Multicultural Leadership

Leadership Case Key issue The key issue in this case study is the fact that there are some complaints from employees and customers on how the store manager at Mighty Muffler Brake service center Louie relates to them. There are some complains about Louise that are surfacing about his inappropriate comments and actions against other employees and customers. The root causes The root cause of this issue is the fact that Louie has a problem in managing cultural diversity among the employees and customers.

For this reason he at times becomes quite patronizing to the customers and employees without even realizing it. Possible Solutions one possible solution to this issue would be making sure that Louie is able to manage cultural diversity as presented in the organization through the employees and customers. This can be achieved through talking to him and letting him know the importance of accepting cultural diversity in any organization.

Another solution is taking Louise through programs that will enable him to relate well with the customers and employees since dealing with them is the main problem here. Advantages & Disadvantages These solutions have advantages and disadvantages one of the advantages is that this will lead to Louise accepting cultural diversity and hence he will relate better with employees and customers. This will lead to employees and customers being comfortable whenever they are interacting with Louie and hence better results for the organization.

One disadvantage of the solutions are that Louie would be uncomfortable with the suggestions made and feel as though he is being put on the spot. This can lead to him feeling upset and hence easily move and join the competitor of the organization in an attempt to look for employers who would not put him on the spot. Final Recommendations My final recommendation is that something needs to be done about Louie's towards him being multicultural in his approaches to issues and people.

This is because he makes a big contribution to the firm and hence he is important in the organization. Therefore making him more multicultural will mean that the employees and customers will be comfortable with him and the organization will continue to benefit from his input into the organization.

Questions from the book Question 1 Louie has a problem since it is not only one person who is complaining but there are several complains from different people about him .if it was one person we could give some room and say that maybe the particular individual is being too sensitive but since the complains are from different people it means that Louie really has a problem that many people have noted and hence it has top be addressed.

Question 2 For Louie to become a multicultural manager he should become open minded when it comes to peoples diversity. He should accept people as they come regardless of their culture. He should be ready to learn aspects of people's culture which will enable him to know how best to deal with people from.