Question Leadership Mettle Forged in Battle In 2008, facing a serious shortage of leadership-ready employees at the store management level, Walmart decided to recruit from the U.S. military. The company sent recruiters to military job fairs and hired 150 junior military officers, pairing them with store mentors to learn on the job. The result: Walmart claims that it's been able to bring in world-class leaders who were ready to take over once they had learned the retail business that Walmart could easily teach them. Other organizations that have heavily recruited from the military in recent years include GE, Home Depot, Lowe's, State Farm Insurance, Merck, and Bank of America. It's not really surprising to see companies turn to the military for leadership potential. A long tradition of books and seminars advises leaders to think like military leaders, ranging from Sun Tzu to Norman Schwarzkopf. And military veterans do have a variety of valuable skills learned through experience. 2 Pag General David Petraeus notes, “Tell me anywhere in the business world where a 22- or 23-year-old is responsible for 35 or 40 other individuals on missions that involve life and death .... They're under enormous scrutiny, on top of everything else. These are pretty formative experiences. It's a bit of a crucible-like experience that they go through.” Military leaders are also accustomed to having to make do in less than optimal conditions, negotiate across cultures, be highly accountable, and operate under extreme stress. However, veterans do have to relearn some lessons from the service. Some may not be used to leading someone like an eccentric computer programmer who works strange hours and dresses like a slob, but brings more to the company's bottom line than a conventional employee. Indeed, in some companies, such as Google, there is nothing like the chain of command military leaders are used to. Still, there is an ample supply of battle-tested military leaders ready to report for corporate duty, and many companies are eager to have them. Case Questions: (a) Each question is worth the points shown at the end of the question. (b) Answers should be minimum 250 words counts for each question - but not more than 350 words counts. (c) Please note that there will be plagiarism test on your answers. 1. Do you think leaders in military contexts exhibit the same qualities as organizational leaders? Why or why not? (35 points) 2. In what ways not mentioned in the case would military leadership lessons not apply in the private sector? What might military leaders have to relearn to work in business? (35 points) 3. Are specific types of work or situations more likely to benefit from the presence of "battle- tested" leaders? List a few examples. (30 points) 4 Pag
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Transcribed Image Text: Leadership Mettle Forged in Battle In 2008, facing a serious shortage of leadership-ready employees at the store management level, Walmart decided to recruit from the U.S. military. The company sent recruiters to military job fairs and hired 150 junior military officers, pairing them with store mentors to learn on the job. The result: Walmart claims that it's been able to bring in world-class leaders who were ready to take over once they had learned the retail business that Walmart could easily teach them. Other organizations that have heavily recruited from the military in recent years include GE, Home Depot, Lowe's, State Farm Insurance, Merck, and Bank of America. It's not really surprising to see companies turn to the military for leadership potential. A long tradition of books and seminars advises leaders to think like military leaders, ranging from Sun Tzu to Norman Schwarzkopf. And military veterans do have a variety of valuable skills learned through experience. 2 Pag General David Petraeus notes, “Tell me anywhere in the business world where a 22- or 23-year-old is responsible for 35 or 40 other individuals on missions that involve life and death .... They're under enormous scrutiny, on top of everything else. These are pretty formative experiences. It's a bit of a crucible-like experience that they go through.” Military leaders are also accustomed to having to make do in less than optimal conditions, negotiate across cultures, be highly accountable, and operate under extreme stress.
