Coach Knight: The Will to Win

Question # 1 Describe coach knights leadership style was he effective or not, why?

PART-A
Coach Knight was having autocratic leadership style and he seems to be task oriented. Following are the characteristics of his leadership style. Disciplinarian Obedience oriented High demanding Perfectionist Treating players as reboots Negative reinforcement Communication by using foul language Tight supervision (Theory X) Use of power

PART-B
Coach Knight is effective if we talk in term of team performance because IU basketball team was winning in Knights reign and after joining Texas Tech team, which was not performing well, was converted into winning team by Coach Knight. If we talk about players, they were dissatisfied by Knights method of coaching. In universities sports are considered as secondary thing, but coach knight implementing his policies which might cause dissatisfaction for students.

Question # 2
What solution/alternatives you suggest for problem(s) in the case.

Problem
Authoritarian policies of coach Knight

Alternatives
Firing coach knight from job. Request for changing policies. University should focus on implementation of proper policies. Hiring friendly coach. Removing basketball team from university.

Best Alternative
University should hire friendly coach.

Rationale
Coach Knight is highly perfectionist and he does not want to lose matches and he is so much demanding that it affects the social life of students, it makes difficult for students to concentrate both on sports and studies. Coach Knight is also reason for bad image of university which is created by different controversies.