1. Using the Hershey Blanchard Model, which leadership style do you feel would be most appropriate for this scenario? Justify your response. Which level of employee readiness is this employee at?
• You have recently been made head of a new department. In getting to know your team, you have noticed that one of your inexperienced employees is not following through on assigned tasks, even though she is excited to learn about her job.
2. Using the Path-Goal Model, which leadership style do you feel would be most appropriate for this scenario? Justify your response.
• Your department has been given the responsibility for a very important project. You have made sure that the staff understands their roles and required level of performance. They are competent in their jobs but have become discouraged in the progress they are making.
3. Using the Path-Goal Model, which leadership style do you feel would be most appropriate for this scenario? Justify your response.
• You have recognized the expertise in one of your employees. She is creative, competent and uses good judgment in her daily work life. There is a new project coming that you feel she could handle, however when you approached her, she said no because she does not feel confident in her own ability to perform the job tasks.