What are the differences in Leadership at Green River and FMC Aberdeen?
Green River's leadership is hierarchical and referred to autocratic/authoritarian style with the control (all decision made at the top) coming from the top management, often employing authoritarian leadership style versus participatory model (like Aberdeen), with particpatory/transformative leadership style. The former is hierarchical, whereas the latter is a more flattened structure, employing the team approach, where decisions have input from all team players - through the use of groups and teamwork.
Green River: AUTOCRATIC/AUTHORITARIAN MANAGEMENT STYLE
The premise of the autocratic management style is the belief that in most cases the worker cannot make a contribution to their own work, and that even if they could, they wouldn't. McGregor called the belief system that leads to this mindset Theory X (autocratic, like Green River). Under this Theory, workers have no interest in work in general, including the quality of their work. It argues that because civilization has mitigated the challenges of nature, modern man has become lazy and soft. The job of mangers is to deal with this by using "carrots and sticks." The "carrot" is usually a monetary incentive, such as piece-rate pay schemes. The "stick" is docked pay for poor quality or missed production targets. Only money and threats can motivate the lazy, disinterested worker.
Theory X's (like Green River) natural management style (with the above beliefs) would favor the autocratic management style. Autocratic managers attempt to control work to the maximum extent possible. A major threat to control is complexity; complex jobs are more difficult to learn and workers who master such jobs are scarce and possess a cert ...