Tents-R-Us Case Study
Topic
Leadership Practice in Tents-r-Us
Introduction
Tents-r-Us located in Blacksburg. It is providing tents rental serving such as tents, tables, chairs, dance floors and lighting for any events like outdoor wedding parties, birthday parties, graduation parties. “It is quite difficult to run a business with insufficient knowledge and experience” (Khatri, 2012, pp. 130). Therefore, Tents-r-Us found Peter Ridge to be the entrepreneur who is the leading the business growth since 1991. And this assignment focuses on the leadership practice in Tents-r-Us in the case study. The contribution of this assignment is to outline and discuss the ways in which leadership practice in Tents-r-Us demonstrates aspects of early leadership theories and approaches; to examine the strengths and weaknesses of such leadership practice for Tents-r-Us continued success and growth.
Outline of using leadership in Tents-r-Us
What is a leader? Why do Tents-r-Us need leadership? According to Joseph (1991), every organizations require leadership. “Leaders care a lot more than they cure, connect a lot more than they control, demonstrate a lot more than they decide” (Mintzberg, 2004, pp.1). …show more content…
This is an important aspect that lack of human resources in Tents-r-Us. The leadership style of Tents-r-Us can be more situational. Different leadership styles depends on different situations that “ it has stood the test of time in the marketplace and used for training leaders in the company”. (Barker, 1992; Northouse, 2009; Yukl, 1989, pp. 2). Similar to situational style, Fiedler suggested contingency style which may help to shift away the failure of Tents-r-Us from Peter Ridge (Fiedler et. al., 1995; Willy, 2012). These can make the leadership style of Tents-r-Us becomes more flexibility and human-based management which can achieve the success of its
Leadership Practice in Tents-r-Us
Introduction
Tents-r-Us located in Blacksburg. It is providing tents rental serving such as tents, tables, chairs, dance floors and lighting for any events like outdoor wedding parties, birthday parties, graduation parties. “It is quite difficult to run a business with insufficient knowledge and experience” (Khatri, 2012, pp. 130). Therefore, Tents-r-Us found Peter Ridge to be the entrepreneur who is the leading the business growth since 1991. And this assignment focuses on the leadership practice in Tents-r-Us in the case study. The contribution of this assignment is to outline and discuss the ways in which leadership practice in Tents-r-Us demonstrates aspects of early leadership theories and approaches; to examine the strengths and weaknesses of such leadership practice for Tents-r-Us continued success and growth.
Outline of using leadership in Tents-r-Us
What is a leader? Why do Tents-r-Us need leadership? According to Joseph (1991), every organizations require leadership. “Leaders care a lot more than they cure, connect a lot more than they control, demonstrate a lot more than they decide” (Mintzberg, 2004, pp.1). …show more content…
This is an important aspect that lack of human resources in Tents-r-Us. The leadership style of Tents-r-Us can be more situational. Different leadership styles depends on different situations that “ it has stood the test of time in the marketplace and used for training leaders in the company”. (Barker, 1992; Northouse, 2009; Yukl, 1989, pp. 2). Similar to situational style, Fiedler suggested contingency style which may help to shift away the failure of Tents-r-Us from Peter Ridge (Fiedler et. al., 1995; Willy, 2012). These can make the leadership style of Tents-r-Us becomes more flexibility and human-based management which can achieve the success of its