Posted: September 13th, 2017

132 LEADERSHIP l THEORY AND PRACTICE

132 LEADERSHIP l THEORY AND PRACTICE

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Questions

I. According to Figure 6. I , what category does this situation fall into?

2. Will Bill be successful in his efforts to run the holiday program?

3. Should the school administration make any changes regarding Bill’s

position?

CA5 E 6.3

What’s the Best Leader Match?

Universal Drugs is a family-owned pharmaceutical company that manufac-
tures generic drugs such as aspirin and vitamin pills. The owners of the
company have expressed a strong interest in making the management of
the company, which traditionally has been very authoritarian, more team-
work oriented.

To design and implement the new management structure, the own-
ers have decided to create a new position.The person in this position
would report directly to the owners and have complete freedom to
conduct performance reviews of all managers directly involved in the
new system.Two employees from within the company have applied for
the new position.

Martha Lee has been with Universal for IS years and has been voted
by her peers “most outstanding manager” on three different occasions.
She is friendly, honest. and extremely conscientious about reaching short-
term and long-term goals. When given the LPC scale by the personnel
department, Martha received a score of 52.

Bill Washington came to Universal 5 years ago with an advanced
degree in organizational development. He is director of training, where all
of his subordinates say he is the most caring manager they have ever had.
While at Universal, Bill has built a reputation for being a real people per-
son. Reflecting his reputation is his score on the LPC scale, an 89.

Chapter 6 I ContingencyTheory 133

Questions

I- According to contingency theory, which of the two applicants should
the new owner choose to head the new management structure?Why?

I Could the owner define the new position according to contingency
theory in such a way that it would qualify one of the applicants more
than the other?

3. Will Universal Drugs benefit by using contingency theory in its deci-
sion making regarding its new management structure?

LEADERSHIP INSTRUMENT -T
1‘.-.e LPC scale is used in contingency theory to measure a person’s leader-
i’Lj.: style. For example, it measures your style by having you describe a
an arker with whom you had difficulty completing a job. This need not
E 3 coworker you disliked a great deal but rather someone with whom you
Ttjci liked to work. After you have selected this person, the LPC instru-
asks you to describe your coworker on 18 sets of adjectives.

Lair LPCS are task motivated. Their primary needs are to accomplish
and their secondary needs are focused on getting along with people.
I: .a work setting, they are concerned with achieving success on assigned
85. even at the cost of poor interpersonal relationships with coworkers.
L1 LPCS gain self-esteem by achieving their goals. They may attend to
l‘It:‘Tp€1’Son€ll relationships, but only after they first have directed them-
this toward the tasks of the group.

‘-fiddle LPCs are socioindependent. In the context of work, they are
2-I-directed and not overly concerned with the task or with how others
2-3 them. They are more removed from the situation and act more inde-
grdently than low or high LPCS.

High LPCs are motivated by relationships. These people derive their
nzor satisfaction in an organization from interpersonal relationships. A
LPC sees positive qualities even in the coworker she or he least pre-
and even if the high LPC does not work well with that person. In an
C;_3.TllZatiOI1€ll setting, the high LPC attends to tasks, but only after she or
5-: ;s certain that the relationships between people are in good shape.

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