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The Style Approach is basically the way leadership do and how they act toward their employees. In this approach Leaders are though with skills and abilities to basically get results. However, Style Situational Approach focuses on different kinds of situations that may take place and many need to be handle by management being flexible in their leading style when moving from one situations to another and how to adapt to anything that may come up in the workplace.

I believe that in this both style and situational approaches can be used in many ways when dealing with leading a team. For one, the skills and the ability to influence the employees though t non-coercive means. As well as taking and factoring in time, place and circumstances within an organization (Hemphill & Coons, 1957, p.7).

The metaphor when dealing with both Style and Situational Approaches is the supportive, goal-focused, flexible, hands-on, or non-authoritarian. I found that when dealing leader should make sure that the metaphor fits and know the limits for this helps to identify and focus on the key qualities and values of the team.

The advantages and disadvantage of Style and Situational Approach in leadership to me is employees are still not given an opportunity to provide feedback or to suggest alternative methods for doing things.

Also, the leaders do not truly lead they give the authority to an employee who has been hired to the same work as the other employees, creating a problem in the work place. Many time employees feel that not what they get paid for to do the management work. However, the leaders tend to take on too much work for themselves and refuse to delegate it out, making it difficult to finish it in a meanable time.

I can understand assigning employees to help with the work load while the manager attends to other area that need their attention this would stop the stress level of management. But, I found that most of my co-workers who was managers put all the work on the employees. Leaving with nothing but time to roam a round the building or even setting in the office doing nothing. I believe that the best advantage for both approaches is training, easy to understand, helps leadership effectiveness and flexible and dependable when dealing with situations.

For example, working in the Metro State Prison both approach was used however, when using these approaches with inmates who is a ward of the state there is a very different outcome. When I arrive to work taking over a shift the inmates seem to be working well with my co- workers (Managers) in the morning shift but when I and two other managers arrive on the seen they tend to be Abrupt, Violent and Rebilling.

This was so bad that one day rite broke out and we had to lock ourselves in the tool shield. However, to gain control write ups was issued and inmates locked down adding more time for then to remain in there. I fell like the Situational Approach worked best in this type of environment because as leader we had to do the inmates work so we was flexible, and we had to remain level headed, getting thing done under adverse situations.