Case Study: Affiliative Leadership for Conflict Management
The scenario that I have chosen for my case study is scenario 3. As the manager at an organization, I have two employees working for me that are having conflict between them that is creating a difficult working environment for all of the team members.
Preferred Leadership Styles There are several leadership styles, and all of them have positive and negative attributes associated with them. There are also different organizational climates and situations that are best handled with different styles. There are six different approaches to leadership styles that Daniel Goleman, noted psychologist and author identifies. Those include: commanding democratic, pacesetting, coaching, visionary …show more content…
The affiliative style places greater importance on individuals over performance (Preston, Moon, Simon, Allen & Kossi, 2015). Visionary leadership is my secondary style. Visionary leadership helps followers to see the big picture and helps them to realize the part that they play in it (Preston et al., 2015). Because one style of leadership is not appropriate for all situations, visionary leadership is a style that would work well with affiliative leadership. Along with my other two preferred styles, the coaching leadership appeals to me as it is a teaching oriented, mentoring style of leadership. This style has its limitations in its usefulness because it takes a lot of time to work with individuals to improve their skills and will only work if people have the desire to learn (Preston et al., 2015).
Scenario 3 Question 1: Handling the Problem The affiliative leadership style of management would be the most appropriate style to use when managing workplace conflict. With this style being people-focused, it is helpful in creating more of a team culture (Bawany, …show more content…
Additionally, I would utilize team building exercises in this situation so all the team members can feel a connection with each other and a camaraderie is developed. There are several team members that are being impacted by the conflict, which in turn makes the team less effective and causes distractions from the work that needs to be done. Strengthening the relationships will help move the two conflicting employees and the others who are feeling the effects of the conflict to a resolution so their focus can turn to the company objectives (MSG Experts,
The scenario that I have chosen for my case study is scenario 3. As the manager at an organization, I have two employees working for me that are having conflict between them that is creating a difficult working environment for all of the team members.
Preferred Leadership Styles There are several leadership styles, and all of them have positive and negative attributes associated with them. There are also different organizational climates and situations that are best handled with different styles. There are six different approaches to leadership styles that Daniel Goleman, noted psychologist and author identifies. Those include: commanding democratic, pacesetting, coaching, visionary …show more content…
The affiliative style places greater importance on individuals over performance (Preston, Moon, Simon, Allen & Kossi, 2015). Visionary leadership is my secondary style. Visionary leadership helps followers to see the big picture and helps them to realize the part that they play in it (Preston et al., 2015). Because one style of leadership is not appropriate for all situations, visionary leadership is a style that would work well with affiliative leadership. Along with my other two preferred styles, the coaching leadership appeals to me as it is a teaching oriented, mentoring style of leadership. This style has its limitations in its usefulness because it takes a lot of time to work with individuals to improve their skills and will only work if people have the desire to learn (Preston et al., 2015).
Scenario 3 Question 1: Handling the Problem The affiliative leadership style of management would be the most appropriate style to use when managing workplace conflict. With this style being people-focused, it is helpful in creating more of a team culture (Bawany, …show more content…
Additionally, I would utilize team building exercises in this situation so all the team members can feel a connection with each other and a camaraderie is developed. There are several team members that are being impacted by the conflict, which in turn makes the team less effective and causes distractions from the work that needs to be done. Strengthening the relationships will help move the two conflicting employees and the others who are feeling the effects of the conflict to a resolution so their focus can turn to the company objectives (MSG Experts,