Simmons Laboratories
Case Study for Simmons Laboratories This case is about three indivuals with different leadship styles. Brandon Newbridge is a synthesizer, which means, he is a eclectic, thinker, pragmatist, and “whatever works” kind of leader. Dr. William Goh’s is like a partner, which means he is mentor who passes his wisdom down to other. He is conscientious , collaborative, ego-free, and is able to work side by side with his peers. Lester Zapf is an achiever, which means “ebullient leader” who is excellent motivator, communicator, and can influces others to follow his ideas, values and beliefs regardless of their agreement or disageement with him.
Synopsis of Case Study: Dr. Goh (Project Head) appointed Newbridge as a project head of Photon Corrlator project about 2 year ago. Newbridge is in laboratory trying to figure out a solution for a problem that keeps on rising during his tests. Lester Zapf (a mathematician) walks in and starts to look over plans and preliminary results of Newbridges project after introducing himself. He makes some remarks about autocorrelation functions, which Newbridge does not understand and that annoyed him. Newbridge goes to Dr. Goh to find out little more information about Zapf, and Goh asks him what he thinks of Zapf. He tells Newbridge that he is plans to take him on and ask if it will be okay with him if he can joins Newbridge’s team. After saying yes to Goh, Newbridge starts to worry about his own position without asking any further details about Zapf. Newbridge let Zapf takes control of his projects and let him undermine his other team members. Instead of solving a conflict between him and Zapf, and Zapf and other team members he leave his project incomplete to gets job somewhere else. He writes letter to Dr. Goh about his leave by using false excuses instead of real reason for his leave. This is disappointment for Dr. Goh because now he had to temporary give leadership of Photon project to Link until he finds
Synopsis of Case Study: Dr. Goh (Project Head) appointed Newbridge as a project head of Photon Corrlator project about 2 year ago. Newbridge is in laboratory trying to figure out a solution for a problem that keeps on rising during his tests. Lester Zapf (a mathematician) walks in and starts to look over plans and preliminary results of Newbridges project after introducing himself. He makes some remarks about autocorrelation functions, which Newbridge does not understand and that annoyed him. Newbridge goes to Dr. Goh to find out little more information about Zapf, and Goh asks him what he thinks of Zapf. He tells Newbridge that he is plans to take him on and ask if it will be okay with him if he can joins Newbridge’s team. After saying yes to Goh, Newbridge starts to worry about his own position without asking any further details about Zapf. Newbridge let Zapf takes control of his projects and let him undermine his other team members. Instead of solving a conflict between him and Zapf, and Zapf and other team members he leave his project incomplete to gets job somewhere else. He writes letter to Dr. Goh about his leave by using false excuses instead of real reason for his leave. This is disappointment for Dr. Goh because now he had to temporary give leadership of Photon project to Link until he finds
Cited: McShane, S., & Von Glinow, M. A. (2010). Organizational behavior. (sixth ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Irwin. Retrieved from http://leadershiplearning.org/system/files/Leadership Style.pdf