The quantitative data were analyzed using simple descriptive statistics employing percentages and the mean. The descriptive statistics generated were used to support several of the positions of the authors. Unfortunately, they did not provide stati Continue Reading...
Leaders in Healthcare Facilities THE CAUSE AND ITS REMEDIES Lack of Leadership in Healthcare Facilities When clinicians provide care, they necessarily assume leadership responsibilities (Blumenthal et al., 2012). Existing evidence demonstrates th Continue Reading...
Is the System Under Stress? Book Review of Kettls Homeland Security and American PoliticsIntroductionThis review covers Kettls (2007) System Under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics, published by CQ Press in Washington, D.C. (pp. 151). T Continue Reading...
Leadership, according to La Monica (1938), is when a person has authority that is recognized by others, and the person has followers/subordinates under them, who believe that the person will assist them in attaining certain goals (carrying out speci Continue Reading...
By integrating aspects of transformational leadership into his leadership, Alonso would have inspired his crew to follow him while also becoming leaders by themselves. However, this could have only been made possible if his thoughts, feelings, and a Continue Reading...
Leadership, Team Building, And Communication Leadership, Communication and Team Building Examine traditional, contemporary, and emerging leadership theories and interpersonal forms of power. Create a profile of the ideal leader for the company you Continue Reading...
Leadership Vision Over the last several years, a wide variety of organizations have been addressing challenges associated with effective leadership. This is because most firms have traditionally created strategies behind closed doors and then introd Continue Reading...
However, the sum total of the organization's output extends beyond the realm of the quantifiable. Qualitative measures also exist, and they can impact on the quality of the organization's output as well. It can be argued that even qualitative output Continue Reading...
Project Management February J. 2014 A project is a temporary group of activity designed to produce unique products and services or results. Typically, a project has a defined beginning and end and therefore having defined scope and resources. (Pier Continue Reading...
Starting with the pre-contractual phase, which was for the most part skipped as the EDS teams focused primarily on technologies first, the project lacked the necessary foundation to succeed from a planning standpoint. Focusing on the pre-contractual Continue Reading...
To date, little research exists on the actual costs and benefits of project management. Much of the information that exists is a product of advertising materials distributed through the project management firms. Little unbiased information regardin Continue Reading...
Specifically, situational leadership allows managers to be autocratic when the situation requires it, while it also supports them in being democratic, when the situation requires it. This materializes in high levels of effectiveness. Erven argues: " Continue Reading...
Letter of Transmittal This report is concerned with the transition of leadership on a crucial project that requires a seamless transition due to the importance of the project to the company and the significance of the team already in place. Due to Continue Reading...
Organizational Behavior The author of this report has been asked to review the case study that focuses on the NASA Odyssey Spec Analyzer. The project has been riddled with schedule slippage, cost overruns and low overall quality. However, a read of Continue Reading...
Leaders are an important aspect to management and business. Leaders are what provide the basis from which subordinates follow. When a leader behaves in a way that provides a bad example to a subordinate or creates a chaotic environment, subordinates Continue Reading...
Leadership Models LITERATURE REVIEW OF SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP Situational leadership is a leadership paradigm proposed by Hersey and Blanchard as an alternative to the simplistic trait theories of leadership in vogue at the time. The main feature o Continue Reading...
Leadership My organization is Miami-Dade Transit, for which I am a bus operator. The Transit system is an independent operating entity within the government of Miami-Dade County. Leadership of this company is typically appointed, and this was the ca Continue Reading...
Leadership On the surface, Military Leadership and Virtual Leadership seem like polar opposites. Military leadership is old, entrenched, and traditional with little flexibility in terms of normative behavior. On the other hand, virtual leadership is Continue Reading...
Leadership SME Leadership Strategy from the Top Down: Lessons from the Boardroom in Small and Medium Enterprises Leadership and management theories and strategies have proliferated at a rapid rate in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as org Continue Reading...
