...WORST LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE Worst Leadership Experience Worst Leadership Experience Introduction Leadership as a term coins different concepts in only one word. It not only defines the personality trait of a person, but it also defines the need and role of different approaches to get things done in an effective manner by leading a group of people. A strong leadership mechanism involves set of competencies to influence and drive the actions of people especially when working in a group or as a team leader. Leadership enables to lead team while maintaining their enthusiasm and motivation continuously for the accomplishment of goals and objectives. In this paper, I will discuss my worst ever Leadership Experience. A strong Leader must be able to understand the problems of the team and solve their issue. The leader must lead from the front and act as a role model for others. He must have the ability to get the task done from the team. I have been working for a private bank for more than three years. I was assigned the task of leading a team, who will be developing new portfolios for consumer financing. In this report, I will discuss my experience which was a very bad one. Objective and Purpose of Experience The purpose of this project was to enhance the customer base by developing new portfolios and products that attract customers and increase the profitability of the bank. Discussion Leadership is a quality that lifts up the personality of the people. It...
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...Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION 7 2.0 WHAT IS LEADERSHIP AND CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER? 7 2.1 WHAT IS LEADERSHIP? 7 3.0 LEADERS IN REVIEW: WHO IS MORE EFFECTIVE LEADER? 9 3.1 BIOGRAPHY - RICHARD BRANSON & VIJAY MALLYA 9 3.2 WHO IS THE MORE EFFECTIVE LEADER? 10 4.0 CONCLUSION 14 5.0 REFERENCE 15 1.0 INTRODUCTION The objective of this research paper is to analyse the differences between the leadership qualities of Richard Branson and Vijay Mallya and come to the conclusion as to who is more effective leader. The paper first defines the leadership and then briefly discusses the concepts associated with the leadership. It then presents two leaders with some brief biographies, characteristics and their contribution to their individual company. It would then conclude who is the more effective leader by providing with some aspects of leadership and leadership framework. 2.0 WHAT IS LEADERSHIP AND CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER? 2.1 WHAT IS LEADERSHIP? Leadership is an interesting and widely discussed subject and has been described by James MacGregor Burns (1978) as “one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on Earth”. Northouse (2010) defines leadership being a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal. The leadership definition that I favour and think is more suited to the 21st century is “The process by which an agent induces a subordinate to behave in a desired manner”...
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... thousands of businesses were thrown into extinction. Many people has questioned the ethical decisions and core value system that BP used to cut corners with the accident; namely, the race to maximize profits at all costs. We are all aware that one of the main causes that let to the disaster were the result of bad decisions, in which a less expensive option (whether to run a test or use a particular kind casing pipe, for example) would save lives. There has been “zero dollars spent on research concerning how to handle oil spills for off-shore drilling by BP despite the company's NET profits - above and beyond all salaries, bonuses, or overhead costs- of more than $59 BILLION” ("The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC, aired at 7 p.m. EST on June 28, Monday). The paperwork submitted to the U.S. Minerals Management Services (MMS) by BP in 2008 was 582 pages long, supposedly covering all of BP's operations in the Gulf of Mexico. However, they omitted their ability to deal with oil spills in a worst-case scenario just to get their permits for drilling....
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...Sunni and Sh’ia: The Branches of Islam By Kendra Craig March 5, 2010 Strayer University Abstract The paper is focused on Sunni and Sh’ia, which are two branches of Islam. The paper will compare the different religious belief that is practiced throughout Islam. It will also show the laws and the cultures of each religious branch. The paper will show the major dispute that caused separation of these religions in Islam. Sunni and Sh’ia Sunni and Sh’ia are two of the most dominate cultures in Islam. In my research, I learned that these two branches were among the worst enemies of the Islamic culture. In this paper I will show the differences in the belief of each religious group. I will also show the division within the Islamic community between these groups. Sunni Muslims are individuals that were firm believers in the prophet Muhammad. The words that were spoken through Muhammad influenced and provided them with strong religious belief. Sunni means “customary practices” (Macmillan Reference USA 2001-2006) which referred to the teaching and preaching of Muhammad. The Sh’ia Muslims are individuals that believe that the political leader position should have gone to Ali (Penay). Sh’ia means “group” or faction”. After the death of Muhammad is when things began to turn for the worst between these communities. The main belief of the Sunni Muslims was those that came after Muhammad were true believers of Muhammad teachings. This allowed them to become comfortable with...
