5. ASSIGNMENT
Major Finding
Task1:
Mr. Hung‟s leadership style is Authoritative leadership. Because Hung‟s NPD team is
under his leadership and he create his vision for future. His leadership might not effective
with a team include people so skilled. This leadership creates so many problems in
management issues and job performance. For example, Mr. Hung exerts absolute control in
guiding new direction for employees and making decision.Mr. Hung does not care about what
employees need, why they disagree with his vision. Authoritative leadership is special and
powerful when in company, employees lack of making-decision, skilled or in situation where
time is necessary, leader need to make decision quickly. However, Mr. Hung is in a
manufacture company, and his staffs are skilled, if he choose Authoritative leadership, he will
reduce sprit of team, reduce the achievement of team, and decline the employees who will
support directly for him.
★ there any other of Goleman‟s (2000) leadership styles that you think might be more
Are
effective? Why?
In this case, with leadership are Mr. Hung and their employees are high skills people,
he use Authoritative leadership style will be made decrease performance of his team. If he
want to be more effective, he might use coaching, democratic and affiliative leadership style.
There is common things in three leadership style that a leader will focus on their subordinates
whereas his current style focuses more on task. That styles builds trusts, emotional,
relationship and special employee‟s ability. The employees can be share their ideas, their
solution to help company and the leader has more community with employees. Then, in long
term and short term, Mr. Hung can be lead the team to reach more result and high
performance.
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6. Hersey and Blanchard (1969)
Hersey and Blanchard create a theory base on the level of leader‟s influence and ability of
employees. This style like a manager tool for Mr. Hung because it pull people closer together,
maintain the confidence of staff in leadership and improve the performance. Mr. Hung are
using Directing style, he tell with his subordinates what to do and how to do it. However this
style are suitable for staffs are new or inexperienced, Mr. Hung‟s employees are skilled, they
will be worked passive by use this style. Perhaps he need to use Delegating style. Because
leaders who will monitor and track progress, Mr. Hung's staff will have more space to
develop the skills that they have and they do job better.
Blake and Mouton (1964)
According Mr. Hung‟s team, if he want to reach a high performance, he need to use
Middle-of-the-road leadership style and Team leadership style.For the first time, with a new
vision, Mr. Hung should keep in balance and average product and relationships. He might use
this style to set for average performance. after achieving stability, "Team Leadership - High
Production / High People" is style Mr. Hungary will set. This period employees understood
team benefit, they will commit to team and have common goal with NPD. This make a good
environment with trust and respect between staffs and Mr. Hung, and the result is high
production.
Transactional and Transformative
Transactional: Giving employees a clear job direction is the way Mr. Hung use
mission and result to control them. However Mr. Hung choose the wrong way to motivation
his employees specially high skill employees (bonus wage). Because with the workers are
highly skilled and experienced, they want to have a work environment freedom, satisfaction
and emotional between top and staffs which are lack in Mr. Hung‟s team.
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7. Transformative:The most obvious change is that he will bring his vision applies to all
groups, personal vision to bring into a group. Mr. Hung confirm his vision will be team‟s
vision, ignore staffs ‟s situation when they disinteresting with his vision.
Task 2:
2.1: Frederick W. Taylor who has known as “Father of Scientific Management”, was
thinking about “the principle of scientific management” when he saw the worker's work lack
of efficiency. His opinion mentioned to 5 main principles: Standardization, Time and task
study, Systematic selection and training, Pay incentives, Cooperation between managers and
operatives. With Mr. Hung‟s company, standardization is very important, it keep the stable
performance and improve the quantity and the quality of product. Time and task study is not
important as Systematic selection and training with DZL because if training good, working
will good. Moreover, Pay incentives and Cooperation between managers and operatives will
Mr. Hung easy to control the task and performance by linking with other manager in
company. Other theory, according to Taylor, Henry Gantt was changed some aspects and put
minimum wage with a standard bonus to suitable with planning and controlling work. Mr.
