collegiality -Other models: political and ambiguity d) How do we successfully move forward? 2- Managing change and conflicts / resistance a) Organisation change management b) Resistance to change -Why does resistance occur? -Positive effects of resistance / Using resistance to generate successful changes CONCLUSION Aurélie’s dissertation Intro As my desire to grow as an educational leader continues to expand over time, I have also become more and
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0143-7739.htm LODJ 32,5 At the end of the road? On differences between women and men in leadership behaviour 428 Jon Aarum Andersen Received May 2010 Revised October 2010 Accepted November 2010 Faculty of Social Sciences, Lillehammer University College, Lillehammer, Norway, and Per H. Hansson Department of Education, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Abstract Purpose – This
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LeJeune used agency theory defined by Hall and Jones as a relationship “in which one or more persons (the principal(s)) engages another person (the agent) to perform some service on their behalf which involves delegating some decision-making authority to the agent” (1992, p. 132), better known as the principal-agent relationship. From an accounting perspective, LeJeune explored the principal-professional relationship in which the supply of knowledge defines the relationship. Using this paradigm
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To what extent is it true that as a result of agency costs shareholders wealth will not be maximized by corporate management. If so, what actions can shareholders take to correct the situation? As we know that agency costs exists in most corporations since the separation of ownership and management in large businesses. Shareholders are the principals and owners; managers are the stockholders’ agents. The problem is to get between shareholders and managers since they
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MGT1000 Organisational behaviour and management Marking criteria for assignment: CRITERIA | FAIL Less than 50% | PASS 50%–64% | CREDIT 65%–74% | DISTINCTION 75%–84% | HIGH DISTINCTION 85% and up | TOTAL | Content | No demonstrated understanding of question; not all issues relevant to question have been answered; inaccurate and irrelevant theory/content; obvious content missing | Borderline understanding of question; may not have answered all the issues relevant to the question
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individuals, called principals, hire one or more other individuals, called agents, to perform some service and then delegate decision-making authority to the agents. The primary agency relationships in business are those (1) between stockholders and managers and (2) between debtholders and stockholders. These relationships are not necessarily harmonious; indeed, agency theory is concerned with so-called agency conflicts, or conflicts of interest between agents and principals. This has implications
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Leadership, is influencing people to follow in the achievement of a common goal (Koontz and O’Donnell, 1959). Educational organization has been going through tremendous changes, reform and restructuring. With these changes, Leadership styles and management techniques have undergone changes to keep up with the needs of the global society (Razik and Swanson, 2010). It is still debated on which Leadership styles or theory is the best to achieve success, with an agreement that a combination of different
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Assignment Question 1 “The mere discovery of a problem is not sufficient to assure that the Financial Accounting Standards Board will undertake its solution … There must be a suitably high likelihood that the Board can resolve the issues in a manner that will be acceptable to the constituency—without some prior sense of the likelihood that the Board members will be able to reach a consensus, it is generally not advisable to undertake a formal project”. Introduction: The above quotation has
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of the basis for the auditor's conclusions that provides the support for the auditor's representations, whether those representations are contained in the auditor's report or otherwise. Audit documentation also facilitates the planning, performance, and supervision of the engagement, and is the basis for the review of the quality of the work because it provides the reviewer with written documentation of the evidence supporting the auditor's significant conclusions. Among other things, audit documentation
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The following essay will analyse the principal features in four main approaches of management dating from the nineteenth century. It will also discuss how these theories have contributed to the current interventions used by different organisations to manage human resources. With the development of the industrial organisations and the beginning of issues linked to their structure and management, the importance of managerial practises arose and different methodologies were used in order to accomplish
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