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Give detailed answers to the following 3 questions, answers can be found in the case study, to see the case copy the link below and paste it into your link bar. There is no page limit.

1.What is it like to work in this environment? How do you respond to Julie as a leader? Compare Julie as a leader with some of the descriptions of leadership styles.

2.What organizational, team, and individual problems can you identify? What opportunities for organization development work do you see?

3.How do the opportunities you have identified illustrate the values and ethical beliefs of organization development work do you see?

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In reading the case study of Northern County Legal Services, it becomes quickly apparent that the office is in chaos. The employees working in the office are extremely unorganized, void of direction, and generally frustrated. The working conditions are poor. The offices are cramped with old equipment that is being utilized by too many people which leads to inefficiencies. Overall this would not be a pleasant place to work as it currently is functioning.

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1. What is it like to work in this environment? How do you respond to Julie as a leader? Compare Julie as a leader with some of the descriptions of leadership styles.

In reading the case study of Northern County Legal Services, it becomes quickly apparent that the office is in chaos. The employees working in the office are extremely unorganized, void of direction, and generally frustrated. The working conditions are poor. The offices are cramped with old equipment that is being utilized by too many people which leads to inefficiencies. Overall this would not be a pleasant place to work as it currently is functioning.

In putting myself in the position of an employee working for Julie, I would not appreciate her leadership style. Her lack of management skills and lack of direction would be very difficult to work under on a daily basis. Just like the employees in the case study sitting in Julie's monthly ...

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