...Essay on Key Topic on Organizational Behavior MBA 545 People and Systemructor Essay on Key Topic on Organizational Behavior November 11, 2010 The topic I am going to analyze in my Essay on Key Topic on Organizational Behavior assignment is Leadership. Starting with its definition, leadership is the organization of a group of people, so as to achieve a number of specific goals that the group and mostly the leader set. More specifically, a leader is considered to be somebody, who creates and communicates a vision, provides his “followers” with guidance and motivation, in order to achieve certain targets, influences others through his use of power, establishes and maintains group culture, clarifies roles and empowers the members of his group, and of course, has the ability to make tough decisions with limited information. Being a leader is totally different comparing to being a manager of a group of people. Being a leader, as already mentioned, means giving motivation, influencing and changing the behavior of people, when necessary, inspiring and creating a vision for the group of people...
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...Organisations Management Essay Leadership is considered to be the key enabler of organisational performance and competitive advantage by the organisations these days (Burgoyne, 2008). The job of a leader is to lead his/her team to achieve the goal set by the organisation. James MacGregor Burns argues that leadership is one phenomenon on earth that is most observed and least understood (Paul, 2002). The views about a leader and the definition of leadership vary among different people. “Daniel Goleman (2000) says that an effective leader sets strategy, creates a mission, motivates his followers and finally builds a culture in the organisation. Ken Wilber argues that an integral leader is a man or woman who supports people aspiring to move forward. They have to make their own integral map that covers all the area that humans have to deal with” (Volckmann, 2005). The concepts of leadership have been developed years ago though the word is reported to have appeared in English language recently. “An effective business leader is one who is well informed of the latest research which impacts upon leadership and who is also capable of applying this to their own organisation with in an ethical framework”. I personally agree with this statement as it is important for the leader to move along with the changing organisational conditions. He should be updated with the latest trends in the organisation in order to effectively lead his followers. Further part of the essay will explore the research...
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...ASIA PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN COLLABORATION WITH STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY UK BA (Hons) in Business Management [pic] [pic] Individual Assignment “Critically evaluating the effectiveness of women leadership in business organizations” (BSB10177-2 CR - CRITICAL REASONING) Prepared By: Charya De Alwis [CB004491] [IF1371BM] Date of Submission 26th May Instructor Mr. Anthony Marius Submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Business Management Word count for Essay: [Word Count] Word count for PDP: [Word Count] INCOURSE ASSESSMENT SHEET [pic] BSB10177-2 Critical Reasoning Individual Essay | | Assessment Criteria |Allotted Marks % |Earned Marks % | |C1 |Contents : (Currency, relevance and attention to details) |20 | | |C2 |Validity : (Consistency, strength of the arguments and validity of the reasoning) |25 | | |C3 |Suitable Conclusions drawn |10 | | |C4 |Formatting (language, report format) |5 ...
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...REGENT UNIVERSITY The Understanding and Practice of ServantLeadership Servant Leadership Research Roundtable – August 2005 Larry C. Spears President & CEO The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The best test is: do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? —Robert K. Greenleaf The mightiest of rivers are first fed by many small trickles of water, and an apt way of conveying my belief that the growing number of individuals and organizations practicing servant-leadership has increased from a trickle to a river. Servant-leadership is also an expanding river, and one which carries with it a deep current of meaning and passion. The servant-leader concept continues to grow in its influence and impact. In fact, we have witnessed an unparalleled explosion of interest and practice of servant-leadership in the past fifteen years. In many ways, it can truly be said that the times are only now beginning to catch up with Robert Greenleaf’s visionary call to servant-leadership. The idea of servant-leadership, now in its fourth decade as a concept bearing that name, continues to create a quiet revolution in workplaces around the world. This article is intended to provide a broad overview of the growing influence this inspiring...
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...My Personal Why A Goals Essay April 2012 There are many aspects of management. It consists of more than reading and interpreting reports. It is also about caring and respecting your employees. One statement stands out to me throughout all of my management classes and courses I have taken throughout my career: people do not leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses. My personal goal as a member of management has been to never become so consumed in moving results that I lose focus on the very people I am counting on to move those results. Associates want to know and feel that their managers care about them. The Bible teaches us this about love: "It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs." (1 Corinthians 13:5 NIV) A manager should always strive to uphold these standards. It is essential that each associate is treated equally and respectfully. Supervision is not only about providing leadership, guidance and instruction. It is also about caring and nurturing. And it is about setting proper examples as "bad company corrupts good character." (1 Corinthians 15:33 NIV) Integrating my Christian faith in the workplace aids me in ensuring that all of my subordinates receive the same unbiased treatment they deserve and credit they have earned. Ecclesiastes 9:10 NIV tells me "whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might" essentially “do my job to the best of my ability.” In order to be successful and...
