Organizational Behavior

Organizational Behavior

This essay answers the following three questions:

1) Compare Mr. Meyerson’s leadership style versus Mr. Perot’s based on the Michigan and Ohio state behavioral theories of leadership.

2) Utilizing Fiedler’s Contingency Theory of leadership, explain how either Meyerson’s or Perot’s style might be most appropriate based on specific characteristics of the situation at Perot Systems.

3) Evaluate the situation at Perot Systems from the point of view of the discussion on New Leadership.

Employee centered supervisors are those who place strong emphasis on their concerned

with getting the work done. Sometimes, the more general terms human relations oriented

and task oriented are used to describe these alternative leader behaviors.

Consideration and initiating structure are highly considerate leader is sensitive to

people’s feelings, and much like the employee centered leader, tries to make

things pleasant for his or her followers. In contrast, a leader high in initiating

structure is more concerned with defining task requirements and other aspects of

the work agenda; he or she might be seen as similar to a production-centered

supervision. Meyerson’s concern was emphasis on profit at the expense of people.

He believed that technology, customers, the market, and what people in

organizations wanted from their work had all changed his previous times at EDS.

Meyerson wanted to move Perot Systems toward a co...