Coach Bill Yoast has demonstrated the functions of management in the following manner.
Controlling
Under the leadership of Boone as the head coach, Yoast exhibits a sense of control, as he initially tries to get into the position of giving directives to the play and keep a right eye on the situation at hand as assistant coach. Though, this didn’t last for long as Boone immediately asserted his power and made it clear that he is the head coach.
Planning
Coach Bill Yoast has been in the frontline in defining the Titans’ mission of getting into the Hall of Fame. That is, outlining and working towards the process geared towards achieving these goals. Coach Yoast. He has kept eyes to achieve this mission having taught players like Gary Bertier for about ten years. He made timely arrangements for the team’s camps in order to adequately prepare the players for the competitions.
Organizing
The black residents are seen gathered at Coach Boone’s family lawn in order to congratulate him as the new head coach. Yoast swallows his pride and undertakes the organizing function of the team; making decisions and issuing orders on his white team players and convince them to play for the new black coach in order for them to preserve their scholarship opportunities in the athletics for college.
Leading
Bill Yoast portrayed an attitude of leadership when he accepted the position of assistant coach under Boone in order to give him an opportunity to lead and support his players despite having been offered ten head coach positions from various high schools in the northern Virginia. This is an aspect of offering self-driven leadership role rather than going for a position with less personal conviction. Yoast became Coach Boone’s conscious, and he continuously alerted him never to push the players too far. Any slight opportunity that Yoast had with his team he gave his personal goal of driving the team to Hall of Fame (Giardina, 2013). This aspect of leadership from Yoast comes out in a natural manner as he does everything for the team without seeking glory or gratitude. He shows commitment to service, as he is able to complement head Coach Boone for his good job at the end of the summer camp despite having part of the Boone’s success.
Diversity challenges that Coach Boone faced as head coach
Coach Boone being a black, he had to overcome the white supremacy and dominance within the northern in a top position of being the head coach of Titans. The challenge of race is seen just immediately when Boone takes office as head coach and asks Yoast to be the assistant head coach. Yoast responds to him with some level of sarcasm saying, “Working under you.” There are divisive points of view even in the midst of the players on the capability and capacity of the team players of the other race. The whites, for example, Bertier perceived their counterpart blacks as inferior individual to an extent of Bertier telling Julius that he is nothing. Boone as the new head coach had to ensure that he inculcates brother-hood and as sense of appreciating who everyone is and what he is capable of. Boone tackles this diversity challenge by taking the player to Gettysburg to run at three in the morning and tells them to come together least they too get destroyed. The team comes together after jog, sing, joke, dance, have fun and even mix at lunch table. He further forced each player to learn the “particulars” about the other player of different race and even split up the team members, white with black and made them share rooms and bus ride (Yoast, & Sullivan, 2011). Moreover, near the end of the movie, there is a huge symbolic gesture of change inspired by the team as Bertier’s girlfriend shakes Julius’ hand after she has been seen throughout the movie breaking up with Bertier as a result of
Decision-Making Process
Step 1: Identification of the decision to be made
Boone has to make a decision on whether to kick Ray off the team to Gerry or not.
Step 2: Gather the relevant information
Boone has pursued a front of unifying the team members and no point he would towards making a decision that would disunite the team, as racism becomes a turn-point within the team members. Ray being a black and Gerry being a white could have a point to cause rifles as any side which Boone could have leaned on was questionable with suspicion and malice.
Step 3: Compare and contrast the available alternatives and their consequences
Apart from not taking the decision to kick Ray off to Gerry, Boone has decided to kick Ray, but this could have resulted in pressure form the black folks as they could have felt some level of betrayal from a leadership of their own.
Step 4: Choose an alternative
I would also choose the alternative not to kick Ray off the team to Gerry.
Step 5: Design and implement an action plan
The team members would continue to coordinate in a group of blacks and whites in everything they undertake to hasten their racial interrelation. This would be implemented by giving a task for two (a black and a white player) and rating them with other groups of a similar combination.
Step 6: Evaluate the results
An action which is not linked to any form of racial consideration like the one taken by Boone would build close relations among the team members without any form of ill feeling as a result of leaning on a particular race.
Leadership Qualities of the Coaches
Coach Moone
Moone is anti-racist. He works out his team of players to be groups of a black and white in order for each to learn each other’s “Particulars.” He shows commitment and hard work as he gets out his team players at three in the morning to exercise.
Coach Bill Yoast
Yoast shows servant leadership as he rejects the ten other offers of being the head coach of other high school but finally settles for the position of an assistant coach of the Titans under Moone in order to support his players (Yoast, & Sullivan, 2011). He is assertive in his actions and would want to be the driving force of the team despite having a head coach. That is, he takes the control of the team before Moone could realize and picks his right place as head coach.
References
Giardina, M. D. (2013). Sporting pedagogies: Performing culture & identity in the global arena. New York: Lang.
Yoast, B. R., & Sullivan, S. (2011). Remember this Titan: The Bill Yoast story: lessons learned from a celebrated coach's journey. Lanham: Taylor Trade Publishing.
