leadership final submission

Situational Leadership Model

Author Note

This paper is being submitted on October 19, 2016, for Leading Change course.

SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP MODEL

DELTA PACIFIC CASE STUDY

Introduction

Situational leadership is defined as the form of leadership where the leader has to adjust his or her style of leadership contingent to the situation then or the level of development in question. This means that the leader is able to change his or style to suit a group that he or she is interested to influence.

This approach to leadership relies on the use of skills and motivation level to gauge the employee’s maturity in the work place, and their desire to accomplish given tasks respectively. As part of my change initiative, I plan to employ this model because it allows the leadership of followers based on their level of readiness.

Comparing this form of leadership to the one already in existence at Delta Pacific, the Robert House’s path-goal contingency model, it is evident that it is more efficient and that is why the change is needed. The theory of the current model approach is based on the idea that goals are achieved when some effort is put in, and a reward is given after achievement (Lipman-Blumen, 2014).

Situational Leadership Model

A situational leader can be anybody and with this approach, the management at Delta will be able to empower its employees. Some of the advantages of using this approach to leadership include; maintaining acute awareness, skillfully influencing up across the organization, the development of committed employees, efficient drive behavior and creation of more effective teams.

This form of leadership is powerful yet very flexible to allow leaders of all levels to influence others. This model is founded on the association amid leaders and the followers and it serves as a framework in which every single situation is investigated on the basis of;

· The magnitude of guidance and direction followers need.

· The magnitude of socio-emotional reinforcement a leader delivers.

· The keenness level that followers exhibit in performing a particular, responsibility.

Situational leadership is successfully implemented when leaders are able to demonstrate its four core competencies which take account of diagnosing, adapting, communicating and advancing. Diagnosing means, comprehending the situation the leader is attempting to influence, and adapting means fine tuning their behavior in response to the situation, while communicating basically stands for interaction in a manner that is acceptable to the group and finally advancing stands for managing the movement.

References

Hannay, M. (2013).A new direction for Delta Pacific-a case study. Journal of Business Cases and Applications, 8, 1.

Lipman-Blumen, J. (2014). The Essentials of Leadership: A Historical Perspective. In Conceptions of Leadership (pp. 15-37). Palgrave Macmillan US.

McCleskey, J. A. (2014). Situational, transformational, and transactional leadership and leadership development. Journal of Business Studies Quarterly, 5(4), 117.