Leadership Concepts Case Study

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PAS 450 April21, 2012 Wilson Sporting Goods Case Midterm Case Analysis When Al Scott took over as manager of the Wilson Sporting Goods’ Humbold, Tennessee he met with a culture of inefficiency and poor leadership. Poor leadership had left the employees with no clear vision of company goals and priorities that created tensions internally between management and staff. Mr. Scott took the role of the transformational leader to institute change that would improve morale and employee relations by embracing a clear vision and goal the staff could understand and embrace. The staff was made a part of the problem solving process, which greatly increased morale as well as the pools of knowledge that were being drawn from to solve problems. Al Scott achieved success by adopting principals of leadership that led him to develop plans that made everyone feel like a part of the company with a vested interest in improving their status in the industry. Mr. Scott created a vision, got buy-in from the company for that vision, led by example in instituting a change in the leadership, and created an environment that empowered the staff to meet the company’s vision. Changes in leadership were the catalyst for positive change within the company at Wilson Sporting Goods. The problems that the Humboldt facility experienced were all caused by internal systems that were counterintuitive to success. The “us against them” mentality of the bureaucratic structure fostered employee resentment that ruined the core of the company. The employees were working for a paycheck, not for a purpose. The company lacked a clear vision for what was expected of the people that worked there. They also lacked a leadership structure that empowered the work force to feel like they were contributing to the success (or failure) of the organization. If leaders are meant to lead by example we can make some

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