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...Full Site Copyright © 2014 Business Insider, Inc. All rights reserved. VIEW Business Insider What you need to know. On your iPhone. FREE - On the App Store. Search Business Insider Search The Illustrated Guide To A Ph.D. Matt Might, Matt.Might.Net Mar. 16, 2012, 2:43 PM 840,451 31 Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the illustrated guide to a Ph.D. Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge: By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little: By the time you finish high school, you know a bit more: With a bachelor's degree, you gain a specialty: A master's degree deepens that specialty: Reading research papers takes you to the edge of human knowledge: Once you're at the boundary, you focus: You push at the boundary for a few years: Until one day, the boundary gives way: And, that dent you've made is called a Ph.D.: Of course, the world looks different to you now: So, don't forget the bigger picture: Keep pushing. The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial 2.5 License. This post originally appeared at Matt Might's Blog. NOW WATCH: 7 Optical Illusions That Will Make You Look Twice This article originally appeared at Matt.Might.Net. Copyright 2014....
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...Application Paper 1 Select one of the eight leaders discussed in the Wills' text in Chapters 1 through 8 and discuss why a consideration of his or her leadership at a former point in time is important to an understanding of leadership today. Note: This activity will require that you read about the leader in additional sources. Be sure to properly document any additional sources you use. In selecting a leader within the first module, I chose the person who I knew of, yet I knew very little about in Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). In our readings, and through further research it is clear that through his leadership, FDR's legacy strives in our world today. Many leaders throughout history have been known to face their share of adversity. A common theme in our readings, whether it be social barriers, disputes, or personal challenges, one common attribute among the leaders in our readings is their ability to overcome adversity, and lead their followers to a better state. It can be interpreted that FDR's trials and tribulations with polio may have been a defining moment in his life and political career. It is interesting to note that prior to his health battle with polio, FDR had been known as "too anxious to please", a "sissy" who had lived a sheltered life and seemed to lack self-confidence (Wills, 1994). Overcoming polio, FDR seems to seize an opportunity to take control of his life by learning to walk again, and instilling a calm confidence in his character that he...
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...Wal-Mart Unethical Business Practices - Business Research Paper Wal-Mart was founded by Sam Walton where it is the place that a lot of people usually do their shopping for the low prices and the variety of products. Walton was started his own company and made it into the leader in discount retailing with an innovative vision, and yet it’s the most successful entrepreneur in hypermarket industry. In fact, Wal-Mart is pointed to be the biggest company in the U.S. and it has stores worldwide. Recent research on PBS (PBS, n.d.) has shown Wal-Mart employ more people than any other company in the United States outside of the Federal government; so far the majority of its employees with children live below the poverty line. In addition, Wal-Mart likes to portray itself as a seller of U.S. manufactured goods. However, the company has products on its shelves made in foreign countries and at questionable workshops. In consequence, Wal-Mart is facing a large amount of argument for unethical business practices. Some of these unethical business practices include the following. Discriminating Wal-Mart has been accused of discriminating against women. Women had been avoided training and promotion opportunities which are normally offered to men. Moreover, women are underpaid. Specifically, men wages are paid more than women wages and the wages gap between men and women are huge. (now.org, 2011) In fact, there are small amount of those women are managers even though there are...
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...Institute of Corporate Directors Management white paper (Are you sure of your leadership) Executive Summary This paper provides managers and leaders with the necessary information to implement a cure for poor organizational performance and its negative workplace politics. The paper addresses the following subject areas: 1. Leadership and Performance; 2. Strategic Alignment; 3. Performance Diagnoses Checklist; 4. Bad Politics and Performance Risks; 5. Treatment Challenges; 6. Best Practices for Curing Bad Politics 1. Leadership and Performance The subject of leadership has been greatly covered by scholars, academicians and consultants, yet building high-performance teams remains elusive to most companies. Leadership is the most important competitive advantage of a company, not technology, finance, operations or anything else. Leadership formulates the company's business strategy and builds its resources, including its people, finances and operations. The leadership team is the most important asset of the company and can be its worst liability. A failed business is the result of poor performance. Poor performance is the result of an incompetent or dysfunctional leadership team. To paraphrase Tolstoy, All successful companies are successful for different reasons, but dysfunctional companies are dysfunctional in the same way. In my experience, the main reason for poor organizational performance is not the lack of business knowledge, but rather negative internal ...
