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Essays 1951 - 1980

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein and the Concept of Leadership

Rico hails from a privileged background, and Heinlein makes it clear that only through Johnnies military indoctrination in Officer...

A Change in the Leadership Style at Ford

This paper examines the way change took place in Ford, moving towards a more participative style. The first section assessing the ...

Leading with Ethics

Institute presents reports on an regular basis of the most ethical companies in the world and each report reaffirms the fact that ...

Wal-Mart: A Microeconomic Analysis

fact that it is often used in contrast with the broad and expansive topic of macroeconomics gives rise to the misconception that m...

Five Leadership Theories

of trait theories is that a person is born with leadership traits. In other words, these theories argue that leaders are born, not...

Leadership and Motivation

some sort of motivational program, whether it is one that is planned and implemented or it is more informal as is the case in my v...

The Fiedler Contingency Model: An Overview

to explain the effectiveness of various style of leadership, as well as their utility in contextual situations. Many people who ap...

LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE THEORY

a particular group, or organization, meet its goals. We can see LMX at work in winning sports teams. Typically, its not the...

Emotional Intelligence

the more recent theories on this topic is Golemans theory of emotional intelligence. Goleman was not the first author who proposed...

Leadership Skills and Open Communication at Mattel

blame rests with the leaders of that organization. Even multinational corporations are no different. Reports from toy giant Mattel...

Comparing Two Leadership Styles

leadership was to distinguish between transactional and transformational leadership. There are some similarities between them and ...

Four Leadership Theories

public sector. This includes the military although the military is an organization that demands obedience and rightfully so. There...

How Two Leaders Made Changes

in trouble. Gordon Bethune took over Continental Airlines. All stakeholders of Continental, including employees, shareholders and ...

LEADING GROUPS IN A CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZTION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

departments (and elsewhere, for that matter), leaders are "expected to be competent managers who inspire their followers to do eff...

ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP TOPICS

can do, therefore, is to do his/her best, learn as much as s/he can from the organization, then move on (either voluntarily or inv...

True And Genuine Leadership

The vision and commitment are not enough in the scheme of things, they have devised ways to measure progress towards the goal (Swi...

Managing Large Beverage Firm

This paper discusses several related topics. The first is the difference between leadership and management and includes a report o...

Leadership Styles of Buffett and Helu

Forbes named the richest man in Mexico and one of the richest men in the world. Helu formed Grupo Carso, S.A. de C.V. in 1990 thro...

Different Styles of Leadership

is to discuss the leadership style of two executives from widely divergent companies. The paper discusses the findings of Dulewicz...

MOTIVATIONAL THEORIES AND LEADERSHIP STYLES

Discusses leadership and motivational theories in the workplace. There are 4 sources listed in the bibliography of this 7-page pap...

Managing Cultural Diversity

trust, expectations, and how to give feedback (Wellings, 2009). Both organizational leaders and managers would gain a great deal ...

2 Journal Articles on Special Education Programs and School Leadership

In six pages these journal articles on school administrative leadership and programs for special education are critiqued. Two sou...

Chapter Summaries for 'Leadership and Racial Integration in the Army'

This is a 6 page paper that summarizes Charles C. Moskos and John S. Butler's text, All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racia...

Development of Leadership

In five pages this paper discusses leadership enhancement and how strengths can be effectively developed. Ten sources are cited i...

Different Leaders with the Same Message

In 7 pages this paper discusses the political leadership and revolutionary beliefs of Camilo Torres and Mahatma Gandhi in a consid...

Faith and Character of George Washington

his sons small face, he wished great things for him. "We shall call him George," he said as he turned to his wife, "George Washin...

Organizational Change and Leadership Dynamics

In thirty pages this paper presents a research project case study in a consideration of the connection between leadership and orga...

Roadhouse Film, Management, and Organizational Behavior

In fifteen pages this report considers Patrick Swayze's 1989 film in an analysis of the character Dalton's views regarding organiz...

Charlemagne, Carolingian Emperor

In three pages the model life of Charlemagne is discussed and the ways in which his leadership established a common purpose that d...

Rite Aid's New Horizons

In ten pages this paper examines where Rite Aid should go from here after the late 1990s' leadership fiasco of Chief Executive Off...