So we've all seen the office, which is one of the funniest shows on earth in my opinion. It is also one of the best examples of horrible leadership as well! However, there are some pretty apparent leaders that come through because they have to compensate for Michael (the boss's) lack of leadership quality. In this episode the major issue is dealing with office PDA, we will see double standards come out and direct and indirect ways of people dealing with it.
http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/video/pda/1290033/
Pam: Task/Relationship. She is relationship based, she just want's to make sure everything is okay. In the beginning of the show she decides to give Darryl, a fellow employee, a sympathy card because his grandmother died. She has seniority and a voice in the office so by doing this she is opening up lines of communication and establishing an open door for him to come talk to her if he needs someone to talk to which therefore strengthens their bond.
Michael: He is basically the boss. He is mostly path/goal driven. He is an interesting character because he acts like he knows everyone and knows what's going on but he doesn't. He has been assigned the leadership role somehow yet he really only looks out for himself so he will do anything it takes to accomplish his goals. In this episode he disagrees with the "no PDA" guideline and he is upset that this is not what he wants but his overly obvious PDA with his girlfriend bothers everyone. So he tries to accomplish his goal in this episode by making his unhappiness extremely obvious in order to accomplish his goal to bring PDA back to the office.
Darryl: is in the LMX acquaintance stage of leadership. He is trying to be nice and maintain the peace within the office but he is also concentrated on getting his work done. He has moderate relationships with everyone else but it isn't anything to close because he is concentrated more on getting his work done so he can go home because he seems irritated with everyone in the office all of the time.
The Office is a great example of different characters showing different methods of leadership. To add to this there is Dwight, who I think is task-oriented. He is all about getting the job done no matter what it takes. Sometimes he might even go so far as to insult or hurt others to prove his point. I haven't seen the PDA one yet, but I'm sure Dwight is doing something here which definitely shows his task-oriented style of leadership.
ReplyDeleteI love that you chose The Office because I love that show too!! I think I'll go watch the PDA one now. :)