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provides a tool for analyzing external conditions and evaluating the industry in which the organization operates. The Porter mode...

Classical leaders tended to view the end as the ultimate goal, rather than focusing on the means to the end (Crawford and Brungard...

be accomplished - such as within a department that has to keep pace with the rest of the organization - even individual managers c...

extend the list to five. Those functions are planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. In the past, managers ha...

with equipment and teaching and directing from a distance, decision making and general management will be more effective. In term...

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...

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...

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...

strategy and direction. DaimlerChrysler chief Jurgen Schrempp insisted that "There is a division line between a good strat...

see increase their productivity and value adding contributions. The leader has to understand expectancy theory in terms of leaders...

a better match between what students learn and what industry needs, in other words, a better transfer of knowledge from college/un...

to ensure that the rules were obeyed and the productively was maintained or increased. (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The focu...

In six pages and 3 parts this paper discusses the leadership of Yugoslavia's Tito, then discusses Martin Luther King, Arafat, with...

service rather than on profit. Chappell has indicated that he wants his managers "to know that there are alternatives to plotting...

This 8 page paper is written in 2 parts,. The first part looks at a Turkish business; Çolakoglu A.S, a yarn manufacturer, and exam...

person they want to be (Drucker in Hesselbein et al, 1997). Charles Handy, another recognised management Guru cites the short-sigh...

Sacrificial leadership: Jesus sacrificed Himself for all of mankind (Chandra, 2004). Servant leadership is most often associated...

ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...

but only in "parts." The authors relate the story of a favorite illustration of inventor Buckminster Fuller who would hold up his...

leaders must be able to understand what is changing in the market and in the global economy (American Library Association, 2007). ...

defining the leadership characteristics that would be the focus of this educational effort (Pintar, Capuano and Rosser, 2007). As ...

Reward and reinforcement occurs when a reward follows an "occurrence of a specific behavior" such that the behavior is acknowledge...

person must be well-adjusted, self-confident, enthusiastic, ambitious, is willing to take risks after careful analysis, is honest ...

be incorporated into our actions. The Book of Acts shows that the Apostles and the disciples followed through on this type of le...

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...

distrust, as such the style (Kotter, 1999) is one that does not seek to use an autocratic style and allows the employees to be hea...