Egocentric Leader's Role In The Current Department Head

Due to the lack of enthusiasm for the job the current Department Head has built a department where there is little trust and little work to excel. The current Department Head is an egocentric leader and believes he is the only one who is able to communicate with the chain of command or attend meetings on behalf of the department (Guttman, 2012). Filling two different, but very important roles, makes it difficult for him to be able to fulfill all the needs of the commands for all roles without delegating. Within the current organization quite a few of the civilians no longer understand the roles they play or what their job function is. These personnel would be classified as passive followers with little drive to improve their situation independently (Daft, 2014). The current Department Head has done little to address these concerns.

The department does not encourage communication between divisions, or even between the department and the echelon four commands. When pressed to make a decision or provide guidance the current Department Head will become quite flustered and annoyed with those questioning him. In the past when the civilian was the Department Head he had an open door policy and was very much an interactive leader (Daft, 2014). The workforce was able to discuss concerns and actively seek out career advice. Our previous leader, unfortunately, was not mission driven, and therefore the mission of the command was quite often missed. However, he was very concerned in the professional development of his personal and took his role as a mentor very seriously. While neither is the perfect leader, they both had qualities that should have worked well together, unfortunately, the previously leaders blasé attitude towards the mission did not give the new Department Head the confidence to delegate to current