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Week 3 Case Study 3

Week 3 Case Study

Q Read case study 11.1 Silence, Stigma, and Mental Illness from Northouse (2016) p. 279-281 and respond to the following questions: How do you define the problems the editors were trying to address? Was this a technical or an adaptive challenge? What is your reaction to what the principal did in this situation? How do you think what she did fits in with providing direction, protection orientation, conflict management, and productive norms? Describe the holding environment in this case. Was the holding environment sufficient to meet the adaptive challenge in this situation? How would you improve it? Which of the leader behaviors (get on the balcony, identify adaptive challenges, regulate distress, etc.) did the leaders exhibit? Reference: Northouse (2016) Leadership theory and practice (7th ed) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage publications.

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The problem that the two editors Madeline Halpert and Eva Rosenfeld was having can be termed as the adaptive challenge for they had a problem in front of them with which they had a deep connection but the problem itself was not clear and the outcome and solution were vague. In such a case it is clearly an adaptive challenge where the two editors could not figure out the solution to the problem which they both were going through.