Hung need to identify and reduce employee stress (by giving them more free time, deadline
extend or even create some company holiday), he must know why increase the salary will
narrow their focus and only work for mechanical job (Pink, 2009). The emotional is more
important, giving them the perspective to do the job by their own will, not because they are
forced to do it. Hung can design the job to fit every team member, which will make them
satisfy more about the job. But the Scientific manager is not consider workers as human, but
as machines that only working and working all the time, that is what make it not very
effective.
2.2: Classical Administration is also one main part in organizational theory which Mr.
Hung will take care to apply to his organization. The most important elements are:
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8. Planning: This work can help the team get the steps explicitly, analyze and
predict possible outcomes
Coordinating: Chunked and glued the team to do part of job to forward a unity
of mission to make the their job become easier and quickly.
Commanding and Control: in production, if there is a two-way communication
between management and staff will help work to achieve the best stability.
And because of management control of the company, top can predict the
surplus or shortage before the number of products, saving and increased
efficiency within the company
Division of Labor : If the works are broken down, it will be easier to
employee to work faster, better and they would not feel it too hard for them,
which motivate people very well
Hierarchy of Authority: By give the worker more power, they will be more
responsible to the job, in order to direct and focus them to the whole team or
organization objective.
However, this management still make the employees become a tool, lack of emotional,
so sometime, the staffs can be stress, and don‟t want to continue the job.
2.3: The last theory which we must find out is Human Relations Theory. This theory
based on Hawthorne studies which conducted by Elton Mayo (1924). It wants to increase
worker performance through provides all resources, condition to please worker. For that
reason, it will provide a knowledge about motivation, group dynamics and so on, Mr. Hung
can assess the capacity of employees, employee trust and employee connect more closely with
managers. Moreover it change our mind about the employee ( they are not a tool, they are an
appreciated resource and they are important with DZL). However, Mr. Hung should consider
before applying this theory because it can be limited if employees have unpredictable
behavior and it take more time to analysis the reality final result.
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9. In case of DZL company, in the design process, Mr. Hung always try to make
motivation for the employees. Moreover people in New Product Design and Development is a
skilled worker so that it is suitable with Human Relations Theory. However, Mr. Hung still
lack of strength to control his employee so that he can coordinate between Classical
Administration and Scientific Management to find out the best ways to control his employee
because they still not follow Hung’s activities. In the manufacturing process, they also have
some similar problems like design department, but they should concentrate on Scientific
Management.
2.4: Unlike traditional management theories, management theories today to focus on
the job flexibility, convenience and improve productivity work. So that an employee is
promoted to a maximum of their individual capabilities, these employees are grouped to
increase productivity and save time. The academic exchange and apply knowledge on the job
is complete freedom. Now work has clearly driven, multi-dimensional and flexible with high
expertise. In addition, the manager also encourages its employees to share ideas, raise the
relationship to colleagues can do a better job
Task3:
3.1. Resistance of changing:
Three-step model (Lewis, 1951) is considered the backbone frame helps Mr. Hung can
be used to change. The first thing to do is to change his employee's mind about old habits, old
cognitive and old style of work. The second step Mr. Hung needs to guide your employees
about the new changes, explain and instruct them, to give them trust and belief in the new
vision. And the final step is to freeze it again, Mr. Hung should ensure its employees will act
in an efficient manner based on the new changes, smoother, more stable and they are not
come back with old habits.
