Wednesday, September 1, 2010

MGT502 Assignment # 2 Solution

Transition to Leadership:
Mr. Fahad, Imran and Ibrahim were promoted within their organizations into management
positions. Each one of them found the transition as a challenge.
Mr. Fahad was promoted as director of catering for the Decent group of restaurants. With the
promotion, he realized that things would never be the same again. As a matter of fact he would no
longer to able to participate in gossips and chit-chat with colleagues. He explains his new role as
director as demoralizing. “At first I was very harsh, making statement like you can either work my
way or take the highway to home. In all this I was forgetting that my friends and colleagues were
also in transition”. He admitted that his style alienated about everyone with whom he worked.
Mr. Imran was promoted to technical manager from being a junior programmer. He talks about the
uncertainty he felt: “It was challenging to be suddenly giving orders to your peers, when just the
day before you were one of them. You always try to be careful not to offend anyone. It’s really
strange when you walk into a room and suddenly the whole conversation changes. People don’t
want to be open when you are a boss”.
Mr. Ibrahim is promoted as the president of Adamjee Insurance Company. He started as a customer
relation officer in the company and then left behind his colleagues in number of promotions to the
present position. It is his quick rise which created problems. He says “colleagues would say
different things and only God knows what they talked about behind my back.”
These are some issues which need to be solved. At this condition,
Solution:
Q.1: What will you suggest for these three persons? What leadership style they should adopt for the
smooth transition. Please explain in your own wards with valid reasons and points. (Marks: 15)
Answer:
Adopting a specific leadership style requires vigorous and in-depth initial analysis of the
subordinates under command. It is very important to choose style incongruence with the
atmosphere and nature of the subordinates.
Mr.Fahad’s example suggests that he can adopt participative and supportive style. Most of the
subordinates now are his friends, so he can achieve goals more effectively and efficiently if he uses
participative and supportive styles. He should avoid directive and autocrative approach, which has
alienated him.
In case of Mr. Imran, the employees are not open to communicate their new boss, rather they
hesitate. Here it is very important for Mr.Imran to implement participative/Democratic style of
leadership with achievement-oriented style. He must take all on board while making any decision
so that they can feel themselves part of the organization.
Mr.Ibrahim quotation suggests that his subordinates are hard-to-handle and are involved in back
biting. He needs to adopt autocrative style to deal with them. He is required to deal them
autocratively to keep them on track.
Q.2: Explain the advantages and disadvantages associated with promoting internally to a leadership
position. (Marks: 15)
Answer:
Advantages:
 Source of motivation
 Less risky and less costly
 Familiarity with organizational culture
 In depth understanding of strengths and weaknesses of organization
 Know how of organizational issues
 Less time consuming
 Rapport with employees
 Internal promotion vacant other post to fill
Disadvantages:
 De-motivation within existing staff
 New leadership acceptance issues
 Coworkers may resent promotion
 Small pool of candidates to consider
 Internal promoter may lack the required skills and experience

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