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communication and interaction between the commander, subordinates, and Soldiers reinforces trust. Soldiers expect to see the chain of command accomplishing the mission while taking care of their welfare and sharing hardships and danger” (p. 19). Nothing creates a better environment for teamwork than the ability of all members to recognize that their leader is sharing their burdens and struggles with them and leading by example in an open, honest and transparent manner.
Trust and cohesion are measures of climate; leaders must understand the dimensions of trust and its impact on its own Soldiers and units. Commanders are the ones who are responsible for the team building… Continue Reading...
decisions to be made at the regional subsidiaries.
By and large, FedEx works with a strict hierarchy for its chain of command, within the overnight business. Each manager will have a manager above – so a manager of a city facility will report to a regional manager, who will report to a national manager. The national manager reports back to Memphis. Within that, Memphis provides considerable operating support, including most scheduling. The job of local managers is to adapt their practices to meet organizational needs and to align with whatever times for plane arrivals that are mandated from Memphis.
Span of control is usually restricted by geography, until it… Continue Reading...
& Consulting, 2016).
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Jurisdictional Lead Agencies
For Level 1 Incident:
Local Fire Department—the FD will take jurisdiction lead as Incident Commander and establish chain of command with local police.
Public Works—will report up the chain of command through local FD for prevention and response clean-up facilitation to a limited degree, giving place and jurisdiction to County Emergency Management.
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doing. The paramilitary model is rooted in a type of hierarchical order or chain of command in which the decisions are made by leaders at the top (Cruickshank, 2013). Individual officers, like soldiers in the field, are meant to follow orders and if they do not follow orders, they are relieved of duty or disciplined so that they learn from their mistake. The focus and emphasis is on obeying the chain of command, which means that police departments must have very good leaders capable of making good decisions and training their officers to follow commands in the line of duty.
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and certainly does not align itself with models like transformational leadership, which could potentially undermine chain of command. However, the Army always needs situational leaders: those who have a high degree of situational awareness and the ability to respond to change with decisive action. This course has revealed the complexities of Army leadership, in that we need to inspire followership based on principles, values, and intrinsic motivation while also respecting organizational culture and chain of command.
The relationship between power and ethics is also critical to… Continue Reading...
chain of command - even the PM, or that fails, passes it to their American allies, who although basically cannot comprehend why the British are so indecisive, give mixed responses (Mccurdy, 2016).
Although the moral dilemma of "Eye in the Sky" is one of the experiment that is relevant to the U.S. Coalition drone programme, its effect is negligible. Framing a debate on the drone warfare's ethics is risky since it disregards and conceals ethical questions that are much more pertinent. Instead of considering whether to murder one guiltless individual… Continue Reading...
a department manager, and so on. The hierarchy of the chain of command is still going to exist, and reports will still be required of both. The ability to communicate will exist for both types of teams (though it will differ between them, as virtual team members will rely mainly on message boards, threads, emails, or Skype sessions, while face to face teams will have the opportunity to speak in person). The team will exist for a purpose in both cases, and when the project is completed the team will likely be disbanded, though members may be retained for further… Continue Reading...
Leadership
Vision and foresight
Virtuous character
Decisive action
Followership
Offering dissenting opinions but ultimately submitting to the leader’s vision
Following orders for the good of the Army
Adhering to a chain of command for the greater good
Both (intersection)
Trust in shared values and goals
Mutual respect and empowerment
Humility
Virtuous character
humility
Mind Map
egolessness
Servant Leadership
Bureaucracy
Chain of command
humility
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hierarchical settings, such as the military, where there is a clear chain of command: the leader at the top passes down the orders to those below, who pass them on out to their subordinates. There is no room for questioning the leader or for inserting one’s own will into the process: one gets orders, and one obeys them. As De Cremer (2006) points out, there is no room for latitude—one must stick to commands as they are.
Autocratic leadership traits are most often associated with masculinity or with male-dominated organizations (Eagly & Johannesen-Schmidt, 2001). This style of leadership is often associated… Continue Reading...
settings. It may be rooted right in the main essence of organizational structure from where delegation of authority and chain of command were introduced. In lieu of human psychology to stay conscious when being observed and monitored, it is more likely that they are not in normal state of mind but in stress. As relaxation leads to slow motion of work and decreased productivity consequently, many organizations deliberately introduce supervision and monitoring systems (Robbins & Coulter, 2007) so that employees perform at their optimum level. It can be concluded that when employees are in occupational stress, they tend to perform better (Hartley, 2010).
As there is a perceived relationship… Continue Reading...
leading to a stifling organizational culture. Employees are undervalued. Because of the chain of command, they have no opportunities to contribute their ideas to the organization. Employees like Peter are restricted to their interactions with their immediate supervisor. Moreover, subordinates do not learn about big picture issues: the reasons why things like the TPS report are important. Given the organizational hierarchy, it is even unlikely Lumburgh knows why the TPS report is important, which is why he nitpicks about the cover page. Lumburgh’s attitude toward subordinates is condescending, dehumanizing people like Peter instead of empowering them and encouraging them to contribute and… Continue Reading...
also follows a common-sense approach through which communication moves across a chain of command.
For Made at TU, vertical communication takes place through ensuring that the faculty and students interact regularly towards carrying out various roles and responsibilities. While students are mandated with the responsibility of creating projects that meet the needs of the locally disabled people, they need to work with the faculty to ensure development of suitable projects. Since the students are still learning, they work in collaboration with the faculty to ensure that the understand the needs of local residents and create relevant projects towards meeting… Continue Reading...
stringent checks and balances, public sector leaders have to grapple with bureaucratic rules, processes, and procedures. Such bureaucracy means that lines of authority, chain of command, and reporting procedures can be cumbersome and time consuming. For public sector leaders, bureaucracy can be challenging as it may often slow decision making.
In addition to bureaucracy, public sector leaders in the contemporary world face even more complex challenges. With growing public sector budgets, public sector leaders are increasingly required to work with leaner budgets or fewer resources (McCarthy, 2015). Compared to a few decades ago, public sector organizations today have more sophisticated challenges to deal with. There have been tremendous changes in the political, social,… Continue Reading...
framework of a larger organization, to maintain a code of honor, and to preserve the integrity of order and the chain of command which facilitated it.
Furthermore, I learned a great deal of self-confidence from working in the armed forces. Although camaraderie is a large part of the experience in the army, I also had to rely on my self and my prowess in a number of different situations. In the regiments in which I was a part of, I was forced to fulfill job functions with a certain degree of autonomy. As such, I earned the virtues of self-reliance and confidence which has prepared me for some of the… Continue Reading...
Organizing constitutes a crucial management function. It is essentially concerned with task allocation, division of labor, chain of command, lines of authority and communication, delegation, span of control, as well as supervision and coordination (Shafiee, Razminia & Zeymaran, 2016). The manner in which these processes are organized significantly influences organizational effectiveness and efficiency. It determines how quick or slow decisions are made and implemented. This is particularly important in a constantly evolving environment, in which agility is a crucial parameter of competitive advantage (Felin & Powell, 2016). Organizational structure also shapes relationships between superiors and subordinates (Shafiee, Razminia & Zeymaran, 2016).
There are different ways through… Continue Reading...
