All the Wrong Moves

Don s Personality(Big 5 Personality Model) Extraversion High spirited Gregarious

Agreeableness Good natured Avoid conflict

Conscientiousness Well organized Performer

Emotional stability Negative thinking Stress

Openness to experience Creativity Learning

Leader Manager

Michigan Leadership Studies Task-oriented behavior Relationship-oriented behavior Participative leadership

Participative Leadership I nvolvement Improves

understanding Committed

Common goals Collaborative Better decision

Styles of Participative Leadership

Autocratic

Leader decides after listening to feedback

Team proposes, Leader decides

Joint decision

Team decides

Democratic decision making style

Onus on group

Decision by majority

Democratic decision making style Group participation

No responsibility

C ollective

participative style

ea er alone Sole Involvement ma es t e of members. responsibility ecision

Cons

Pros

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Decision quality is the selection of the best alternative. It is also important when there are seriou implications for selecting (or failing to select) the best alternative.

Decision acceptance is the degree to which a follow accepts a decision made by a leader. Leaders focus more on decision acceptance when decision quality i more important.

Assumptions

Effectiveness Commitment of action Decision acceptance Participation

A1:Leader takes known information and then decides alone

A2:Leader gets information from followers and decides alon

C1: Leader shares problems with followers individually, dec alone.

C2:Leader shares problems with followers as a group, dec alone.

G2:Leader shares problems with followers as a group, colle decision.

H ow

can Don change?

Start asking more questions Create more accountability in senior managers.

Assign tasks according to the capabilities

Stop trying to shy away from conflicts and trying to reso them in private.

References y

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http://www.decision-makingconfidence.com/collective-participative-decisionmaking-style.html

Organizational Behaviour,13th edition-Robbins Judge T.A, Sanghi S.

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership s/participative_leadership.htm