video and question
Watch the video documentary “The Education of Michelle Rhee” and answer the following questions:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
1- What leadership style did Michelle Rhee use most frequently as Chancellor of the DC School System? (1/2 – 1 page)
2- Do you believe it was an appropriate style to use in that role and that situation? Explain your answers and justify them with specific examples from the documentary. (1 page or less)
3- What other leadership style could Rhee have used that would have been more effective in the situation that she was leading? (1/2 – 1 page)
4- Explain why you believe this leadership style would have been more effective, using specific examples from the documentary. Take any one action or decision that Rhee made as Chancellor, and explain how she could have implemented your suggested leadership style. ( 1 page)
(please relay only to the video and article in attach no outside reference)
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Michelle Rhee: Leadership in DC Education
Question 1
Leadership has always played a critical role on the subordinates within a particular society, in which case they will always act according to the guidance provided by the leadership therein. Consequently, in as much as a leader takes on a particular leadership style based on the environment in which he or she operates, the objectives in place for the organization must always determine the most appropriate approach to guiding the followers to such success. In her effort to reform the DC Schools, Michelle Rhee took on an authoritative approach in which case she determined the achievement she wished to experience, and gave the employees the necessary autonomy to achieve such success. Although she did not explicitly direct the school principals to engage in certain activities to achieve the desired success,
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