Dr. Barrett Rollins was responsible for monitoring all centers performance with power to execute administrative changes at Dana-Farber. Formerly, the center allowed the faculty scientist complete autonomy over their research. Under the leadership of Dr. Rollins, some important changes were implemented to Integrative Research Centers that includes one or more faculty members designated as center leaders with unprecedented amount of institutional financial resources to carry out center’s activity. However, center funds cannot be used for projects initiated in leader’s lab and the expectation was to be financially independent after five years. The center leaders need to frame research proposal plan, achieve milestones and undergo eight-point performance
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The report of oversight committee annual meeting about CNTC performance was extremely disappointing for Dr. Rollins as it exposed the problems responsible for center shortcomings. The problems that needs to get fixed quickly and efficiently as possible are:
Organizational culture2 (Chapter 2, Page 32): The organization had no management control among brilliant faculty scientists and created stressful situation between Woods and Sheikh. The strong culture at Dana-Farber prevented cross-team collaboration and hindered the center progress as laid down in business …show more content…
The dispute between them was extremely unprofessional and irresponsible. The heated conflict and incompatibility resulted in serious negative implications.
Out-group exchange2 (Chapter 14, page 383): Based on the Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Model the kind of relationship between faculty scientists failed to create sense of mutual trust, respect and common fate. In addition, there was widespread mistrust of the integrated center system.
Leadership style2 (Chapter 14, page 377): The leadership style of both Dr. Rollins and Woods was questionable. Dr. Rollins laissez-faire style of leadership could be the reason for centers shortcomings. He never trusted Woods administrative and management skills and still was made head of CNTC. Whereas, Woods is self-motivated for the kind of research he does and never cared of becoming effective leader.
Finances: Financial management within the CNTC was unclear. The entire budget planned for year 1 in the business plan was spent and expensive lab equipment was purchased raising serious question whether CNTC will be financially independent in 5 years of
The report of oversight committee annual meeting about CNTC performance was extremely disappointing for Dr. Rollins as it exposed the problems responsible for center shortcomings. The problems that needs to get fixed quickly and efficiently as possible are:
Organizational culture2 (Chapter 2, Page 32): The organization had no management control among brilliant faculty scientists and created stressful situation between Woods and Sheikh. The strong culture at Dana-Farber prevented cross-team collaboration and hindered the center progress as laid down in business …show more content…
The dispute between them was extremely unprofessional and irresponsible. The heated conflict and incompatibility resulted in serious negative implications.
Out-group exchange2 (Chapter 14, page 383): Based on the Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Model the kind of relationship between faculty scientists failed to create sense of mutual trust, respect and common fate. In addition, there was widespread mistrust of the integrated center system.
Leadership style2 (Chapter 14, page 377): The leadership style of both Dr. Rollins and Woods was questionable. Dr. Rollins laissez-faire style of leadership could be the reason for centers shortcomings. He never trusted Woods administrative and management skills and still was made head of CNTC. Whereas, Woods is self-motivated for the kind of research he does and never cared of becoming effective leader.
Finances: Financial management within the CNTC was unclear. The entire budget planned for year 1 in the business plan was spent and expensive lab equipment was purchased raising serious question whether CNTC will be financially independent in 5 years of