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Who Is The Grocery Manager At Sobeys?

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I recently interviewed Mr. Dereck Sawh, who is the Grocery Manager at Sobeys. To sum up the interview, he defined leadership as being able to empower your employees/ followers. That is, that leadership involves assisting other people to rise to their full potential while still being able to accomplish the organization’s goals. He also pointed up that good leaders should possess honesty and good ethical behaviour. He argues that leaders should always change their leadership style depending on the situation and employee and that leaders who cannot do this, will eventually fail. He talked about his experience with an unproductive employee Matt. Matt was a very hard working employee, but lately he seem to not care about his job at all; twice he had been late for his shift and once he didn’t show up at all, his level of work performance had also dropped tremendously. After the third occurrence Mr. Sawh was told my his store manager that Matt should be fired, but instead Mr. Sawh called matt into his office, where he tried to get to the bottom of this sudden change in behaviour. Matt was having problems at home and had no on he could talk to so Mr. Sawh set aside time to talk with him to make him feel better, he gave Matt the rest of the day off along with a letter of employee expectations. Since then Matt had been himself again and Mr. Sawh checks in with him regularly incase he needs to talk. Mr. Sawh attributes his leadership style to that of a servant leader, however he also

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