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ability is particularly important in military organizations. The security environment has become ever more challenging, warranting even more effective leadership (Laver, 2008). Military organizations now grapple with challenges such as craftier enemies, international terrorism, increased incidence of natural disasters, and reduced budgetary allocations. Internally, military organizations face challenges relating to issues such as personnel motivation and retention, capacity building, and veteran welfare. Yet, military organizations must constantly ensure national security. Navigating the increasingly complex security environment requires military leaders to have certain qualities. This paper discusses these qualities. Attention is particularly paid to situational leadership, integrity, people skills, effective communication, time management skills, teamwork, coping with stress, succession… Continue Reading...
leaders can only lead well at home. Global leaders transcend cultural diversity and differences and provide effective leadership behaviors within any context. This is because they are aware of the key differences cultures have and can group them in such a way that allows for easier understanding and successful strategy implementation. Because cultural style can dictate the ethical perception of a leader in terms of authority, power, and influence, this paper will focus on diversity and ethical decision-making and its influences on leadership models. Additionally, the paper will explore certain commonly accepted leadership traits and how servant leadership may be used as an effective tool for… Continue Reading...
Leadership Qualities and Nursing Practice
Effective leaders often leave a mark in the lives of those they lead, even many years after the encounter, even if the encounter was a brief one. One of the greatest leaders that have had significant influence over my life is my current Director of nurses with whom I have enjoyed working and gotten inspired over the brief encounter we have had. When I found myself under her leadership, at first I was apprehensive and unsure of what to expect from her. However, over time she has proven to not… Continue Reading...
Public sector leaders often have to work with fewer resources to address increasingly complex challenges. In addition, effective leadership in the public sector is vital for not only driving employee motivation and performance, but also ensuring efficient performance of government agencies and the government in general (McCarthy, 2015). Indeed, leadership is important for effective public governance -- transparency, accountability, planning, efficiency, and so forth (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD], 2001). Another challenge stems from the fact that public sector leaders operate within a conundrum of bureaucratic rules, processes, and processes, which affect processes such as communication, delegation, and teamwork (Teelken, Ferlie & Dent, 2012). In… Continue Reading...
accepted more readily as an efficient management norm (Jackson et al., 2014). The abovementioned popular view of effective leadership by males was explained using the argument that females in leadership roles were more supportive and less aggressive. They characteristically aid and encourage their subordinates, are flexible, and evade conflict through cooperative discussions. Stereotypical females are now faced with a conundrum. They may continue to function as democratic, supportive leaders and seek a means to earn workforce acknowledgment of their leadership status, or take on a more aggressive, masculine approach to leadership for ensuring people view them as more authoritative personalities epitomizing control.
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This essaydescribes the meaning of leadership and defines the characteristics and qualities of effective leaders. It discusses the manner in which leadership skills can be developed and assesses the importance of leadership in organizations seeking to achieve specific aims. Leadership styles, such as servant leadership and transformational leadership, are analyzed and qualities such as boldness, good judgment and emotional intelligence are examined to show how they support effective leadership. The paper concludes with a discussion of what leadership means to different people and how leadership styles can reflect an individuals own subjective take on leadership and how it should be demonstrated.
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leadership style. Their interest in the area is based on claims that effective leadership style and Emotional Intelligence are linked. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and leadership style giving emphasis to transformational in organizations and countries by incorporating the concept of organizational culture. The future existence of agencies has been determined primarily by their ability to adapt to continuous change. As such, the study also looks into unveiling the actual role of gender in determining leadership style and Emotional Intelligence as effective areas of organizational behavior. In concluding the research, the study looks… Continue Reading...
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Shafiee, H., Razminia, E., & Zeymaran, N. (2016). Investigating the relationship between
organizational structure factors and personnel performance. International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 3(2), 160-165.
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Part 2: Leadership Theories
The importance of effective leadership in organizational success is indisputable. In fact, leadership is what differentiates successful and high-performing organizations from the rest. Leadership is essentially the process of guiding a group of people to achieve a defined goal or objective (Landis, Hill & Harvey, 2014). Scholarly work on the topic of leadership has… Continue Reading...
still be gendered. Meaning, society views only men as the main bread winners and capable of being effective leaders that entrepreneurs are defined as. This paper supports this assumption and will provide evidence of gendered entrepreneurship as well as literature that goes against such notion, demonstrating the potential for the gender gap to narrow in the future.
To first understand the potential of gendered entrepreneurship, one must first define it. Gendered entrepreneurship is a hypothesis considering entrepreneurship to have gendered patterns. The UK was the first to provide gender-specific statistics that demonstrated both gender orders and gender systems exist in all spheres, including the third sector (Lundstrom,… Continue Reading...
is given as follows. "Any organization should aim to acquire and retain the best talent and effective leadership ensures that good employees are kept happy and satisfied at their positions." (Shagufta Parvenn & Adeel Tariq, 2012).
