Leadership Practice

The Vice President of operations recently promoted you to branch manager and moved you to a new branch office where the morale among employees is low and performance is poor. Of the five employees, Amani has the most tenure with six years. Amani seems to have the lowest morale and is not motivated to do the work, although he is quite capable of doing it successfully. Bassmah has been with the company for four years but has not mastered the new software and is performing at a low level even three months after being trained on the software. Hadeel also has four years with the company and Rawan has two years. Hadeel and Rawan are responsible for client contact, and while in the past they worked well together on reaching out to clients, now there are conflicts and low morale. Samah has been with the company just three months and does not understand what is expected on the job and is contemplating leaving the company.

Approach the case as the branch manager well versed in situational leadership. 

• Explain situational leadership to your Vice President.
• Determine the readiness level of each employee and explain your reasoning.
• Determine the appropriate leader behavior to match the employee level and explain your reasoning.
• Develop a plan of action as to how you will lead each person to higher performance and morale and explain it to your Vice President.

Directions:

• Write an essay that includes an introduction paragraph, the essay’s body, and a conclusion paragraph to address the assignment’s guide questions. Do not address the questions using a question-and-answer format. 

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be 3-5 pages in length, which does not include the title and reference pages, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements. 
• Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.
• Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least two current, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. Current articles are those published in the last five years.
• It is strongly encouraged that you submit all assignments to the Turnitin Originality Check prior to submitting it to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment to the Originality Check tool, review the Turnitin Originality Check–Student Guide for step-by-step instructions.

In advance of submission, review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.

Doctor instruction:

 Module 3

Class

For Module 3, we focus on Situational and Contingency approaches to leadership.

You will need to read Chapter 5 in the textbook, the required articles, and the Interactive Lecture.

We have another CT this week, for which you will need to read the scenario and then develop an essay in the following format:

SEU Cover Page

Introduction – tell your reader what you are writing about

Situational Leadership (APA level 2 heading)

          Here, I need to see you explain what situational leadership is to your Vice president.

Readiness Level (APA Level 2 heading)

          Here, you need to determine the readiness level of each of the five employees and explain your reasoning.

Amani (level 3) – explain the readiness level of this employee.

Bassmah (level 3) – explain the readiness level of this employee.

Hadeel (level 3) – explain the readiness level of this employee.

Rawan (level 3) – explain the readiness level of this employee.

Samah (level 3) – explain the readiness level of this employee.

Appropriate Leader Behavior (APA Level 2 heading)

           Here, you need to determine the appropriate leader behavior to match the employee’s level and explain your reasoning.

Amani (level 3) – determine the leader behavior of this employee and explain.

Bassmah (level 3) – determine the leader behavior of this employee and explain.

Hadeel (level 3) – determine the leader behavior of this employee and explain.

Rawan (level 3) – determine the leader behavior of this employee and explain.

Samah (level 3) – determine the leader behavior of this employee and explain.

Action Plan (APA Level 2 heading)

          Here, you need to develop a plan of action as to how YOU will lead each person to higher performance and morale and explain it to your Vice President.

Conclusion – wrap up your paper.

References

 Textbook and at least two current, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.

Proper APA format

No more than 5 pages (excluding Cover page and Reference page)