Seton Academy uses the collective style of decision-making. The owner and founder of the academy is the leader and maintain total control at all time. There is nothing that can happen with out the approval of her. However, she may have full leader control she does base her decisions on the collaboration of the board. The board consists of all her children, their spouses and her grandchildren. The board has a monthly meeting to discuss new ideas; during this time board members can ask to start new ideas. If Mrs. Hayes agrees upon this idea then the board members will all vote to see if it will be implemented.
The collective decision- making style works for Seton Academy because it is a family run business. Mrs. Hayes wants to allow her family to help make her decided what is best and also to teach them how to ruin the business. When she passes it will be her children that continue her business. Additional, it helps for a company to have different ideas coming in from different peoples perspectives. One person might think their idea is great but some one else can have good reasons why it is not. However, it may work well for Seton Academy, it probably will not work well in larger businesses due to globalization. The bigger the company it can be easier to use different decision- making styles.
An example of the board using collective decision- making, would be when Mrs. Hayes and the board had a meeting to decide whether or not Seton Academy was still going to use bus for the summer field trip program. First, they had to decide whether or not the bus on site were fit to drive since they had a few problems last year. And how high the summer enrollment was due to the fact that there was only one bus. They also had to take in the factor of the money it would cost to fuel the bus. Since gas prices have been soaring out of control, would it be possible to afford the trips. After that they board had to consider would eliminating the field trips take away from...