Harvey is considering implementing team-building management in his company. He wants to start with teams that work on the produc
tion line. He wants groups of five to fifteen people, responsible for one clearly defined product, and he wants them trained to be able to perform each other's tasks. Harvey believes that effective teams permit free expression of feelings as well as ideas, have members who listen to each other, and have well-understood tasks and objectives. Cynthia is a first-line supervisor in Harvey's company. She has a high, balanced valuing of both her people and their productivity. She seeks to be proactive in her management and works hard at rewarding the contribution of ideas and recognizing accomplishments. William, in contrast, is far more task-oriented and is more concerned with production than with his people. To William, employees are instruments of production. Refer to Case 12.1. Assuming William possesses a certain amount of self-awareness, he would be well advised to 1) communicate his expectations more.
2) work on developing his emotional intelligence.
3) adjust his leadership style and behaviors so as to prevent unhappiness and dissension among the employees.
1) Communicating his expectations more would eventually make his team understand clearly the goal setting
2) Work on developing his emotional intelligence as william would be able to get things done even when there is crisis through his intelligence
3) Adjust his leadership styles and behaviours so as to prevent unhappiness and dissension among the employees as if he is not rigid all the time and keeps on changing his thought process as per the needs, he can for sure get things done and make others employees happy.
Yes, I have. “confused problems with symptoms" refers to a situation when we see the side effect of a problem as the most crucial thing to handle rather than the core of the problem itself. For example, let's say that you cannot find fit clothings because you're overweight. If your solution to this problem is to write a letter of complain to the company and demanding so they could produce suitable sized clothing for you (rather than losing weight), You're confusing problems with the symtoms.
If an employee make a decision at work it does not automatically mean that he is a manager. Yes, everyone can make decision but only the good manager can differentiate the good from the bad decisions.
The Manager's job is not only to make decisions. His job is, as its name is saying, to manage people, decisions, plans etc.
When a company decides to diverge its existing resources (in this question is the talented staff free time) to invent and develop a new product, this is a form of product innovation. Product innovation might be either defined as the development of a new product, or introduction of new features/applications or improvement to the performance of an existing product.