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...corporate wrongdoing, ethical leadership is the right focus to pursue as a worthwhile business strategy. It can safeguard your organization from making headlines for all the wrong reasons. A leadership team may be sincerely committed to fostering an ethics based culture. But awareness alone will not be sufficient to instill ethical behavior and practices across the organization. It requires consistent and conscious effort to impede an ethical perspective into day to day leadership and management behaviors. This essay presents a global perspective on a particular tribe of the human race. The question addressed is that of leadership. I have pondered on the paucity of quality leadership in the world at the present time. From reflections on different traditions, I came to believe that the answer was simple and ancient, yet perhaps more radical than old fashioned. Without ethics, rooted in a spiritual practice that entails meditation, there is no possibility of a leadership emerging that would rest on principles of integrity, compassion and awareness. The lack of leadership, truth and integrity in public life exist simply because the world is ignorant of its true nature. As ignorance can be remedied through education. I believe that people everywhere are searching, consciously or unconsciously , to experience this and to instinctively know that it is where their happiness lies. The striving is instructive, because it reveals that humanity's true nature is that of truth, integrity and...
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...Palshikar 1 Charismatic Leadership Charismatic Leadership Ketan Palshikar Abstract This essay gives an overview of various leadership types and focuses on the charismatic leadership. It attempts to explain the charismatic leadership process with an example of Mahatma Gandhi as a charismatic leader. It goes further and explores the attributes that a charismatic leader possesses. The essay also tries to find out various effects of charismatic leadership on the organization. While mentioning the positive effects of the charismatic leadership, it also investigates the “dark” side of the charismatic leadership. After reading the essay the readers are expected to have gained enough familiarity with this kind of leadership and at the end of the essay I would like to put forth a couple of questions regarding charismatic leadership which have remained unanswered after reading the material I have cited. Introduction Any type of organization runs successfully when it is piloted by a skillful and influential leader. While leaders motivate their followers, it is not the only thing leaders can do. A good leader can structure the organization in the way he wants. He represents the culture of the organization and most importantly, it has been observed that effective leaders posses a capacity to increase the productivity of the organization. Various scholars categorize leadership styles in a different way. Lewin (1939) classifies leadership styles in three categories: Autocratic Leadership...
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...2nd Term Anticipated Graduation: March 2016 Major Course Work: Computer Programming I & II, Object Oriented Programming, Web Development, Network Management System, Database Management System I & II, Professional Ethics for IT, Emerging Computer Technologies, Distributed Systems, Systems Analysis and Design, Project Management, Software Engineering 2008 – 2012 STO. DOMINGO NATIONAL TRADE SCHOOL Vocational Course: Drafting Technology High School Diploma, March 2012. Honorable Mention. GPA: 91.22 CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 2014 – 2015 Governor, Polymath Club SEMINARS ATTENDED September 2015 13TH PHILIPPINE YOUTH CONGRESS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Youth for Information Technology, SMX Convention Center, Pasay City September 2015 SAITE 2015 TORO.io Hackathon (Day 2) Competitor PSITE Region III, Wesleyan University, Cabanatuan City February 2015 1st ISRCCS & SCITE 2015 PSITE & SSITE, AUF Sports and Cultural Center, Angeles City, Pampanga September 2014 SAITE 2014 Business Pitching Contest Participant PSITE Region III, Balanga City, Bataan July 2014 ISANTUGON: MORE THAN THE CALL, IT’S THE ANSWER Ayala Young Leaders Alumni Association, Inc. - Central Luzon, Ramon Magsaysay Technological University, Iba, Zambales February 2014 CAREER ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM Guidance Office,...
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...Resilience Today, everyone have a strongly willing to be a successful person no matter in which area such as business, communities, study and family life. Although people can find lots of method to achieve the goal, there still are some characters should be aware and conscious cultivation if people want to better integrate with varied of fields. Resilience as a vital role to play in our life and it consist with different kinds of factors. In this essay, it will divide into three parts to discuss four important characters of resilience, including hardiness, adaptability, recovery and flexibility. Besides, in these four parts, it will also present these components how positive connect with communities, organizations, business or individual life. Hardiness Winston Churchill said that “success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” It is a good explain and describe for the word, hardiness. Maddi (2013, p. 7) states hardiness can be as a channel to resilience when face the stress and resilience always as a component to keep individual performance and health no matter in psychological or physiological when they under the pressure environment. It is clear that hardiness has strongly connection with resilience and it is an important factor in our life. White, Absher & Huggins point out hardiness can help people to deal with the transforms from circumstance with high stressful level into less-stressful life events like activity of organization and business...
