sees a change. Katina job satisfaction is high and she likes the company. Her manners are proper and a happy person but she does not like open-minded people who constantly has new ideas on how thing should run. Katrina’s social skills are very good she has demonstrated the skills and competencies necessary to influence her personnel’s abilities to
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