Assignment:
Leadership & Management: Leadership Consultant Analysis
Note: All scenarios in this assignment are fictional.
Real Business
It can be difficult for a business to improve how it operates from inside the organization. Sometimes, an outside perspective is needed. The large discount retail store you work for wants to improve its in-store restaurant management team.
Your Role
Companies like Target and Walmart often works with outside consultants-people who are not employees of the company but who are hired on a contract basis to help with a specific project. As a Leadership Consultant, you've been hired by a large discount retail company to help the company improve its leadership structure and approach to management.
What is a Leadership Consultant?
Instructions
Step 1: Organizational Structure
Take a look at the Organization Chart provided by the company.
· Based on your knowledge of hierarchies, would you say that this team has tall structure or flat structure? Explain your answer in 1-3 sentences.
Step 2: Human Resources
The company would like to improve the culture of its team and the quality of its work. Its leadership has provided you with a Process Chart detailing how it currently applies Human Resources best practices.
· What step of the Human Resources Cycle is missing? In 2-5 sentences, explain why it is important to include this part of the process.
Note: You should complete Step 3 after reading the material.
Step 3: Leadership Style
You have been asked to help improve the leadership style of the team leader in order to meet the team's performance goals. The team leader has given you a description of what is most comfortable in terms of leading others.
· Identify this leader's style of leadership, and list two benefits and two drawbacks to that style as it relates to the performance of the team.