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...Faculty Scholarship at UF Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of UF Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact outler@law.ufl.edu. LEADERSHIP AND FOLLOWERSHIP Robert H. Jerry, II* "[B]etter followers beget better leaders." I been fond of a set of expressions HROUGH use to underscore the importance of an idea or a cause I sometimes the years, I have believe important and worthy of personal or institutional investment, or both. The expressions fit together like this: our society has a particular problem that needs attention; our colleges and universities, being institutions broadly representative of our society, also have this problem (as we should expect): we need to work on this problem in our colleges and universities; if we cannot solve this problem in our institutions of higher learning, then I have little hope that our society will be able to solve it: our law school needs to set an example for the rest of the university as to how we can work together to solve the problem. When I articulate this message in a speech, conversation, essay, or dean's column, my goal is invariably to persuade the listeners or readers to action-not just to join me in supporting a cause. but to join together to...
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...countries take to develop and sustain cordial relations in the twenty-first century? Introduction “Indo-Pak rivalry is the uncompromising struggle of two ways of life, two concepts of political organisation, two conflicting ideological foundations, two scales of values, and two spiritual attitudes that find themselves locked in deadly conflict, a conflict in which Kashmir has become both symbol and battleground, making the Indo-Pak rivalry an enduring one (Ashok 2012, 1)”. This essay will argue that the key reasons underlying the continued hostility in Indo-Pak relations are due to an antithetical idea of state identity. This essay will first outline the origins of the Indo-Pak conflict in order to give historical context to the conflict. It will be argued that the predisposing conditions for the conflict are a fundamental ideological difference in state construction which is closely linked to the second condition being the irredentist/anti-irredentist relationship between India and Pakistan. This essay will firstly consider the differences in state identity by outlining the fundamentals of Indo-Pak state construction with particular focus on why India and Pakistan feel their ideological existence is threatened by the other. Subsequently, the irredentist/anti-irredentist relationship will be outlined and considered in the context of the enduring dispute over Kashmir. Following this, a potential resolution to this conflict being bilateral diplomacy will be critically evaluated in...
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...ASSESSMENT 1 SUMMARY The discourse of Entrepreneurship within Middle East Countries is a primary field of interest that has received the attention of many authors and academic experts during recent times. The existing Body of Law on a comprehensive basis has adequately analyzed the way in which the scientific and economical advancements, have taken place in the Middle East area. In this point of view, late proofs have broadly confirm how despite the fact that Saudi Arabia is now considered as a growing economy which is trying to diversify its exports, mainly based on oil and natural gas, by framing and revising its legal and regulatory environment in order to foster entrepreneurship activities and the private sector interest. It leads to growing concern about the role of women in the economic environment, with legal and ethical consideration of the women’s role in the existing socio-cultural make-up of the country. The way in which countries like Saudi Arabia, have developed a domestic organized economy that is based on entrepreneurship is a hypothesis that has been widely tested and cited within the existing body of Literature. Although many academic experts believe that Middle East countries still retain a promising potential for growth (Shachmurove, 2004), major obstacles in terms of detrimental factors such as corruption, unclear regulations and reliance on oil have also recognized. Women are therefore believed to play a primary role in the entrepreneurial...
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...Running Head: MID-TERM ESSAY: IKEA CASE STUDY 1 Mid-Term Essay: IKEA Case Study Emily Shinkle Indiana Wesleyan University Business, Analysis and Technology ADM-508 Rodney Swope July 29, 2012 Mid-Term Essay: IKEA Case Study All companies share three characteristics – goals, people, and structure (Robbins, Decenzo, & Coulter, 2011). IKEA, a global furniture company, exemplifies these characteristics in an excellent way. Mikael Ohisson (2011), President and CEO, says, “We’re a values-driven company on a never ending journey to be the leader in life at home”(www.ikea.com) Mikael and his team have proved this truly is their goal by setting a great example when it comes to other topics within business such as social responsibility, decision making, and strategic planning. IKEA is considered a multinational corporation (MNC), which simply means is a consumer had four homes in four different countries they could all be furnished from ceiling to floor in IKEA because this company sells their products in many different places (Robbins et al., 2011). The Swedish-based company currently has 287 stores in 26 countries and maintains 1,018 suppliers in 53 countries (www.ikea.com). The simple and inexpensive furnishings are popular in many different social and cultural settings, giving IKEA a well-rounded approach at business around the globe. It was not until 1994 that IKEA decided to expand to China. One reason for the expansion was because China...
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...law enforcement, along with the companies, to monitor these agents. Annotated Bibliography Dulek, R., Motes, W., & Hilton, C. (1997), Executive Perceptions of Superior and Subordinate Information Control: Practice versus Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics Vol. 16, pgs.1175-1184 This entry examines the ethical practices of leaders in a business and their employees involving information control within a business. Specifically it examines whether these executives know if control is being performed and if they deem it ethical. The statement “…executives are generally drawn to those command activities they deem to be "proper and right." but shy away from those that are iniquitous.” R. Dulek has authored six books and publishes more than forty journal articles. He is currently a professor at John R. Miller School of Business at the University of Alabama. W. Motes is a Marketing professor at the same university and has had articles appear in twelve business journals. C. Hilton is an Associate Professor of Management at the same university and has been published in five...
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