Remember the Titans Leadership Analysis
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Running head: REMEMBER THE TITANS ANALYSIS 1Analysis of Leadership in Remember the Titans MovieName:Institution:Affiliation:
REMEMBER THE TITANS ANALYSIS 2Analysis of Leadership in Remember the Titans Movie1) Trait Theory - In your own words, briefly explain the central belief of the Trait Theoryand choose 2 traits which Coach Boone illustrated in his leadership approach. In your ownwords, briefly explain the traits you have chosen and provide relevant examples from themovie for each. (5) a) Trait Theory: The trait theory explains that the personalities of individuals consists of broaddispositions. A trait is a something that makes individuals to act in a certain way. There are threemajor trait types, cardinal, central and secondary. Cardinal traits are those that dominate aperson’s whole life and one becomes known due to this. Central traits are general characteristics,which forms foundations of a person’s personality (Clarke, 2013). Secondary traits are related toone’s attitude or preferences and appear only in a certain situation.b) Trait: Cardinal traits are those, which dominate Coach Boone’s life, and in this case, he is adiplomatic leader (Nahavandi, 2016). He applies diplomacy wherever he can and his ultimateaim is to ensure that the team comes together.c) Trait: Secondary traits appeared when Coach Boone had to handle the situation when theplayers first met and interacted. Here, he had to be dictatorial so that he could bring the teamtogether as some players were undermining his efforts.2) Hershey Blanchard’s Situational Model - In your own words, briefly explain the central belief ofthe Hershey Blanchard’s Situational Model. Refer to Hershey Blanchard’s levels of employeereadiness - what level of follower readiness do you feel the players were at? Explain. Did their levelof readiness change throughout the movie? Explain. Provide examples to support your response.Which leadership style did Coach Boone illustrate in order to address this stage? In your ownwords, briefly explain the leadership style you chose and provide relevant examples from the movie,which support your response. (5) a) Hershey-Blanchard Model: This model is based on the pillars of leadership style and maturitylevel of the people being led. The leadership styles emanate from four behaviors, which aretelling, selling, participating and delegating.
REMEMBER THE TITANS ANALYSIS 3b) Level of follower readiness: The followers were at the M1 stage. At this stage, they did nothave experience and had to be instructed on everything that they needed to do. In the movie, theplayers from both teams segregated themselves and were unwilling to play as a team (Vergara,2014). The newness of the teams and the racial hostility displayed by the community made itdifficult for them to collaborate.c) Leadership style: Telling style of Leadership was used by Coach Boone in this stage. Here hesimply told all the members what to do and how they would do it. He provided specificinstructions. Here, Coach Boone is approached by two players, Gary and Ray, who want todictate to him how things should run but publicly dismisses (Breunig, 2014).3) Path-Goal Model - In your own words, briefly explain the central belief of the Path-GoalModel. This model contains four leadership styles – choose two, which most accuratelyillustrate Coach Boone’s approach. In your own words, briefly explain each style you havechosen and provide relevant examples from the movie for each. (5) a) Path-Goal Model: The path-goal model theory is based on specifying the style of a leader or abehaviors which best suits employees and work environments so that they can achieve goals. Theaim is to increase motivation, empowerment and satisfaction so that employees becomeproductive (Artiz & Walker, 2014). The path-goal model has four styles of leadership namelydirective, supportive, participative and achievement.b) Leadership style: Coach Boone is directive in his leadership style as he encourages hisplayers to achieve objectives. He gives them specific guidance and comes up with clear andrigorous schedules and policies so that the team can succeed. This can be demonstrated when heinforms the team, “We will be perfect in every aspect. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You missa blocking assignment, you run a mile. You make a fumble, I will take you and break your JohnBrowns and then you will run a mile. Perfection.” (Leary 2013).
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