When people get a job, they may be nervous or very excited, but they never expect the management to be so bad they will want to quit. This is what happened to Beverly at Gridlock Meadows. Knowing the management style of your employer or supervisor can help you with problems in the long run. This paper will focus on four different management styles and how they could be used in Gridlock Meadows.
Organization Definition
Organizations are social entities that are goal directed, are designed as deliberately structured and coordinated activity systems, and are linked to the external environment (Kirst-Ashman, 2011). The four main parts of that definition are social entity, goal directed, deliberately structured, and link to external environment. This part of the paper will pin point how Gridlock Meadows fits each of those four main parts. A social entity is when an organization is made up of people with all their strengths and failings. Gridlock Meadows meets this definition because it is made up of workers who want to help young male adults, and it is made up of young male adults with behavioral and social problems. Next is goal directed, meaning they exist for a specific purpose. Gridlock Meadows exists to help young adult males with behavioral and emotional problems and their families, through things like individual and group counseling.
Not only does an organization have to be deliberately structured but it has to have coordinated activity systems this means clusters of activities performed by designated unites or departments (Kirst-Ashman, 2011). It also includes policies for how the organization should be run. Some of Gridlock Meadows policies are requiring employees to sign in and out of work, having a supervisor like Bambi...
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...011). Goals are statements of expected outcomes dealing with the problem that the program is attempting to prevent; they also are responsive to problems and needs (Kirst-Ashman, 2011). Goals for Gridlock Meadows would be assist the family in developing improved communication, problem-solving skills and to understand their child’s emotional needs.
If Beverly knew about this management styles before heading into the job at Gridlock Meadows she might have been more prepared for what was about to come. This paper might have come off a little bias but remember that each management style has its positive aspects as well as negative ones. The key is recognizing the management style and how to work with each one you may encounter.
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Leadership is the defining factor of a successful organization today. With the large number of companies in the world, there are just as many leadership styles. Understanding the different leadership styles is vital to the development of a management team as well as the organization. Matching the leadership style with the type needed for the organization in that point in time will impact the company in a positive manor. We can see examples of that in large corporations that will experience a shift in management when the level of production falls under a certain benchmark. The Blake Mouton Managerial Grid consists of five different leadership styles. The different styles outline the behaviours, traits, attitudes and focuses of the various leadership styles. The five styles are; Country Club, Impoverished, Middle of the Road, Team Leader, Produce or Perish leader. The model outlines how emphasizing on a particular area such as production could have negative repercussions onto another such as people. The grid is based on the idea that when the concern for both production and people are high, employee engagement and production will rise as well.
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