Motivation

This case study analysis consists of how various problems cropped up between two departments Butchers; who took care of the packaging and Luggers; who manually transported the goods to the warehouse, at Food Merchandising Corporation. The situation arose at their Northern New Jersey warehouse which, stocked goods and distributed many items to various stores. Beef was the costliest at the warehouse. The issues that resulted were because of ineffective leadership and work design elements. Ineffective leadership results from poor interpersonal relationships, deficiency in employee communications, low motivation, conflict management, stress management, inequity, process discrimination, lack of managerial functioning, culture issues of the organization, decreased autonomy and empowerment, lack of performance evaluation criteria.

Ineffective Leadership

Abrams as a leader has been ineffective when he is very stringent with the butchers but very lenient with the luggers by ignoring the issue of extra income generation or certain policies not put by the management. Ilies, Judge, and Wagner (2006) have recognized the function of leaders in a company, such as that of preserving fairness and accord among the various departments and people and Abrams was very laidback in his attitude and did not perform necessary leadership and managerial role. Van Seters and Field (1990) criticises the inert style of leading employees and its futility.

Antonakis, Avolio, & Sivasubramaniam (2003) describes’ leadership to consist of all management functions, and this in turn helps to develop a high performance company. Yukl (2006) states that conduct of a leader are mainly learned, and activity-related, people-oriented, and are about contribution. Identifying ineffective leadership factors can be a method by which all the failures would indicate what effective leader should not do. Hogan and Kaiser (2005) definition of leadership is the capability to construct and sustain a group...