Leadership and communication CASE STUDY
Title: Inside an Organization: Perspectives on Employee Communications
Author: LeMenager, J.
Publisher: Fells Publishing
Edition/Year: 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1460940693
Look at Chapters 1, 2, 3, and
LeManager: Section III (pp. 78-118)
Hirokawa, R. (1990). The Role of Communication in Group Decision-Making Efficacy: A Task-Contingency Perspective. Small Group Research, 21(2), 190-204.
Harvard Business Review coursepack case study: “Turn the Ship Around!”
case Analysis #1
This week, you will read the Harvard Business Review coursepack case study “Turn the Ship Around!” and complete a 4 page case analysis paper. To complete this paper, you will have completed your weeks 1-3 readings and use them to answer the following questions:
You have been hired as an organizational consultant for the U.S. Navy to help David determine what is going wrong on the USS Will Rogers.Using your course readings thus far and detailed examples from the case (including your explanation and interpretation of the examples you pull), craft an argument as to what went wrong for David on the USS Will Rogers.
What lessons about leadership and organizational identification can you apply to your own job from this case? Again, use your course readings thus far and detailed examples from the case to explain what you have learned and why it is useful for your job/career.
Finally, imagine you are an organizational communication consultant who subscribes to a classical approach to organizational communication. What is this approach? What would be a classical theorist’s critique of David’s desired leadership style? How does this approach differ from David’s desired leadership style?
