MBA 612 Ineffective Leadership Behavior

MBA 612 Ineffective Leadership Behavior WK 1In year 2002 January when I was doing my internship at a dealership in Lansing Michigan that I had Mr. Ericson as my supervisor. Apparently I was among the six interns who came from different countries with a different culture, values and work ethics. Ericson was a very well trained with bachelors degree in engineering and was articulated, well knowledgeable person but he was not exposed to working with a diversity cultural group. A s he was growing up, he was made to believe that other people from different culture (Africa and Asia) were not able minded to be reliable and effective at whatever given assignment which they were asked to perform without a close supervision.
Later on I came to learn that he grew up in a non multicultural environment all h is life and this was the first experience he was undergoing dealing with people from a different culture. Based on his beliefs and up bringing he tended to be very push, biased and unfair to those who he did not understand the values. This negativity lead to his leadership infectivity because he was constantly on a look out and making assumptions. The result of this was we were so demotivated and we were just looking forward to get over with the internship and leave at the soonest time possible. His lack of understanding for certain behavior among the group was un comprehended.Ericson , could be considered in the situation where he observe something, he immediately compare the events with his personal set of values, assumptions, and expectations. He had a gap between what he observed and what he expected, which lead to negativity. As it is well known that in some countries for example, direct eye contact is regarded to be disrespectful while in the U S its one of the
A person carries out this process by applying the leadership attributes and including beliefs, values, character knowledge and skill. Ericson lacked the knowledge and exposure according to human behavior categories in similarities and dissimilarities: like human kind, regional culture, national culture, sub national culture, organization culture, family culture and individuality. Ericson, if he had known then, he would have taken into consideration some of these lay down stated facts so as to motivate my group and able to improve the production output which was highly in demand but alas his leadership behavior lead to low output. In the long run we realized that his altitude towards my group affected the entire work force since it was not acceptable.Based on our discussion in class, it was discussed that “Those assumptions, like the genes in Nichson ` s view of executive instinct, are passed down from generation to generation much like genes. These are known as mental