Managing and Leading People at Work

p SOLUTIONS FOR OUTSTANDING HRM ISSUES

2007

240HRM - Managing and Leading People at Work

Question 1 : Prioritization of the 3 issues outstanding prior to her annual leave . You will therefore need to identify the in which you addressed the items and provide a justification for doing so

Priority 1 : To appreciate and assess the role of the HR Function in the resolution of conflict and unacceptable behavior within the organization

Person and environment function in conj unction with the behavior itself and reciprocally interact to determine behavior . A person , through

his actions , produces the environmental conditions that affect his behavior in a reciprocal fashion . The experience generated by behavior also partly determines what a person becomes and can do . This in turn affects his subsequent behavior . The theory is called social learning theory because , individuals learn in an environment in the process of interacting with each other which is a social process . The application of this theory in understanding the behavior of a leader and the continuous reciprocal interaction between the person (leader 's cognitions ) and environment (including subordinates and their needs experiences , objectives in the organization , abilities , skills . energy performance . etc . known as contingencies that regulate their behavior

The three aspects of this theory of leadership assume that the leader knows how behavior is controlled by various needs , situations and experiences that he undergoes . The leader works with the subordinates to discover what those needs situations and experience . The leader and the subordinates jointly attempt to discover ways in which they can manage their individual behavior to produce mutually satisfying as well as organizationally productive outcomes . In this approach , the leader and the subordinates have a negotiable and interactive relationship . They are continuously aware of how they can modify or influence each other 's behavior by giving the rewards or holding back the performance respectively (Hughes , A .J , 1993 . Business Process Leadership and Social Sciences

Task Orientation

1 . The leader is primarily concerned about the task or production . He is concerned with his responsibility to see that the work is completed . He is called a Task-Management leader

2 The leader is primarily concerned for people and only incidentally concerned with production . The leader 's major responsibility is to establish harmonious relationships among subordinates and to provide a secure and pleasant work atmosphere . He is called as Country Club Management leader

3 The leader is concerned with neither production nor people . He tries to stay out of the way and not become involved in the conflict between the necessity for production and the attainment of good working relationship . He is called as Impoverish Management leader

4 The leader reflects a middle ground position and is called as Middle of the Road Management leader . He seeks to compromise between high production and employee satisfaction (http /www .allbusiness .com /leadership /3188440-1 .html

5 The leader is extremely concerned about the task and also the people He is concerned to see that the work accomplishment is from committed people interdependence through a `common...