Splitting Tips or Splitting Hairs

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“Splitting Tips or Splitting Hairs? Should Female Wait Staff Complain?” India Couch Dr. Menon Women in Leadership 05/04/2014 Introduction This paper will assess the needs whether the female waitress should split their tips or not. First and evaluation of Bill Myer’s management style and how he handles the complaint from Lauren and her co-workers will be determined. Next, a description of the workplace culture in the case and speculation about the ways male and female servers are treated will be assessed. Then, determinations will be made of if female bartenders have equal opportunities as male opportunities. Afterwards, there will be a need to assess the steps that could have been taken to resolve the situation if you were Lauren. Lastly, develop a plan to address the issues of fairness and “comparative worth” in the workplace to present to Bill Myers. Evaluate Bill Myers’ management style and his handling of the complaint from Lauren and her co-workers. Bill Myers listened in great detail to the complaints that the staff members shared and then went on to explain to them the reasons for the practices. The staff verbalized some very legitimate complaints which only led to counter rebuttals by Mr. Myers. Mr. Myers explained the reasons for the practices and should have in fact attempted to further investigate the matter and informed the staff that he would see what kind of changes could be made in the future. Bill Myers seems to be an authoritative leader, he provides expectations very clearly on what needs to be done and how. Authoritarian leaders lack in creativity, as the leader makes decisions independently with little or no inputs from employees. The detrimental aspects of this leadership style viewed are being bossy, dictatorial and controlling to the core. This leadership style can be used at its best in situations when there is very little

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