Study Chapter 14 Real Case, "He’s the Best – or Is He?," found on page 468 of Organizational Behavior (11th Edition) and answer the following questions:
1. In terms of the various leadership styles described in the chapter, how would you describe Steve Wynn?
2. If you were making any suggestions to him regarding how he could improve his leadership style, what would you tell Wynn?
3. Which of the three major skills in Figure 14.6 (in the required text) would be of most value to Wynn?
In terms of the various leadership styles described in the chapter, I would describe Steve Wynn as follows:
- Charismatic Leadership Style:
- Type “Energizing”. He demonstrates personal excitement and confidence, seeking, finding, and using success. -Type “Envisioning”. He creates a picture of the future setting high expectations with which people can identify and that can generate excitement.
- Hersey and Blanchard’s lifecycle approach:
- Participating style. Wynn asks his employees to challenge their supervisors with “planned insubordination” while the followers are on the high side of maturity.
Level 5 leadership:
- Vision. His ideological vision is congruent with the deeply held values of followers.
- Confidence, Determination, and Persistence. He has a high degree of faith in himself and the attainment of his vision.
- Image Builder. He is self-conscious about his own image.
- External presentation. He is the spokesperson for the organization and represents the organization to external constituencies.
- Expectations of and confidence in followers. He communicates high performance expectations to his followers and strong confidence in his followers’ abilities to meet such expectations.
If I have to make some suggestions to him regarding how he could improve his leadership style, I would tell Wynn that he has to modify his sometimes offensive behavior. Some people are