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...General Writing resources and Requirements NOTE: Please use this as reference for each writing assignment! Your grade may be adversely affected if you do not follow all of these requirements. Email or call your instructor if you have questions. The required literary essays for this course demand careful planning, drafting, revising/editing, and correct documentation. The following resources and requirements provide instruction on writing, research, and avoiding plagiarism. Carefully review them before writing your literary essays. Plagiarism Plagiarism encompasses more than the use of printed sources without giving proper credit. It means handing in writing in the name of one person that another person has composed, revised, edited, or proofread without the instructor's approval. Accordingly, the following guidelines are set down, and you must study and understand them from the outset. The instructor will assume, since this issue is clearly discussed, that you will be responsible for understanding and applying it. Any fact that is not common knowledge, any idea, phrase, or paraphrase that is taken from a printed source, from a lecture, sermon, or radio broadcast must be documented. Any work submitted in English 102 will be understood to be the work of the student submitting it and his work alone. Taking credit for someone else's proofreading ability, suggestions, ideas, or words is plagiarism. An exception to this definition is group work assigned and directed...
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...in all areas but have been given few opportunities to take leadership roles in healthcare organizations. This paper explores some of the reasons why women are circumvented in leadership roles and how women can be better prepared to lead in their organizations. The research concluded that women are effective leaders in comparison to their male counter parts. Leadership is an important concept in healthcare. It can simply be acknowledged as the ability to achieve a goal by using imagination, skill, relevant theory, and concepts that are supposed to lead an organization to success. The research conducted for this paper clearly demonstrates that women are an integral part of the ever changing healthcare domain as it relates to leadership. The need for gender diversity in leadership positions is critical for many organizations, especially in healthcare (Virick & Greer, 2012). Despite the fact that leadership is a complex social role, that arises from the actions to effect others in their roles, women can carry out such duties in the same manner, or even better than their male counterparts. (Fealy, McNamara, Casey, Geraghty, Butler, Halligan & Johnson, 2011). Historically, women have been underrepresented in leadership roles in all aspect of healthcare. As the trend of delivering care continues to change in the 21st century, the need for more women leaders cannot be ignored. Women are the majority in providing healthcare services (Kutscher, Landen, & Zigmond, 2013)...
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...National pride in jeopardy: America dethroned Justine Leonard English 102 Derek Blemberg April 23rd, 2013 “The first step in solving any problem is recognizing that there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore” (Sorkin, 2012). As Americans we like to think, and in fact for decades have also been misleading others to believe, that we are the best at just about everything. Sadly, that hasn’t been true for quite some time. These troubled times are due to bias voters and lack of real leadership in presidential candidates. Despite the idealization of America, it is no longer the greatest country in the world; the U.S used to be known as the land of opportunities, freedom, diversity and equality but today we are being defined by such things as political parties that are tearing us far from being a united nation. There is nothing to prove we deserve the gold medal. We claim to be the land of the free but we actually rank seventh in that category beat by other nations like Japan and Belguim. We claim to be a nation of equality and opportunities, but in reality we sit thirty-ninth in income inequality and second in child poverty. As American citizens we are full of pride and take joy in our country. Likewise, people from all around the world desire to live here too. We all wish to experience “the good life,” but the truth is that the U.S. is eleventh on happiness scale. In the HBO drama The Newsroom, the lead character Will McAvoy, states that...
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...Weeding good strategy?” Dilip Thosar Paper for The International Research Conference on HRM 25-26 August 2012 at MIT College of Management, Pune Is Post-Appraisal Weeding good strategy? Dilip Thosar Fellow Student, AHRD (Academy of Human Resources Development), Ahmedabad. ABSTRACT Many progressive Indian organizations are seen to annually lead a practice of weeding out their lowest-performing manpower, with the strategic intent of increasing their performance capability and competence. The genesis of this practice lies in the “20-70-10 principle” which states that the top 20% of workforce is productive, 70% work adequately and the remaining bottom 10% do not deliver and should be fired. During the annual appraisal, the head of every business team within the organization is asked to classify his/her team-members into top, medium and bottom performers. Those in the bottom bucket are asked to resign. This reportedly creates tremendous dissonance and unhappiness across the organization. There seems to be no evidence of the expected theoretical result of a continuously improving highperforming business unit. Even short-run competence is not reported to increase perceptibly. Notable is the expensive attrition and erosion of precious employee-engagement among residuals, with consequent burn-outs and reduced productivity. The significant negative outcomes of this practice seem to outweigh any positive potential. Literature studied and industry leaders decry it as inappropriate. Yet, paradoxically...
