Leadership Case Study
1. Introduction
Leadership went through a long evolution process. From the innate leadership to acquired traits, Leadership has always been a process which competes for others' help and support and achieves a common goal (Martin M. Chemers 1997). Leadership decided to enterprise size, strength, success or failure. To a certain extent, it is the most important factors leading to the success or failure of the enterprise, the more power of the leadership, the higher level of the enterprise (JunHao Chen 2011).
The main purpose of this report is to evaluate leadership method of Kirsty conforms to the modern leadership theory and further research on the advantages and weakness of his leadership. This report focused on the current most popular topic in business word.
According to the case study, all her sandwich factory senior management team is made up of women. Sandwich Company and its leader Kirsty made the change of Leader-member exchange (LMX), Path-goal theory and 'New' leadership. Kirsty delegated more power to his staff and trusted staff to be fully committed and is open to ideas. The staff were happy and enjoying their devolved responsibility. The leadership theory has been integrated into Kirsty’s leadership style. Modern leadership approach in Sandwich Company was developed, and helped enterprises to further open the market.
This research of the report is mean that the model of modern leadership approach has become a tendency which widely used in development of modern enterprise.
After thorough research and analysis, development of leadership in Sandwich Company has been a success. Kirsty said that change never stops. Therefore, the modern leadership will be an important part of enterprise adjustment.
2. Literature Review
2.1 Path-goal Theory approach
In many different types of modern leadership approach, the Path-goal Theory approach is the primary one. The theory argues that leader depending on the different situation and nature needs different
Leadership went through a long evolution process. From the innate leadership to acquired traits, Leadership has always been a process which competes for others' help and support and achieves a common goal (Martin M. Chemers 1997). Leadership decided to enterprise size, strength, success or failure. To a certain extent, it is the most important factors leading to the success or failure of the enterprise, the more power of the leadership, the higher level of the enterprise (JunHao Chen 2011).
The main purpose of this report is to evaluate leadership method of Kirsty conforms to the modern leadership theory and further research on the advantages and weakness of his leadership. This report focused on the current most popular topic in business word.
According to the case study, all her sandwich factory senior management team is made up of women. Sandwich Company and its leader Kirsty made the change of Leader-member exchange (LMX), Path-goal theory and 'New' leadership. Kirsty delegated more power to his staff and trusted staff to be fully committed and is open to ideas. The staff were happy and enjoying their devolved responsibility. The leadership theory has been integrated into Kirsty’s leadership style. Modern leadership approach in Sandwich Company was developed, and helped enterprises to further open the market.
This research of the report is mean that the model of modern leadership approach has become a tendency which widely used in development of modern enterprise.
After thorough research and analysis, development of leadership in Sandwich Company has been a success. Kirsty said that change never stops. Therefore, the modern leadership will be an important part of enterprise adjustment.
2. Literature Review
2.1 Path-goal Theory approach
In many different types of modern leadership approach, the Path-goal Theory approach is the primary one. The theory argues that leader depending on the different situation and nature needs different