The authors also find that the firms where these antecedents are most present are those in which either leadership style is highly evident. Firms that lack either leadership style are the lowest performing with respect to quality management. The ul Continue Reading...
Indeed, this seems a direct response to the prevailing understanding of how one must ultimately achieve organizational effectiveness by seizing on common ground. As our research denotes, "humans are primordial team players. Our uniquely complex soci Continue Reading...
Leadership Northouse (2013) recognizes that leadership is a broad concept that is difficult to define, and that definitions of leadership vary from situation to situation and culture to culture. There are different ways of conceptualizing leadership Continue Reading...
Leadership Behavioral Approach "Leadership is the lifting of people's vision to a higher sight, the raising of their performance to a higher standard, and the building of their personality beyond its normal limitations" (Drucker, 1985). Ability to i Continue Reading...
This is significant, because the author cites studies that indicate how organizations that have a high degree of transformational leadership skills throughout each layer of their companies are much more adept at transforming all forms of knowledge i Continue Reading...
Leadership Herb Kelleher is making waves in the air. As one of the world's foremost examples of democratic leadership, the co-founder and executive chair of Southwest Airlines is an exemplar for effective leadership behavior. His and his company's b Continue Reading...
Leadership Type a versus Type B Leadership The ability to guide and direct a group, department or entire organization is predicated on being able to balance task and relationship orientation through transformational leadership. The most effective l Continue Reading...
One reason has to do with the intellectual hurdles that senior executives jump in obtaining their jobs. It takes at least an IQ of about 110 to 120 to get an advanced degree such as an MBA. There is thus a high selection pressure for IQ in order to Continue Reading...
Leadership Styles: How to Become an Effective Leader Power Perspective and Leader as Representatives Extrovert and Introvert Emotional Intelligence (EI) Competencies to Leadership Effectiveness Task-Oriented Leadership Satisfaction and Performan Continue Reading...
Leadership Style One of the most insightful things that I ever read about leadership and leading a group of people, is that "leadership is less about your needs, and more about the needs of the people and the organization you are leading" (wsj, 2014 Continue Reading...
Leadership Analysis of OSIM High growth technology companies are fertile organizations for the conflicts of leadership styles. The incessant need for accelerating new product development and staying in step with customer needs on the one hand and th Continue Reading...
The individual with high self-awareness will also be able to deal with others more effectively even if the other person is difficult. The self-aware individual has a better understanding of his or her own goals and so of the goals of others. The per Continue Reading...
Leadership Challenge -- Leadership Credibility The catalyst of all successful leadership is trust and the ability to stay consistent, transparent and honest even in the midst of exceptionally challenging and stressful situations. Paradoxically this Continue Reading...
And the customers, well, the customers -- no special request was too much to honor. Employee retention is of special difficulty in retail, and today I am inspired by your example of emotional intelligence to apply the same principles to my own work Continue Reading...
Emotional labor is an important aspect of what people do in their jobs, as Grandey rightly points out. Also considered, though, is the regulation of emotion within the workplace, because there have been workplace shootings, cases of rage, rapes, kil Continue Reading...
Leadership Priorities and Practice in Organizational Management The enterprise software industry is going through a series of disruptive innovations that are disrupting the economics of the industry while also shifting the balance of power away from Continue Reading...
Emotional Labor in the Hospitality Industry Customer service, regardless of venue, albeit clinical, retail, collections, telemarketing, or hospitality, is one on the most difficult employment areas within which to be employed. Servicing people requi Continue Reading...
Leadership vs. Management It has often been said that a manager is what one does, and a leader is who one is. The leading theorists who are studying management and leadership have a myriad of studies that support this contention of leadership being Continue Reading...
Intelligence Testing Intelligence -- Nature/Nurture Debate In psychological terms, intelligence can be defined as "the general mental ability involved in calculating, reasoning, perceiving relationships and analogies, learning quickly, storing and Continue Reading...
Leadership and Development Industry: Commercial Construction Job Title: Regional Project Manager Position Description Personal Leadership Assessment Plan of Action In examining myself for the position of project manager for Solomon builders, un Continue Reading...
Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs Steve Jobs was a transformational leader, both from a technological and human leadership standpoint. Having not only launched Apple but also saved it from bankruptcy when he returned in 1997, Steve Jobs showed a un Continue Reading...
However, seeking solution to conflicts is not an easy task. The conflict needs to be seen in a different perspective and it has to be accepted as not necessarily harmful and will actually help in the growth and development of a person. Contributing Continue Reading...
Leadership Theories There are a number of theories of leadership that can be applied to my own personal development plan in counselling. I first look to servant leadership as a unique approach to leadership, wherein it is emphasized that the effect Continue Reading...
Many cultures may not have the same ideas of law that is present within American society, and sometimes people may break American laws without truly understanding that they have even committed a crime. This can create a conflict between cultures, wh Continue Reading...
The first point addressed by Clark's review determines that a fundamental change in medical perspective had begun to transpire with the assumption of varying clinical research investigations on the subject. This would contribute to what Clark ident Continue Reading...
Leadership in Organizations Transformational Leadership in the 21st Century It is often said a manager is what one does, and a leader is who one is. Leadership theorists, experts and practitioners agree that leadership, especially the turbulent 21 Continue Reading...
Leadership: The concept of leadership is an issue that has elicited considerable debate in the recent past to an extent that there is an extensive body of research and literature that addresses the issue. Some of the most common issues in the wide Continue Reading...
These factors -- self-awareness, self-concept and emotional intelligence -- will also affect one's leadership style. High levels of these traits would make one a perfect candidate for servant leadership, but if levels of these traits differ, they c Continue Reading...
He learned quickly, showed political prowess, was not afraid to lead his followers in troubled times (like the Screen Actors' strike), and he could think on his feet, develop his own very moving speeches, and he had very strong beliefs which he was Continue Reading...
When an organization and individual can synchronize their goals and expectations, there is a greater level of trust developed. All of these factors taken together also fuel a very high level of energy on the part of an organization; trust is an acce Continue Reading...
Leadership Traits Necessary to Excel in the 21st Century In the book Good to Great (Collins, 2001) a framework for transforming companies from mediocre or average performance to exceptional levels of accomplishment is presented. The author boils do Continue Reading...
He let them know truthfully and honestly what was expected of them, that the journey would be difficult, and that they would all be in the situation together. He was honest about the impending Civil War when he first took office, and he was honest w Continue Reading...
Use of Transformational Leadership Traits in Emergency Service Oversight In the context of emergency service oversight, each of the four components of transformational leadership are critical in that each much be orchestrated with the other to ens Continue Reading...
Theoretical Foundation The basis of this research is contingency theory. Contingency theory suggests leadership effectiveness depends mostly on situational variables. Personality and other subjective measures can be considered contingencies. Likewise Continue Reading...
Leadership Perceptions of what makes a leader Possessing leadership qualities entails more than simply having a leadership position with a title. In fact, some of the most effective organizational leaders may have no official designation as a lead Continue Reading...
