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Teresa Earnhardt led her late husband Dale Earnhardt's company after his death. She used a contingency leadership style depending on the situation. While she could be autocratic at times due to her quiet demeanor, she showed strong determination and characteristics to make the organization successful. It can be difficult for a leader to change their preferred style due to feeling most effective with that style. Leadership training can help discover new styles and traits. Replacing a well-known leader like Dale poses challenges like employees looking down on a new female leader in the male-dominated stock car racing business. Teresa adapted positively to change and continued working behind the scenes using her skills and strengths.

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Teresa Earnhardt led her late husband Dale Earnhardt's company after his death. She used a contingency leadership style depending on the situation. While she could be autocratic at times due to her quiet demeanor, she showed strong determination and characteristics to make the organization successful. It can be difficult for a leader to change their preferred style due to feeling most effective with that style. Leadership training can help discover new styles and traits. Replacing a well-known leader like Dale poses challenges like employees looking down on a new female leader in the male-dominated stock car racing business. Teresa adapted positively to change and continued working behind the scenes using her skills and strengths.

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CASE STUDY

Management II
(MWF 4:00-5:25)

Submitted By:
Mary Grace W. Bumilay
BSBA 1

Ms. Julie Palaganas


Professor
1. Describe Teresa Earnhardt’s leadership style. What do you think the advantages
and drawbacks of her style?

- Teresa Earnhardt leadership depends on the situation. She was more


effective leader depends on the situation of the organization. These traits are
belonging to the Contingency theory. She uses her quite demeanor and
strong determination and characteristics to make her organization more
successful (trait and behavior theory). Some instances that she has been an
autocratic leader because she has the attitude that she’s not comfortable with
having engaged in small talks wherein she doesn’t need the suggestions of
others like her late husband Dale who died on an accident. Dale was an
adamant, spontaneous and headstrong leader.

- The advantages on this leadership style are that the company may achieve its
goals in a shorter period of time or time constrains and resource constrains.
The drawback on this is that her employees and subordinates may tend to
reveal against her because of her leadership style.

2. Do you think it’s easy for a leader to change his or her preferred style? Explain.
What are the implications for leadership training?

- It’s difficult to adapt on change for a leadership style because as a leader, you
think that you are more effective if you prefer the said style. It is your trait or
way to be a leader to achieve a goal for the benefit of the organization. It is
yourself to know what is the best you to be a leader.

- Your leadership style may more enhance. In training, you will be able to
discover or you will know about or something that you think it is the right thing
to do as a leader. Your characteristics and traits may change because you
realize something about your leading style. In that way, its easy for a leader to
adapt change on the style of leadership.

3. What challenges does a leader who’s replacing a well known leader of any
organization face? How did Teresa Earnhardt deal with these challenges?

- The challenge for her is that gender may affect her as a leader. There are
beliefs that men have the power to be a leader than women. So, as a women
leader, she may think that her employees and also her co- executives may
look down on her because of just a woman. One challenge on her also was
how to adapt on change and how to be the same on with her late husband
Dale Earnhardt on managing his company that made it as a well-known
company.

- In all challenges that he faced, replacing a well-known leader (Dale


Earnhardt), she tried to adapt on change. A positive change that could benefit
on her and also to the organization. She showed what is in her, the strong
determination and characteristics. She continued working and negotiating to
other business, used her skills and strengths as a leader on the company. But
she continued working behind the scenes.

4. How might the fact that a stock car racing is a male- dominated business affect
Teresa Earnhardt’s approach to leading her company?
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