Regarding the case study, Mr. Hung's team are facing two major problems need to be
solved immediately . The first thing is Mr. Hung's team did not accept the new vision which
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10. he imposed on the entire team . They feel stressed and uncomfortable because they hardly
understand the purpose of that vision , they do not see results for them and for company . The
second thing is that they feel a disconnect between management and staff , lack of affection
and they are working like machines . This can be explained by the way Mr. Hung adequate
guidance to staff but they did not try to understand or do not want to do . What the important
is here, the staff has not seen the trust , Mr. Hung just like they did as the machine , which
missed the main feedback from his employees, they feel not respected
3.2. Manager the resistance
Changes to capital is still very difficult in contemporary society. To be able to change,
the most essential factor is still time. Therefore Mr. Hung should have a time frame for
employees to adapt to the new vision. Moreover, during this period, Mr. Hung needs to
improve relationships with employees, communicating with them more comfortable and
absorb ideas from employees to improve the job performance. Besides, Mr. Hung should have
the motivation for promoting the spirit of our employees, reducing resistance.
From the personal views, there is two main techniques for Mr. Hung to manager the
resistance (KOTTER AND SCHLESINGER, 1979)
Education and commitment: In this case, Mr. Hung need to show his vision for
his team, give more clearly information about the change in the future. For
example, he should spend time and money helping his subordinates to
understand the plan. The most important is Mr. Hung must convince staffs
about their value with company, and the benefit will bring for company. In
addition, this technique is the element to increase the employee‟s motivation
because Mr. Hung has shown the benefit of vision, they can be put the trust
into his vision.
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11. Facilitation and support: Change the habits, the style of his work is not easy, it
takes a lot of time and material, can sometimes affect people's feelings.
Therefore, providing emotional and material will help the employees feel
comfortable and have motivation. In outcome 2, management organization, if
Mr. Hung is not wise in the use of management methods (like Classical
Administration and Human Relaytion Theory), his employees can be feel like a
tool, machines, lack of emotional or “Misunderstand and Lack of trust Huczynski and Buchanan, 2007” with him. Then this technique help to solve
this problem. However taking much time, DZL can be stable in long term with
agreeable from the staffs because they feel the emotion, have interest from the
manager.
3.3. Changing’s effect
In DZL Vietnam, so many problem to reach the increase resistance, it is from both the
management and staffs. For example: from the employees views, they are people who has
many years working in DZL company, so they are old-fashioned, backward and conservative,
so they are not accept the new vision easily (Low tolerance to change (Huczynski and
Buchanan, 2007) and Contradictory assessment (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2007)). They will
have some negative response with Mr. Hung. This make high resistance for company. Other
site, from Mr. Hung‟s view, he want to save time, save money training, but he does not
understand changing need the time, and he does not care about the employee‟s felling, care
about their stress. (Misunderstanding and lack of trust (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2007)). If
Mr. Hung cannot improve their relationship, there are a big gap in DZL‟s system, will make
performance of company decline.
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12. 3.4. Leadership style:
Mr. Hung can use some leadership to improve his motivation:
Affiliative
Mr. Hung use this style because it reconcile the emotional connection
leadership
between employees and directors. Besides, it improve and connect
(Goleman, 2000)
people closer together to do the task better. This style enhance human
feeling rather than trying to make them work like a machine. This
style can be used in Change Progress (Lewis, 1951)
This style can be really good for DZL company. Mr. Hung use this
Coaching
leadership(Goleman, style to set a long term object, he should spend more time to analysis
this team‟s weakness in both Change and Refreeze Progress (Lewis,
2000)
1951) to develop people personality. Moreover his subordinates can
be more flexible to do what they do best in job.
Situational
This leadership can be used in Change Process (Lewis, 1951), Mr.
leadership (Hersey
Hung need to analysis the situational to keep employee‟s at high
and Blanchard,
level. However, each of staffs, each of employees, Mr. Hung should
1969)
have different motivation for reducing stress and resistance.
Task4:
Each of motivation theories, each of way to applying for DZL to increase or reduce
performance.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: Manager of DZL can increase high lever in
hierarchy of needs of employees. For example, the company can increase the
wage for staffs, improve employee's life, bonus monetary, promote for
someone who has many years in good performance. If a person does not need
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13. fulfil some components of the hierarchy, company should create a stability,
comfortable environment for them. This motivation take more time to change,
to analysis the cultural or staffs, but it not so expensive
McGregor’s theory:DZL‟s top manager can use this motivation theory Y to
build the relationship and trust with employees. This theory is one of the
modern theory that was applying in many organization. DZL‟s employees will
feel self-motivated, self-control and self-responsibility what they do. This
satisfaction from the staff will create motivation for themselves to reach the
highest vision of DZL.