Gender Stereotyping
Gender and sex are often viewed as interchangeable terms. This is not correct as there are nuances to the meaning of each word. The World Health Organization's definition of gender encompasses the roles, activities, attributes and behaviors that the society appropriates to men and women. Sex, on the other hand, is physiological and biological characteristics defining men and women. Sex is denoted by 'Female or Male' while gender… Continue Reading...
making, personnel decisions, and budget planning. Despite the establishment of such hierarchy, the agencies lack effective leadership given that policymakers always confound leadership with management though can be quite different. The major characteristics of leadership include effective communication, being visionary, empathy, consistency, flexibility, and honesty. These characteristics enable leaders to respond to situations in a holistic and wider perspective beyond their own desires. On the contrary, the primary traits of management include planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating, and controlling (Vliet, 2014).
The response to Hurricane Katrina failed because of lack of planning, coordination, and controlling the response initiatives. While there were early warnings of the potential… Continue Reading...
conflicts are job burnout, poor compensation and benefits strategies, unsuitable organizational culture, ineffective leadership style, and poor decision-making.
According to Sims (2002), managing misbehavior, individual stress, and conflicts in the workplace is a multidimensional process that requires the use of different strategies. Managers and leaders in an organization can manage these factors through several measures including the use of proper leadership styles/management techniques, teem meetings, and establishing effective communication channels (Sims, 2002). Additionally, organizations can effective manage misbehavior, stress, and conflicts through lessening uncertainties in the workplace and establishing appropriate assistance and wellness programs for employees.
Thau, Aquino, Poortvliet (2007) argue that… Continue Reading...
good leader. Even if the power is granted to them through the organization/business, effective leadership can make management functions easier by promoting communication and effective influence. The traits theory was often used to predict the potential manifestation of leadership abilities in any given individual. When examining leadership ability in managers, it is important to assess the ability of the manager to promote goal completion among subordinates as well as satisfaction and growth in job related tasks.
The chosen organization is Florida Gang Investigators Association and it has a mission statement to intervene, prevent, and enforce suppression against criminal gang activity. "This mission will… Continue Reading...
popularity of the command and control leadership approach does not mean that it is an effective leadership style. Its popularity could be due to managers who are unwilling to relinquish control to their followers. A manager who feels they will lose their autonomy when they allow their followers to share ideas and lead will certainly lose the followers to a better more accommodative leader. In order for change to become effective, a leader should be willing to maintain open communication and seek solutions for any challenges that they might face along the… Continue Reading...
ability of the organization to fulfill its goals. Personal experiences with both effective and ineffective leadership development and transition planning lend further insight into how the military in general may improve its organizational culture and human resources practices, to ensure the ongoing recruitment and retention of top performers.
Personal experiences also shed light on the importance of ethical leadership, particularly in hierarchical organizations like the army. I had the pleasure once of training under a senior officer who worked within the servant leadership framework. The servant leadership framework, which is typically contextualized under the rubric of spiritual leadership theory, resituates the role of the… Continue Reading...
Essay Prompt
Introduction:
Throughout your life, you have been under the leadership of both effective and ineffective leaders.
You have also been part of both effective and ineffective organizations. Those memories (both
pleasant and painful) are deeply ingrained in your mind, but you may have never stopped to consider
why you loved or hated a particular persons style or a particular organizations policies.
Well, here is your chance! In this class, we have been examining human nature and leadership from
several perspectives. Your task is to apply that academic knowledge to your own history.
Source Material:
You may include any leaders that you served under in… Continue Reading...
to understand the characteristics of their followers. While empowering leadership is arguably one of the most effective leadership styles, leaders must recognise that the style may not always be effective. More specifically, the style may not work if followers do not have an inherent desire for autonomy. If followers have a high need for autonomy, then applying empowering leadership would be appropriate. Without this knowledge, leaders may be frustrated by failed attempts to empower their subordinates.
But how can organisational leaders establish whether or not their followers desire autonomy. According to Yun, Cox & Sims (2006, p. 383), this is “a matter of common sense.” Yet,… Continue Reading...
to investigate the various factors that inhibit the effective leadership of virtual teams. Further, it would also be enlightening to highlight and assess the various approaches that today’s leaders could adopt in an attempt to effectively direct, control, and govern virtual teams.
Discussion
In the past, typical teams were located in the same geographic setting – perhaps within the same building or office complex. Leading such teams towards the attainment of organizational goals was not considered to be a big challenge as in most instances, work schedules were largely the same and skillsets as well as backgrounds did… Continue Reading...
unnecessary redundancy, inefficiency, and potential security breaches. The risks with mandatory interagency collaboration can be managed and mitigated through effective leadership and management. Failures in interagency partnerships have highlighted the primary areas of concern, which include role clarity and control over programs and services (Byles, 1985). Poor communication, lack of genuine collaboration, and power struggles emerge when the interagency partnerships are poorly designed, or when there are no clear guidelines for project and task management (Byles, 1985). Learning from mistakes in past interagency partnership failures has helped policymakers and leaders to construct more effective means of designing and maintaining these relationships.
Interagency partnerships do benefit from being ensconced in… Continue Reading...
What are the most important requisite skills required of organizational leaders? Why? How do effective and ineffective leadership behaviors affect employees both positively and negatively?
The most important skill of an organizational leader is to be able to motivate people, contrary to the assumption leadership is synonymous with telling people what to do in an authoritative fashion. Although in some limited instances, when a matter is urgent and followers are inexperienced, authoritarian leadership may be required, for the most part, people work best when they feel empowered to do so. According to Hersey-Blanchard leadership theory (2018), the four dominant modes of leadership include telling, selling, supporting… Continue Reading...
