My boss came back from leave today after not being at work for a long time. As I interacted with her more, I began to notice how different her interactions were with others. With myself and the other interns, she is always extremely pleasant, always willing to talk with us to help us learn, and also patient with us when we occasionally make mistakes. However, there is an actual FDA employee who has had a tremendously different experience. She is a new employee working under the same boss as I am and doing pretty similar tasks but has had a very different experience with our boss. While my fellow interns and I view our boss as a laid-back leader who cares about our development, she views our boss as a leader who only steps in to reprimand once something has been done wrong. This past week they had a meeting to catch up from lapses in communication and got into a pretty serious argument. Both were telling the other they hadn\u2019t been doing their job and needed to step up.<\/p>\n
It was crazy to me to see such a different side of her, and made me think her leadership style might actually be very transactional. As long as things get done in a timely manner, she seems to be on good terms with the employee. However, in some cases, if someone is behind on their work or consistently making the same mistakes, she can get frustrated with them. I think another factor to take into account is the type of employee. Maybe she\u2019s just being so patient with us because we\u2019re interns and, because the fulltime employee doesn\u2019t seem to be living up to expectations in her eyes, she gets frustrated. I think this would make a lot of sense but at the same time I don\u2019t understand the full situation. It could be that she just doesn\u2019t use the same patience she has with us with the employee or it could be that the employee simply is not living up to expectations. Regardless, I think it\u2019s safe to say that my boss treats us in very different ways, hinting at the concept that people can display different types of leadership styles in different situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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