Leadership Scenario

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Leadership Scenario

The presented scenario has many issues that make the relationship between Judy and her senior appear constrained. My first concern in that there seems to be a high level of insubordination, mainly emanating from Judy. After working in the organization for a while, Judy started judging and criticizing her senior's decisions. This means that Judy did not fully respect Jan and did not believe in the leaders' vision. Lack of trust in a leader clearly indicates that Judy did not fully submit to the company's management.

Secondly, I noted the concern of communication breakdown. Indeed, managers can also make mistakes, but as a good employee, Judy should not have talked with his colleagues. Instead, she should have approached Jan and discuss what she felt was not right. This way, the prevailing issues would have been solved. However, Jan can also be partially blamed by failing to initiate communication with other junior employees. If Jan had given employees an opportunity, the current concern would have been solved.

Based on the information given in the scenario, Judy is making the gravest mistake. First, she questions Jan’s decisions. Having differences in opinion in an organization is not the problem, but how we handle it determines how effective the problem can be solved. In this case, after questioning Jan's styles of managing people and operations, Judy decided to conspires and talks about her senior with other employees. This is a grave mistake for her career. The manager may perceive her a someone who is unsatisfied with her work and can therefore terminate her.

Secondly, Judy is making their gravest mistake because she thinks Jan is a stickler for policy. People and resources cannot be managed without procedures. Also, management styles vary from one leader to another. So, Judy should not consider Jan as a stickler of policy, but rather recognize that Jan's style of doing things and needs to be respected. By so doing, Judy would realize that she needed to align herself with the management styles of doing things instead of complaining all the time.

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