THE SADDLE CREEK DELI LEADERSHIP

The Saddle Creek Deli Leadership

The Saddle Creek Deli Leadership

Introduction

Richard Daft describes leadership in the case the saddle creek deli as a democratic leader, who delegates authority to others, encourages participation, relies on subordinates knowledge for completion of tasks, and depends on subordinate respect for influence (Daft, 103). The form of leadership the company would use could be considered up-side down management. He once said, The way I put it is the way it will work if we manage from the bottom up and not from the top down. That kind of arrangement would make people managers own their own account, and not just order-takers from the people above. He gave his managers the flexibility to make decisions and run the business as they saw fit. He did not rule with an iron fist or micro-manage their decisions.

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