Essays 331 - 360
see increase their productivity and value adding contributions. The leader has to understand expectancy theory in terms of leaders...
provides a tool for analyzing external conditions and evaluating the industry in which the organization operates. The Porter mode...
leadership training, including training that focuses on motivational elements, communication skills, and the development of leader...
sees the gestalt, the large picture, who has natural insight into what will happen and acts to meet those future challenges before...
attributes these men and women have to lead a corporation (or other agency). In one chapter, Chapter 5, the authors analyze a stud...
personal capacity. The most important role of a leader is to impact the people he leads and creating a link between the actions o...
has changed considerably over the years as has the political identity of this country and how it is perceived both by its citizens...
Classical leaders tended to view the end as the ultimate goal, rather than focusing on the means to the end (Crawford and Brungard...
Leadership and Management In the past a leader and a manager were seen as one and the same thing, with the advent of scientific ma...
expected to perform the task in their machine like manner. The tasks were broken down into the smallest components which would acq...
or some sort of business "disguise." Rather it is a state of being in which the ultimate conclusion is the melding of multiple ag...
leadership, managers let subordinates know what is expected of them, and what they can hope to receive if they meet specific objec...
extend the list to five. Those functions are planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. In the past, managers ha...
system that had failed (Keppler Associates, nd). Had the men become over-anxious, they would use more oxygen, thereby shortening t...
to be the same for leaders across contexts or cultures and second, some believe leadership skills cannot be taught or trained (Mar...
with equipment and teaching and directing from a distance, decision making and general management will be more effective. In term...
This paper examines the corporate leadership climb of Jack Welch and the management techniques his autobiography provides with com...
be accomplished - such as within a department that has to keep pace with the rest of the organization - even individual managers c...
organizations and people through a series of changes is vital if that change is going to be successful. Public security officials ...
an interesting text on leadership in that it attempts to achieve a synthesis of classical leadership ideals with modern contempora...
Understanding the motivational contingencies of team leadership. Small Group Research, 41(5), 621-651. This is an important arti...
how it can impact organizational performance Leadership is one of the most important determining aspects of a companys success -...
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...
Childs (1972) it is the leader, in the form of the CEO that is responsible for making the strategic choices within an organization...
Discusses various leadership styles, and determines if there is a "right" style of leadership. There are 6 sources listed in the b...
It was following this decision and an approach by IBM that the firm acquired IBMs PC division for $1,74 billion (Schuman, 2010)....
personal values, personality, and on other beliefs. A leaders philosophy of leadership will be observed in his leadership style an...
the principles of good business. Success in business depends largely upon the ability to quickly and efficiently adapt to these ch...
on the actions and behaviour of leaders, in this approach leadership was perceived in the context of human behaviour. This was an ...