Essays 211 - 240
(Team Technology, 2010). This premise would hold true in either sector. One example is the leadership of teams; when the team is j...
can be expressed as ones ability to pay attention to how ones rational decisions relate to ones values, as well as ones ability to...
Understanding the motivational contingencies of team leadership. Small Group Research, 41(5), 621-651. This is an important arti...
an interesting text on leadership in that it attempts to achieve a synthesis of classical leadership ideals with modern contempora...
will evolve in order to help with assessment and development of leadership skills. 1.1 Problem Statement The problem with leade...
reflect not the leadership skills themselves, but the way that the leader chooses to use them. In the commercial environment lea...
Discusses various leadership styles, and determines if there is a "right" style of leadership. There are 6 sources listed in the b...
Childs (1972) it is the leader, in the form of the CEO that is responsible for making the strategic choices within an organization...
It was following this decision and an approach by IBM that the firm acquired IBMs PC division for $1,74 billion (Schuman, 2010)....
the principles of good business. Success in business depends largely upon the ability to quickly and efficiently adapt to these ch...
personal values, personality, and on other beliefs. A leaders philosophy of leadership will be observed in his leadership style an...
to be so remote as to be unapproachable (Manchester 5). He is described as wrapping "himself in a cloak of dignified aloofness" (M...
et al, 2004). As the authors point out, an essential component of transformational leadership is to acknowledge and consider diff...
social work, one can find many people idealistically devoted to causes that are important to them. It is not an easy path to becom...
organization when the leadership is shared between every member of the organization, with each member having responsibility and ac...
2009). Contingency styles consider the relationship between the leader and follower, the specific task, and power (Doyle & Smith, ...
more affordable, and in todays world, integrating computers into ones business architecture is a matter of necessity rather than p...
sort of person who can truly identify with the values the organization wishes to promote, and so on (Brown & Mitchell, 2010). Th...
become outdated by the time the text reached print, but on the basis of principles that, according to the author, are "universal a...
leadership and attempt to present a more nuanced approach to the skills or qualities associated with leaders in the personal sense...
and its basic conceit, around which the paper will be based. The primary theme of Goodwins work is that the presidency of Abraham ...
is based primarily upon Christian morals and values, due to Sanders belief that this particular set of values is well suited to de...
of the department and the achievement of goals by motivating staff through the offer of rewards (Sellgren, Ekvall and Tomson, 2006...
transformational leadership (Bass, 1990). Transactional leadership, in general, is a leadership approach focused on processes and ...
however, it is important that leadership development include everyone in the organization (Putney, 2011). It is, of course, unreas...
controversial. This is because, typically speaking, the study of ethics concerns itself with abstracted justifications of human ac...
have taken the front seat like at no other time in history. Many successful CEOs and executives have become celebrities in their o...
orders and who commands total discipline, like a military commander. It is not difficult to understand from where such a concept e...
A typical response laments the lack of cohesion and "togetherness" in a workplace that results from estrangement from leadership. ...
world, from London and Toronto to Tokyo and Bombay. The organization also makes extensive use of information technology in organiz...