Herzberg's Two Factor Theory:can call this the most complete model for
DZL, it has similarities with the two models above, but expand and provide
stability. DZL can create motivation by filling employee‟s Hygiene factors,
after that, DZL should open opportunity for promote, etc. Employees will feel
sense of personal achievement, will have promotion to growth position in
company and increase performance.
Vroom’s expectancy theory:evaluates the strength of motivation based on the
individual's perception about probability of earning expected result though by
expectancy, valence and instrumentality. If Mr. Hung want to max
expectancy, he should make staff believe they can achieve the performance
level, he must support work effort, training workers to use the best ability. To
max instrumentality, he might make the employees feel confident in what they
are following by have clear goal setting process (Hoang, 2013). To max
valence, Mr. Hung can identify the staffs need and demonstrate value of
various possible rewards.
Maccoby theory:is the theory mention the social character and personality
(Maccoby, 1998) or the motivation come from the social relationship.
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14. Mr. Hung can apply this for designing the job through match other
value. In various of situation, employees ’s value will be motivating
because they know what people expert on them, help them and they
will be create innovation for themselves and self-develop. Other theory
about social character and personality is Costa & McCrae theory. It
include five factor theory. This particular model was based on a circular
rules, derived from “Openness to Experience” and finish in this point. In
DZL, Mr. Hung should create a learning environment and encourages
its employees to participateenable them to new experiences, new
experiences to apply to the job.
NPD team include people who has high skills and experience, if Mr. Hung want to
increase performance, he need to make good use to of each member ability, and he should
change. Perhaps, he may create bonus for staff of month or year plus monetary bonus. This
make motivation for employees who want to increase their wage and have anindividual titles,
more and more create ideas and do the job better.
Task5:
Motivation is an important element in a job, it boosts morale of staffs and increases
their motivation. In DZL, Mr. Hung are using bonus money system, however it has not all
positive impact on all employees. It only satisfies the needs of employee safety in hierarchy of
needs (Maslow, 1954). Mr. Hung need to do more than it. Regarding candle experiment of
Karl Duncker in 1945, his emphasis on the fixed function. If the job is easy, clear end point
and Mr. Hung put the high lever for bonus, the final result will lower than expectation,
negative impact.
That why Mr. Hung monetary bonus has good impact for someone, not for all. The
bonus money narrow vision, ideas, creativity restrictions, focusing the attention of the staff
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15. into a target too obvious end point. Every will be easy for dummies not for Mr. Hung‟s teams
Who has high skills and experiences. They just focus only money include bonus and wage,
not focus on increasing job performance, creating new ideas.
In a job design, detail in NPD team, the final result based on monetary bonus make
employees perform rather than pushing the high creative and innovation. The staffs just do the
way that they can be achieve the monetary bonus. In other side, the final reward based on
non-monetary (can be promise of an opportunity, work time off, etc.) are the employees work
toward to reach, it is motivating employees behavior. However, in DZL, monetary bonus can
be efficient than non-monetary because all of staffs always want to increase their total
compensation.
Now, Mr. Hung should use monetary bonus system plus a new system is
ROWE(Results Only Work Environment) that was created by both Jody Thompson and Cali
Ressler. This system give employees more opportunities for self-governance, freedom to
work, freedom to choose form working. DZL‟s staffs can easy to do the job, they can be
improve more and more about creating, satisfaction. Mr. Hung can increase commitment of
staffs, reduce employee‟s pressure and intensify work‟s performance. Moreover, a very
important thing that Mr. Hungary needs to do is putting inspired on the staffs. Because they
will do the best job when they like it, want to do it and has motivation to do it.
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