However, veterans do have to relearn some lessons from the service. Some may not be used to leading someone like an eccentric computer programmer who works strange hours and dresses like a slob, but brings more to the company's bottom line than a conventional employee. Indeed, in some companies, such as Google, there is nothing like the chain of command military leaders are used to. Still, there is an ample supply of battle-tested military leaders ready to report for corporate duty, and many companies are eager to have them. Case Questions: (a) Each question is worth the points shown at the end of the question. (b) Answers should be minimum 250 words counts for each question - but not more than 350 words counts. (c) Please note that there will be plagiarism test on your answers. 1. Do you think leaders in military contexts exhibit the same qualities as organizational leaders? Why or why not? (35 points) 2. In what ways not mentioned in the case would military leadership lessons not apply in the private sector? What might military leaders have to relearn to work in business? (35 points) 3. Are specific types of work or situations more likely to benefit from the presence of "battle- tested" leaders? List a few examples. (30 points) 4 Pag
More Transcribed Image Text: Leadership Mettle Forged in Battle In 2008, facing a serious shortage of leadership-ready employees at the store management level, Walmart decided to recruit from the U.S. military. The company sent recruiters to military job fairs and hired 150 junior military officers, pairing them with store mentors to learn on the job. The result: Walmart claims that it's been able to bring in world-class leaders who were ready to take over once they had learned the retail business that Walmart could easily teach them. Other organizations that have heavily recruited from the military in recent years include GE, Home Depot, Lowe's, State Farm Insurance, Merck, and Bank of America. It's not really surprising to see companies turn to the military for leadership potential. A long tradition of books and seminars advises leaders to think like military leaders, ranging from Sun Tzu to Norman Schwarzkopf. And military veterans do have a variety of valuable skills learned through experience. 2 Pag General David Petraeus notes, “Tell me anywhere in the business world where a 22- or 23-year-old is responsible for 35 or 40 other individuals on missions that involve life and death .... They're under enormous scrutiny, on top of everything else. These are pretty formative experiences. It's a bit of a crucible-like experience that they go through.” Military leaders are also accustomed to having to make do in less than optimal conditions, negotiate across cultures, be highly accountable, and operate under extreme stress.
However, veterans do have to relearn some lessons from the service. Some may not be used to leading someone like an eccentric computer programmer who works strange hours and dresses like a slob, but brings more to the company's bottom line than a conventional employee. Indeed, in some companies, such as Google, there is nothing like the chain of command military leaders are used to. Still, there is an ample supply of battle-tested military leaders ready to report for corporate duty, and many companies are eager to have them. Case Questions: (a) Each question is worth the points shown at the end of the question. (b) Answers should be minimum 250 words counts for each question - but not more than 350 words counts. (c) Please note that there will be plagiarism test on your answers. 1. Do you think leaders in military contexts exhibit the same qualities as organizational leaders? Why or why not? (35 points) 2. In what ways not mentioned in the case would military leadership lessons not apply in the private sector? What might military leaders have to relearn to work in business? (35 points) 3. Are specific types of work or situations more likely to benefit from the presence of "battle- tested" leaders? List a few examples. (30 points) 4 Pag
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ANSWER 1) (a) Leaders in the military and leaders within business oriented organizations exhibit the same traits and qualities because leaders regardless of the situation or context share the same traits. Decisions concerning logistics, planning, and operations are important both in the military and private sector. (b).In fact, I think they exhibit the best qualities to be an organizational leader. They have been broken down and rebuilt to be able to take orders and deliver an exceptional performance. They have the ability to handle stressful situations and stay focused on the task that is at hand, which can help lead businesses to be successful. (c) .When focusing on deadlines and important projects they would be able to assign tasks to individual employees, and being able to give specific instructions, they would be able to get things done quickly. (d).Military leaders are well trained and possess various leadership qualities and are trained to work under extreme pressure, stress, handle multiple tasks, maintain punctuality, act responsibly and stand courageously. They are trained to handle complex situations mostly related to battlefield, missions that involve life and death, act very intelligently and solve the situations. (e). Although the experience in which the military leaders worked may, to some extent helpful in managing organizations similar to organizational leaders. But the chance of becoming successful depends upon how they use and apply the skills they acquired through in organization context. ( f) Since the experience is completely in a different field they may not completely possess the same qualities as organizational leaders. Organizational leaders possess different skills set that consists of tactical negotiating, bargaining, getting things done by others and a lot mo ... See the full answer