Untitled Essay, Research Paper

1. Conservative

From the introduction, we know that the performance has begun to suffer under

Jack’s style of leadership. It is mainly due to the personality of Jack.

He is a quite conservative person who has a tendency to maintain a state

of affairs without great or sudden change. Also, his style of leadership

is task and production-oriented. Task-oriented leadership tends to emphasize

task effectiveness. So, from the case, we can see that he would turn down

the subordinates* suggestion whenever new ideas come. Jack seems to define

role and tell people what, how, when and where to do various tasks only.

On the other hand, Jack isn’t a relationship-oriented leader as he

doesn’t emphasize the building of relationships with employees. Accordingly,

Jack can’t maintain a good relationship with his subordinates. In his

mind, he thinks that there is no equality status between the superior and

the subordinates. He would highly respect the superior order without questioning.

Thus, we can see that Jack is very loyal to Carfax Corporation and works

hard to follow the company policies and procedures and the orders of the

managers above him.

Under such leader, the performance of the financial section has begun to

suffer. Due to his conservative personality, the tendency to face changes

is very low. When sudden changes occur and as the same time the upper

doesn’t give guidelines immediately, Jack can’t handle well under

this situation. Then the flexibility and imagination in facing different

situations tend to absolutely low. Because his task-oriented leadership,

he always neglects the new ideas and unresponsive to change.

Mostly important, Jack doesn’t realize the importance of staff motivation.

Subordinates think that the budget in their section is comparatively lower

than other department. As a result, they feel they are underpaid and overworked.

Overwork implies that the shortage of workforce. And underpaid mean that

the workload is greater than the payment for it. As Jack has such

“easygoing” manner, considerable dissatisfaction in the department is

resulted and everyone thinks that Jack is just a puppet for management.

2. Team Work

Not only the conservative personalities cause the financial section to suffer,

but also he has neglected the importance of team work. Team work means that

two or more people who interact with an influence each other towards a common

interest. Financial section is actually a team work. However, from the case,

we can see that Jack doesn’t manage his subordinates to be a team work.

Instead, he looks them as labors. He only orders his subordinates what to

do and how to do without any subordinates* ideas. Then it just like a factory

labor who is in the assembly line does a task within the instruction and

guidelines. On the contrast, an effective team can facilitate cooperation

and improve employee morale. So, team work can increase job satisfaction.

Also, implementing work teams allows managers to redirect their energy toward

bigger issues such as long-term plans. Furthermore, if the manager can move

decision-making vertically down to teams, it allows the organization greater

flexibility for faster decisions. Because team members are closer to those

problems, they are more familiar with the situation and can easily solve

them. For this reason, team work performance is higher than the same job

achieved by the same individuals working alone. Due to Jack’s style

of leadership, direct participation of subordinates in the financial section

is nearly absent. If the subordinates can have more direct participation,

they would be more understanding and supportive of organizational decisions.

As the direct participation is so low that the subordinates feel that Jack

never really pushes hard enough for a more substantial slice of the budget.

As a result, the dissatisfactions among the subordinates occurred. Then the

turnover rate and absenteeism may be high under Jack’s style of leadership.

Inefficient and inefficiency may be resulted. In this way, the performance

for financial section has begun to suffer under Jack’s style of leadership.