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...SYNOPSIS COMPARISON OF FACILITIES AND BENEFITS GIVEN TO JOURNALISTS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND THE WAGE AWARD ISSUE OF DAILY THE NEWS Submitted by: ABC Regd # 07PMS0433 Roll #X335046 Address: MBA (COL) Department of Business Administration, Table of contents CHAPTER: 1 3 1.1. Introduction: 3 1.2. Need for Study 4 1.3. Broad Problem area: 6 1.4. Problem Statement: 6 1.5. Research Objectives: 6 1.6. Hypothesis: 8 1.7. Limitations of the Study: 8 CHAPTER: 2 9 2.1. Literature Review: 9 2.2. Theoretical Framework: 9 MODEL OF THEORETICAL FRAME WORK 11 CHAPTER: 3 12 3.1. Collection of Data: 12 3.2. Research Tools: 12 CHAPTER: 4 13 4.1. Data Analysis: 13 CHAPTER: 5 15 5.1. Conclusions: 15 5.2. Recommendations: 15 References: 17 Appendix: 18 CHAPTER: 1 1. Introduction: Daily the news is one of the leading newspapers in today’s world. This newspaper has progressed a lot in the last 16-17 years. The owners of this newspaper are; Mr.Khalil.ur.Rehman Mr.Shakil.ur.Rehman It is located in Muree road near Liaquat Bagh.Its head office is in Karachi. The working conditions as well as the working environment are very favorable for the employees of the news. All the necessary equipments like computers, printers, fax machine etc and other are also available. This environment is also favorable for the females as interviews were taken from the females working in this institute. There is also a common room for the employees...
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...place environment. Research has undeniably proven that the success or failure of a business begins and ends with quality management, and how they are able to relate to their employees. The military definition of leadership is, “The process of influencing others to accomplish the mission by providing purpose, direction and motivation” (U.S. Army Handbook, 1973). An effective manager is always compelled to understand the style of communication is based on three key components; him or herself (the manager), the personnel being managed and the situation. Although these two managers that will be used as examples in this paper use many of the same approaches, you will see that there are many differences in the way that they communicate with their personnel in similar situations that each of them encountered. From November 2010 to November 2011, I had the opportunity to interact and work with two different managers who shared the same position. I spent an equal amount of time with both, about six months each. For the purpose of this paper (and privacy), from this point forward I will refer to them as manager one and manager two. While both managers used a combination of similar communication approaches, it was the way they conveyed their messages that separated them. Manager one used the behavioral and empowerment approach in almost all of her dealings with her employees. Manager one could even be referred to as a democratic leader. The democratic leader can be seen in two...
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...Running head: ACTION INQUIRY RESEARCH PAPER- MERIT PAY Action Inquiry Research Paper- School Finance Jennifer Ponton Grand Canyon EDA 535 July 01, 2012 Action Inquiry Research Paper- School Finance Statement of the Problem This past spring thousands of teachers protested at the Louisiana State Capital to prevent Louisiana lawmakers from passing an educational reform bill proposed by Governor Bobby Jindall that would change the face of public education in Louisiana forever. Many superintendents and school personnel were relieved of their professional responsibilities on the days they protested hoping that they could sway the governor and the lawmakers from passing the bill. The bill was passed even without the support of many educational leaders and lawmakers in Louisiana. The laws passed by Louisiana lawmakers read like a conservative education reformer’s wish list. Teacher tenure in Louisiana after three years of employment was eliminated and replaced with teachers receiving a “highly effective rating for five out of six consecutive years of teaching. Back to back “ineffective rating will result in a teacher being fired. Seniority will no longer be a dominant factor in layoff decisions. In fact most decisions involving teacher employment and pay will now be the responsibility of both the principal and the superintendent of school. Before Governor Jindall’s reform plan it was the responsibility of the local school board. The reform proposed by the governor...
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