Organizational Behavior: Hands-On vs Hands-Off Leadership Approach

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
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Table of Contents
Answer to Question 1......................................................................................................................2
Answer to Question 2......................................................................................................................5
Answer to Question 3......................................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................................12

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Answer to Question 1
Bison has been playing a key strategic role in the business domain and has been keen on
the development of various leadership competencies for the senior strategic team. He has been
taking a hands on approach in the organization since a long period of time and has develop a
large number of ways in which the different leaders can improve themselves and make them
visionary, driven, obsessive and competitive in nature (Borkowski 2015). With this respect,
Bison has been working with the executive coaching and senior leadership closely and this has
resulted in positive outcomes for the organization as well but in the past few weeks, he stopped
his direct involvement in the development program but had then developed a Human Synergistic
program according to which he believed that MeatPack needs to evolve a new structure into the
firm.
Although these programs tend to have positive impact on the firm but as some of the
decisions Bison tends to impose his own decision without even considering the adequate
competencies or the views of the senior management. This then turns out to be an awkward
situation for the management who are on one hand asked to work for the welfare of the firm and
engage in an open discussion but on the other hand get into trouble in case they discuss against
him (Elsbach, Kayes and Kayes 2015). Moreover, as his vision lies to become the chairman and
the CEO of the CEOs he often considers himself to be above all other employees which makes it
difficult to conduct decisions at a par level and has an overall negative impact on the different
employees at large.

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However, in this regard it can be rightfully stated that being a leader of an organization is
much more than just instructing the members and expecting them to work accordingly but to
actually apply those things to even their own activities. According to Luthans, Luthans and
Luthans (2015), it becomes considerably difficult to decide upon the hands on or the hands off
approach of the organization and in this regard both the approaches need to be analyzed
considerably and then one decision can be made. According to Kong (2016), as the different
organizations have become diverse in nature the managers would be required to engage in
various difficult techniques to ensure success with the team. Hence, the key points of both the
approaches are required to be analyzed.
A hands on leader can be one who is involved in the in the similar work which the
employees have been conducting. The leaders are not detached from the work of their employees
and carry out coaching and assistance in a similar manner to ensure overall success. The lines of
communication are kept open by the manager and they undertake a regular feedback system
which would contribute towards ensuring that they can coach the different members of the
organization easily. However, it is critical that in order to ensure success, training needs to be
given to the different managers so that they can carry out the work easily (Schaerer et al. 2018).
The different advantages of the hands on management are as follows:
 It will give Bison an access to gaining more ideas from the different consumers as well as
the other employees. If the manager conducts the work from an open mind they can
easily work better.