Frontiers in leadership research Spring 2010 Final paper Sofia Nilsson Altafi TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN THE INDIAN MICROFINANCE ORGANIZATION Introduction During the last two decades, microfinance has received considerable public and institutional attention – accumulating in the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 – and is today presented as the “magic bullet” for fighting global poverty. A country with a particularly interesting microfinance sector is India; in 2008, the total outstanding
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Lynn Tilton’s leadership (p. 389) 1. Use Table 16-2 to evaluate the extent to which Lynn Tilton displayed the characteristics associated with being a good leader and good manager. 2 Case study on Lynn Tilton’s leadership (p. 389) 2. Which different positive and negative leadership traits and styles were displayed by Tilton? Cite examples. 3 Case study on Lynn Tilton’s leadership (p. 389) 3. To what extent does Tilton display situational approaches toward leadership? Explain. 4
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could address the importance of understanding how people form perceptions and make attributions about others with his employees. Joe Salantino, as the President of the Great Northern American, has the charge of creating a successful sales force. A successful element in creating this successful sales force is the understanding of the perception of the sales team. According to Hellriegel & Slocum, perception “is the declaration of the way individuals sift, arrange, and interpret sensory information”
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Organization By Richard Barrett PART I: WHY VALUES ARE IMPORTANT Organizational values are more important today than at any other time in history because the personal and societal context within which business operates is changing. Who you are as an organization, and what you stand for, are becoming just as important as what you sell. The values that an organization lives by are important to a variety of stakeholders: • Society: Organizational values need to meet society’s expectations with regard to environmental
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SP2014 Principles of Management A Summary of the Key Thought Leaders of the Classical School of Management Introduction According to Daft (2009) "Management is the attainment of organizational goals in an effective and efficient manner through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizational resources." The classical school of management often referred to as the "Classical School of Thought" was born in the early 1900s out of a need to run organizations efficiently, and it is
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the CEO of Cyber Software Inc. has managed to control the problem of hacking clients’ information but still has a challenge in developing an organizational structure that will put every worker in his place and define their duties. The function of this management plan is to create an organizational structure that will be used by Cyber Software Inc. The plan focuses on defining the mission and vision of the company and describing how each division will be operating within the company. Mission and
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Teamwork and Motivation OgheneRuona Eregha Dr. Jeffrey Weaver BUS 520 Leadership and Organizational May 25, 2014 Running a company is very much like running a family. There are many schedules to comply with, different people to work with, different ideas, different beliefs, different ages/positions, and so much more. The job of a leader is to get all those different aspects of the business working
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Leadership in Long-term Care: Managerial Qualities that Reduce Turnover Rates in Nursing Homes Riley Reedy BUSN5990/18 Dr. Eskerod 11 December 2017 Identifying managerial skill sets that are effective in reducing turnover rates in nursing home facilities has become crucial as the United States begins to experience a major growth in demand for the long-term care (LTC) sector, and a shortage in relevant healthcare professionals. The aging of the baby boomer generation has resulted
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be classified into two categories namely: 1. unplanned change and 2. planned change. Unplanned change is forced on an organization by external environment. Planned change results from deliberate moves/attempts by management to improve organizational operations, such as quality improvement. Change brings emotions, stress, frustrations and other ill feelings to human kind. The ozone layer is under threat due to environmental changes caused by pollution in the atmosphere. This has resulted
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meaning of leadership? "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." (Drucker, 2001). My concept of leadership has changed in three main ways. First, I previously used the concept of leadership and management interchangeably. Leadership, clearly, was just “management—done better.” Second, good leadership was just a litany of actions: having a vision, good communication, open-mindedness, and so forth. Third, a major underlying assumption was that leadership came with
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