Frances Workman Case Study

1. Based on the information provided, describe France’s and Al’s leadership styles. Frances Workman’s has been successful in the leadership style as president of Willard University. She had a transformational leadership style, which is an approach to motivating followers and to increase their self-confidence. She likes to create generous relationships with individuals, who are public servants, business managers and owners. She has brought encouraging morale to her faculty and students from Willard University. Also, there was Alvin Thomas, who is president of Eastern State, has been task structured, which is tasks that can be broken down into easily understood steps or parts. He created goals for what he plans to do as the president of the university. One of his main goals was to remove American Association of University Professors (AAUP). He has the achievement-oriented leadership style. He has goals that he expects his staff to follow for the greater good of the university. In addition, he accomplished the goals that

In the Martin Evans’s path-goal leadership theory, which is defined as a theory of leadership founded on expectancy idea from the study of motivation that suggests leader effectiveness rely on the degree to which a leader enrich the performance expectancies and balances of his or her subordinates. They should have the capability of execute, encouraging, understanding, helpful, and charismatic in various ways in different situations that is suitable for those capabilities of a leader to act upon. Leaders must create and communicate ambitious goals for their organizations. Leaders must have contingent reward behavior, which means a form of transactional leadership that involves clarifying performance expectations in rewarding followers when those expectations are