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Contemporary Organizational Leadership

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...

U.S. Army and Leadership Theory

In six pages this research paper examines the differences between transactional and transformational leadership and also applies t...

Attribution Theory, Leadership, and Organizational Behavior

Witte said, "We tried a more conciliatory management in 1995, both in the way we operated our mines, and in the way our head offic...

Controversial Management of Shell Oil Company

In five pages this paper examines the organization's controversial management approach that includes learning and bureaucracy and ...

Self Learning and Organizational Learning

want to survive and thrive in an increasingly competitive environment. philosophy but he takes this idea a stage further. ...

HRM Annotated Bibliography

have created a framework in which practitioners can "develop innovative instruments to measure the relationship among" human resou...

Book Review: "The Nature Of Leadership" By Antonakis Et Al

overview of varying aspects associated with leadership, concepts that include defining/assessing, transforming, developing and gen...

The Organization v. The Strategy

strategy, with different types of strategy approaches being used. The idea is that strategy can determine actions and the way in w...

DMAIC or MBO?

statistical control. Deming (2000) extended this to SoPK, saying it is necessary to have an understanding of both common cause va...

Managing Risk

their prevention or management or through the transferee of risk to another party for a fee, such as insurance (Howells and Bain. ...

Service Organizations in the Implementation of TQM

from its introduction. The meaning may be different to the various people or organizations that implement or study it as there is ...

CHANGE MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES - TWO ESSAYS

Two essays dealing with change management and includes six images of change, as well as linking change to an organization's change...

Unified Corporate Culture in Multinational Organizations

directors are given with two fingers rather than pointing with one, through to the customer service orientation value (Kober, 2009...

X- AND Y-THEORY AND LOGISTICS

empowerment and the taking of responsibility. Though it might seem as though these two are at the opposite end of the spectrum, le...

The Practice of Supply Chain Management and Logistics Management at McDonald's

the consistency and qualities of the inputs are also key to the delivery of this experience. The sale of food and beverage items...

Potential Supply Chain Management Risks for Two Retail Organizations

The risks associated with procurement start with increases to the price of the inputs that are purchased which have not been expec...

The McKinsey 7 S's Framework and Harvard Model of HRM

issues within an organization (Rasiel and Frigam 2001). The 7 factors identified are shared values, strategy, structure, systems, ...

Communication in Organizations

The control and approach to the formal communication will also impact on the culture and the way informal communication take place...

Does An Effective Learning And Development Strategy Enables Organizations To Compete More Effectively?

order to asses show firms can use learning to create and maintain competitive advantages it is first necessary to look at the conc...

The Organization as a Machine

The organization as a machine is one of the more common metaphors for organizations emerging in the early years of studying manage...

Administration and Management of Public Organizations

In a paper of eleven pages, the writer looks at public organizations. The administration of such organizations is explored, as wel...

Improving Organizations in Crisis

The writer looks at two issues facing organizations in crisis. The first is the optimization of information flow in a firm by exam...

Interview and Assessment of Leadership Style

Leadership takes place in many ways. The aim of this paper is to examine a leader and their leadership style with an interview, an...

Do Projects Fail because of People and Communication?

of a single or single set of objectives, rather than an ongoing repeated process. For example, planning the building of a structur...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Sir Richard Branson Leadership Approaches And Practices

Virgin Atlantic Airways (Woopidoo, 2005). In 1999, he founded Virgin Mobile and in that same year, published his book entitled, "L...

Adversity Management and the Case of John Hancock

seen as undermining work-place equality (Rijamampianina and Carmichael, 2005). Therefore, managing diversity has to be undertaken ...

Managing Large Beverage Firm

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

Reflection on Leadership

influences, such as culture, available skills and needs and the training, development and/or programs that are, or are not, utiliz...

Sports Facility Management

right thing. The confusion is valid because there is a thin line between a leader and a manager. In fact, managers do lead and l...