How do you explain Kenny\'s acceptance by so many other people and the respect they have for him? Can all supervisors operate the way Kenny does and be effective? Explain your answer. Given Kenny\'s effectiveness in his present job, would you recommend promoting him into high levels of management? Explain. Review the characteristics of transformational leadership, adaptive leadership, and servant leadership. Which characteristics apply to Kenny? Solution 1. Kenny\'s acceptance by people is based on the leadership approach taken by him. He listens to the problems of the crews, had a wide knowledge about the work and in actuality he praticed what he preached. He never treated the people infairly and was just with them This helped Kenny in winning the confidence of the people. He was not autocratic and allowed people to work on their own pace. He got result by givin each employee his own space. 2. It is defficult for all the people to operate in the same way as Keeny behaved, as different people have different personality traits, but people can still learn to behave as Kenny behaved and be affective at the work place. 3. Kenny was highly effective in his present role as he completely transformed an underperforming team into a high performing team. The team which he was currently supervising were lowest in terms of production a year ago and after one year, they were the most productive team. Yes, Kenny should be recommended for promotion as in that case Kenny would not be limited in terms of providing leadership skills. Kenny has a proven track record in terms of providing effective leadership and would be an asset at higher levels as it would ive him more responsibilities, wherein he would be able to exercise his leadership skills at broader level. At the same time good leadership skills at the higher level would eventually result in higher production at the lower level as the morale of the people wuld be higher..