Leadership Sustainability in Leadership Current global occurrences have posed a great challenge to the continued existence of living things on earth. At this stage in the history of man, humanity is struggling with a lot of challenges; and these ch Continue Reading...
e. leadership (Pruyne, 2001, p. 6), but also that "determining how to abstract a set of leadership concepts that apply across contexts without sacrificing an understanding of how the conditions and qualities involved in leadership vary among those sa Continue Reading...
Their interaction is sporadic at best and most of them have teamed up against Carly because her attitude doesn't befit her role as the project leader. People listen to the project leader only when he/she can command respect through exemplary behavio Continue Reading...
Most conclusions on this approach were vague or indecisive in terms of social, psychological or mental significance (Rice, 1978, 1981; Graen et al., 1972; Ashour, 1973). Furthermore, over the years, many scholars have come to the realization that l Continue Reading...
Leadership Self-Assessment Analysis In the wake of the corporal scandals of Enron and the Arthur Anderson Company, there have been increased calls for strong ethical leadership. Leadership had always been regarded as a key factor in ensuring the eff Continue Reading...
e. child care and health insurance). As, they can negotiate lower group rates for: the company and offer them as part of the total compensation package that everyone is receiving. (Northouse, 2010, pp. 89 -- 93) Was Burton a charismatic leader in th Continue Reading...
Leadership Behavior for Effective Decision Making Effective decision making in the competitive business environment is closely linked with leadership skills. Managing change in existing organizations can often be extremely difficult, as it requires Continue Reading...
Leadership For any project, the first step is to inspire people to want to work on the project. There are few more powerful motivators than inspiration. Inspiration breeds creativity, innovation, hard work, determination and other attributes that co Continue Reading...
49). That goes for leaders in the learning community as well. Thessin asserts that while it is important to teach students to solve problems, there is a lack of focus on another important, related goal: "the need for teachers to learn to do the same Continue Reading...
Whether involvement is through full time employment or volunteer service, the challenges of today's fire service demand commitment to training, education, experience and self-development. One's professional development is a journey, not a destinatio Continue Reading...
Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) The Leadership Practices Inventory relies on Kouzes and Posner's work and on what they called The Five Practices, that is challenging the process, inspiring a shared vision, enabling others to act modeling the wa Continue Reading...
Leadership Development Plan Creating, staffing and managing a virtual team to results presents a very unique set of challenges both form a logistics and leadership standpoint. Creating a state-of-the-art new packaging product that is inexpensive to Continue Reading...
Leadership Qualifications in the Workplace Quintessential Leader Proposed Leadership Model For eras there have been people and leaders have discussed what the qualifications that make a great leader are. Leadership travels all the way back to the Continue Reading...
" This sometimes leads to a lack of improvement through the use of new ideas, thus having an overall negative effect on the department's efficiency. When looking at Mr. Shaiban through the six characteristics of a leader in which Wren identifies, it Continue Reading...
Leadership At the core of leadership is the interaction between the leader and the follower. Much of leadership theory can be understood in terms of how leaders and followers interact and what the underlying assumptions are with respect to the roles Continue Reading...
This is another circumstance, however, that is likely to limit the use of this text in management courses, which is truly a disservice to American industry and consumers. It is ironic that in living up to the principles of clarity and directness tha Continue Reading...
Leadership Development The famous Peter Drucker was very prescient when he said that managers do things right and leaders do the right things. Leadership development is being able to know better and better with time what things should be done and wh Continue Reading...
Leadership in Public Sector There has been a declining public sector performance and a constant stream of complains from the general public. Over the years, there have been attempts to restructure the public sector in a bid to improve the performanc Continue Reading...
This theory also suits me well as I believe that the greater the effort and intensity, the higher the probabili8ty of attaining ones' objectives. There is also the element of continual learning, both at work and school to interpret and when applicab Continue Reading...
Anyone can be a manager. That is, anyone can learn to do the daily paperwork and routines necessary to function. However, leadership implies something completely different. Leadership requires self-reflection and self-assessment on a daily basis. Le Continue Reading...
