...Week 3 LEADERSHIP This third lecture focuses on the discussion if leadership is one of the most important factors for high performing organisations. The different (hierarchical) levels of leadership, different styles of leadership, and the effectiveness of these styles will be addressed. Furthermore, the professional background of leadership will be discussed. Burke This article focuses on the relationship between specific leader behaviours and team performance outcomes. Team leadership Functional approach: leaders main job is to do whatever is not being adequately handled for group needs. Within this approach the leader is effective to the degree that he/she ensures that all functions critical to task and team maintenance are completed. Team leadership = dynamic process of social problem solving through generic responses, categorized as (Fleischman): 1. Information search and structuring (to inform leader, used to decide upon course of action during 2.) 2. Information use in problem solving 3. Managing personnel resources 4. Managing material resources Hackman: not on leadership functions, but on identifying condition that leaders can create to facilitate team effectiveness. * teams must be real (team task, boundaries, specified authority) * have compelling direction (challenging, clear and consequential) gained from first two leadership functions above * an enabling structure (core conditions) Leaders manage personnel resources...
Words: 1475 - Pages: 6
...Financial and Managerial Accounting Prof. dr. Véronique Weets Assistant Filip Sans Master of Management Your name: Your marks:/20 Written Exam /300 Part 1: Theory & Understanding /150 Open Questions /50 Solve the following questions. Do not use more than the allowed space. Write legibly. Note that marks will be subtracted for irrelevant information and incorrect information. Major mistakes can lead to zero points on the question even if there is also correct information included in the answer. Correct answer 10 points Total questions 5 questions Total maximum 50 points Give the sequence that correctly summarizes the accounting process. Explain how the value of the account “inventory” is determined? What accounting principle leads to the technique of depreciating property, plant and equipment? What are equivalent units and when/why do we use equivalent units ? What is a CVP graph ? Draw one and indicate the most important points. True/False /50 Indicate whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). Correct answer 5 points Incorrect answer -5 points No answer ...
Words: 2039 - Pages: 9
...within the jobs, the communication within the management team and the organizational pressure of being as efficient and effective as possible. These constraints together formed the barriers, which has a negative effect on the meaning of work. These findings were then discussed and concluded. Implications of the findings (e.g. limited amount of data) for both theory and practice are discussed. The area around Human Resource Management (HRM) is rapidly changing. There are changes from the perspective of the people and from the perspective of the organization. This has led to several changes in employees’ career patterns. The questions that derive from these movements are amongst others what these career patterns mean for organizations and how organizations can benefit from employees’ self-managed career...
Words: 28418 - Pages: 114
...Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty among Grocery Shoppers a research done in The Netherlands [pic] ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM Faculty of Economic Science Author: Stephan (S.A.) de Jong Supervisor: Drs. Jordana Liberali Exam number: 311458 E-mail address: 311458sj@student.eur.nl / s.a.jong@hotmail.com Course : Economics and Business Economics (Marketing) Thesis: Master thesis Date: August 11, 2011 Preface This master thesis is considered as the final exam before graduating in a Master of Economic Science. With this last piece of work I will complete my study Economics and Business Economics, specialized in Marketing at the Economic Faculty at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. The topic of this thesis is customer satisfaction and customer loyalty among grocery shoppers in the Netherlands. The focus of this research will be on the region ‘Het Westland’, a district in the southwest of the Netherlands. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty and the main drivers of those two. The research took me about seven months and it was very interesting to see the different aspects of doing a research like this. I wish to pay special thanks to Drs. Jordana Liberali, my supervisor at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, for advising, supporting and providing me with useful information but also criticism...
Words: 17703 - Pages: 71
...Feminism in Multicultural Societies An analysis of Dutch Multicultural and Postsecular Developments and their Implications for Feminist Debates Eva Midden A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment for the requirements of the degree of PhD at the University of Central Lancashire May 2010 Student Declaration Concurrent registration for two or more academic awards I declare that while registered as a candidate for the research degree, I have not been registered candidate or enrolled student for another award of the University or other academic or professional institution Material submitted for another award I declare that no material contained in the thesis has been used in any other submission for an academic award and is solely my own work Signature of Candidate Type of Award School ___PhD_________________________________ ___Centre for Professional Ethics___________ 1 Abstract It was long assumed that both multiculturalism and feminism are connected to progressive movements and hence have comparable and compatible goals. However, both in academia and in popular media the critique on multiculturalism has grown and is often accompanied with arguments related to gender equality and/or feminism. According to political scientist Susan Moller Okin for example there are fundamental conflicts between our commitment to gender equality and the desire to respect the customs of minority cultures or religions. If we agree that women...
Words: 97145 - Pages: 389
...This page intentionally left blank The Study of Language This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Yule presents information in short, bite-sized sections, introducing the major concepts in language study – from how children learn language to why men and women speak differently, through all the key elements of language. This fourth edition has been revised and updated with twenty new sections, covering new accounts of language origins, the key properties of language, text messaging, kinship terms and more than twenty new word etymologies. To increase student engagement with the text, Yule has also included more than fifty new tasks, including thirty involving data analysis, enabling students to apply what they have learned. The online study guide offers students further resources when working on the tasks, while encouraging lively and proactive learning. This is the most fundamental and easy-to-use introduction to the study of language. George Yule has taught Linguistics at the Universities of Edinburgh, Hawai’i, Louisiana State and Minnesota. He is the author of a number of books, including Discourse Analysis (with Gillian Brown, 1983) and Pragmatics (1996). “A genuinely introductory linguistics text, well suited for undergraduates who have little prior experience thinking descriptively about language. Yule’s crisp and thought-provoking presentation of key issues works...
Words: 114096 - Pages: 457