The biology of leadership The relation between leadership, psychopathy and hormones Master thesis Economics and Business 8th of August 2012 Name student: Ricardo Westendorp Student number: 294819rw Supervisor: Wouter van den Berg The biology of leadership PREFACE Around October, 2011, I started looking for a subject to graduate on, when a neuro-economical subject, involving the connection of leadership to psychopathy and hormones, crossed my path. I had to jump into it, because this subject
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B-42, Panchsheel Enclave Post Box 4109 New Delhi 100 017 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7619 4039 1 ISBN 0 7619 4040 5 (pbk) Library of Congress Control Number available Typeset by C&M Digitals (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press Ltd, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 3122-prelims.qxd 10/29/03 2:20 PM Page v Contents Acknowledgements vii Foreword by
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THE ROLE OF LEAN MANUFACTURING AND LEAN TECHNIQUES IN THE SUCCESS OF AN ORGANIZATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Requirements of this project were rather stringent as sufficient knowledge of the topic was not enough. It was also necessary to have abundance of devotion and willpower together with an ability and willingness to perform hard labour for successful completion of this project. It would be unfair on my part not to acknowledge the contribution of all those who had encouraged me all through and kept
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Manager’s Work and Jobs Why Managers? Design and Content of Managerial Jobs Developing Management and Managers Management by Objectives and Self-Control From Middle Management to Information-Based Organizations The Spirit of Performance Managerial Skills The Elements of Effective Decision Making How to Make People Decisions Managerial Communications Controls, Control, and Management The Manager and the Budget Information Tools and Concepts 142 152 160 171 181 183 191 197
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ORGANIZATION SCIENCE Vol. 2, No. 4, November 1991 Printed in U.S.A. ILLUSIONS AND OTHER GAMES: A TRIFOCAL VIEW OF ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS* PATRICIA BRADSHAW-CAMBALL AND VICTOR V. MURRAY York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario, Canada Despite recent and growing interest in organizational politics, conceptual thought in this area tends to be dominated by a single theoretical perspective. In this paper we describe and contrast three views of organizational politics (functionalist
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Subject: Management Concepts and Organizational Behaviour Subject: Management Concepts and Organizational Behaviour ------------------------------------------------- Subject Code: MC-101 Author: Dr. Karam Pal ------------------------------------------------- Lesson No: 01 Vetter: Prof. Harbhajan Bansal ------------------------------------------------- Subject Code: MC-101 Author: Dr. Karam Pal ------------------------------------------------- Lesson No: 01 Vetter: Prof. Harbhajan
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Issue Management............................................................................................ 14 Education Agency Uniqueness .......................................................................... 14 Unfunded Mandates and Local Control............................................................. 15 ESP’s Quality Project Management (QPM) for Education Agencies ......................... 16 QPM Overview...............................................................................
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4 TH EDITION Managing and Using Information Systems A Strategic Approach KERI E. PEARLSON KP Partners CAROL S. SAUNDERS University of Central Florida JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. To Yale & Hana To Rusty, Russell &Kristin VICE PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER EXECUTIVE EDITOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT MARKETING MANAGER DESIGN DIRECTOR SENIOR DESIGNER SENIOR PRODUCTION EDITOR SENIOR MEDIA EDITOR PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES Don Fowley Beth Lang Golub Lyle Curry Carly
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Comments on FUTURE SHOCK C. P. Snow: "Remarkable ... No one ought to have the nerve to pontificate on our present worries without reading it." R. Buckminster Fuller: "Cogent ... brilliant ... I hope vast numbers will read Toffler's book." Betty Friedan: "Brilliant and true ... Should be read by anyone with the responsibility of leading or participating in movements for change in America today." Marshall McLuhan: "FUTURE SHOCK ... is 'where it's at.'" Robert Rimmer, author of The Harrad Experiment:
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