Khaled MuQattash April 15, 2002
Organizational Behavior
Case 14
1) Compare Mr. Meyerson's leadership style versus Mr. Perot's based on the
Michigan and Ohio state behavioral theories of leadership. Employee centered
supervisors are those who place strong emphasis on their concerned with getting
the work done. Sometimes, the more general terms human relations oriented and
task oriented are used to describe these alternative leader behaviors.
Consideration and initiating structure are highly considerate leader is sensitive to
people's feelings, and much like the employee centered leader, tries to make
things pleasant for his or her followers. In contrast, a leader high in initiating
structure is more concerned with defining task requirements and other aspects of
the work agenda; he or she might be seen as similar to a production-centered
supervision. Meyerson's concern was emphasis on profit at the expense of people.
He believed that technology, customers, the market, and what people in
organizations wanted from their work had all changed his previous times at EDS.
Meyerson wanted to move Perot Systems toward a corporate model that
recognized that the larger issues in life mattered as much as the demands for profit
and loss. Mayerson's objective was clear. We still tell people we'll give them
everything we can in the way of financial rewards. In fact, the people who run the ...