Leadership and Knowledge Management

First Task (Mag. Roland Graf)

For our first virtual room I provided deeper insights in the concept of
Leadership introduced by Hersey and Blanchard (perhaps you still remember
the last chart?):

What to do:

Read the ideas carefully and then, for this lecture I would ask you to
reflect on two things: What is your personally preferred style according to
this theory?

The question, I would like you to answer (via mail until the end of September 2014),
is: "Which situational leadership style should the leader use in the following
examples? “

Please also give a short reason for your decision and reflect on how easy it was for
you to decide, which style to choose.

You’re the boss now!

Five Situations to cope with

1 Miss Donahue has just joined the team, and you haven’t yet had the time
to introduce her, what kind of work your team does. At the same time, she
loves the idea of working as a trainee in your company and wants to get a
good reference for her future work.

I would use leadership-style………………………………………….

Why?

2 Doctor Singh is an experienced surgeon, who was reluctant to accept the

position of an instructor for students working during their education at
your hospital (“Turnus”).

I would use leadership-style………………………………………….

Why?
 3 You are medical director of the hospital, where Martin Trawyer is working
as deputy head of the Neurosurgery (“Oberarzt”) for eight years. He
joined the station, when it was separated form the larger surgery
department. Due to an illness of the Station’s head, Primarius
Rokitansky, who replaced Dr. Trawyer’s boss three years ago, he
volunteered to head the station.

I would use leadership-style………………………………………….

Why?

4 Carlo Giannoni joined your team, when his own department, a small unit
for marketing pharmaceutical products your company also offers, was shut.
As a skilled texter he is working as a secretary now. He feels underrated
sometimes, but you decided to let him manage a logistics project, as you
have no marketing project in the moment.

I would use leadership-style………………………………………….

Why?

5 The head of your new Marketing-Team is Anna Sacora, she was hired from a
highly respected advertising agency and is very experienced. Up to now she
has implemented the milestones of the project efficiently. “I think,
it’s a great idea!”, she told you lately.

I would use leadership-style………………………………………….

Why?