Carrington Laboratories Incorporated Isues

      Group Members

                NAME                             ID

                                                  RAISA DHALI                                                     143200055

                                     SOFIAN AL MAHMOOD KHAN                                    141200068

                                             Afran Jum Shikha                                                  143200099

Problems From The Study

1. Has the Patterson operation been successful? To the degree that it can be judged a success, what factors have contributed to it?

2. Identify the leadership styles of Fred Hammond and May Allison. Apply several of the leadership models to the case, such as Fiedler’s contingency model and the Hersey-Blanchard situational model.

3. Comment on the informal organization at Patterson. In what ways did the employees create their own “company”?

4. Review Herzberg’s two factor model. Why didn’t the change in physical working conditions (a deterioration of a hygiene factor) have a negative effect on productivity? What did cause the workers to be productive?

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Has Patterson operation been successful? To the degree that it can be called a success, what factors has contributed to it? 

Yes, It may be concluded that the Patterson Operation has been successful but at the cost of the organization. From the study we have learned the due to low productivity, low employee morale and high unit costs, the section 10 was turned to Patterson operation. But though the building house of Patterson Operation was of old brick structure, dark, poorly ventilated, not air-conditioned, inadequately heated without cafeteria, rest rooms, but it was able to bring out some positive output.

The Patterson Operation succeeded due to following factors  

• New Assembly line  
• Democracy Entertainment  
• Indefinite uniform  
• Unionization.

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Identify the leadership styles of Fred Hammond and May Allison. Apply several of the leadership models to the case, such as Fiedler’s contingency model and the Hersey-Blanchard situational model.

Leadership styles of Fred Hammond and May Allison is Autocratic leadership. Autocratic leadership is the most classical approach when it comes to leadership styles. A manager in a business or company that uses this management style wants to have all power over decisions and as much influence as possible. They don’t ask any other employees for their opinions or ideas and they expect the human resources to follow set rules and instructions with no questions asked. Autocratic leaders believe that their employee’s motivation is a subject of a strict reward and punishment structure. An example of a famous autocratic leader is Hitler because he is well known for not taking into consideration other peoples wishes or opinions.

There are some advantages of this leadership style, such as decisions being made very quickly which allows all employees to adapt faster than if the decisions took time to happen. Another advantage of this leadership style is that because it is an organized leadership method, it is easier to fulfill goals.

In this leadership style there is very little confusion of who is the manager if an employee needed to talk to them.

People who are for this style say that this method of leadership allows employees to work to the best of their ability without high levels of stress but this could easily be argued against because the manager may make other employees feel fearful and may affect their self-confidence, which would affect their work and performance.