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and involvement in decision making. This is a very common sense type approach. It makes sense that a highly motivated and highly...

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...

orders and who commands total discipline, like a military commander. It is not difficult to understand from where such a concept e...

an interesting text on leadership in that it attempts to achieve a synthesis of classical leadership ideals with modern contempora...

A typical response laments the lack of cohesion and "togetherness" in a workplace that results from estrangement from leadership. ...

change is likely to see resistance and the potential for failure increases. It is only when resistance to changes overcome that a ...

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 -...

organizations and people through a series of changes is vital if that change is going to be successful. Public security officials ...

Unfortunately, unlike quantitative skills such as financial analysis, risk assessment, project management, and so on, leadership i...

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...

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...

social work, one can find many people idealistically devoted to causes that are important to them. It is not an easy path to becom...

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 ...

sort of person who can truly identify with the values the organization wishes to promote, and so on (Brown & Mitchell, 2010). Th...

2009). Contingency styles consider the relationship between the leader and follower, the specific task, and power (Doyle & Smith, ...

well, which was located 41 miles from the Louisiana coast (Hoffman and Jennings, 2010). The disaster struck on 20 April 2010 durin...

situation, whereas transformational leaders assign higher importance to people and emotional needs (Avolio & Yammarino, 2002). The...

Most academics promote the premise that one is born with leadership ability or not but management can be taught. When he discusse...

behavioral theory, anyone has the potential to become an effective leader if he or she is willing to examine what behaviors are co...

around the ten-dollar mark, but books that are significantly lower are often perceived as being of a reduced value and people may ...

the value of leadership might strive to emphasize this capacity of emotional intelligence among all organizational leaders. This...