France And Al's Leadership

1.Based on the information provided, describe France’s and Al’s leadership styles.
Frances and Al have two very different leadership styles. Frances works well with external sources such as politicians, and business leaders in the state. She makes the big decisions internally, but her downfall is that she’s so involved externally that she not as involved internally. The leadership style she portrays lines up well with the Path-Goal Theory. She is directive and participative by setting up guidelines, and delegating the responsibilities of her three vice presidents that handle most of the internal operations for her. She is supportive, although she isn’t involved internally she is representing the University very well and worked hard to get the state to budget them more money. Which means more pay raises for faculty, and new library facilities. Lastly, she is achievement-oriented, the alumni club she set up on the campus totaled almost 2 million dollars. She set out for something and got great results, especially after having poor previous presidents that held the position before her. Al on the other hand is quite opposite of Frances when it comes to the way he leads in his position as a president. He works well internally and not so well externally because he’s more of a quiet guy. Al’s style …show more content…
The consideration would probably motivate her team seeing her getting more involved, making them want to do the same and take pride in their responsibilities that were assigned to them. As for Al he could have built up the school reputation in the public eye by getting more involved externally much like Frances. Although he met great achievements that he was working towards, he did lose 300 students. Working on building up the University and the reputation it obtains will be essential to regain those students and some. He could have utilized the position