LEADERSHIP AND EXPECTATIONS: PYGMALION EFFECTS AND OTHER SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES IN ORGANIZATIONS Dov Eden Tel Aviv University The Pygmalion effect is a type of self-fulfilling prophecy (SFP) in which raising manager expectations regarding subordinate performance boosts subordinate performance. Managers who are led to expect more of their subordinates lead them to greater achievement. Programmatic research findings from field experiments are reviewed, and our present knowledge
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Conflict: It is human nature for an individual to crave power and with it, he is more likely to get what he wants. Conflict between people usually arises from power struggle. This battle for influence and superiority is called power conflict. It occurs when each one wishes to maintain or maximize the amount of influence that it exerts in the relationship and the social setting such as in a decision making process. Situational Example: In the matrix type of organization in which I am currently in, there
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60 Academy of Management Perspectives February A R T I C L E S Leadership and Neuroscience: Can We Revolutionize the Way That Inspirational Leaders Are Identified and Developed? by David A. Waldman, Pierre A. Balthazard, and Suzanne J. Peterson Executive Overview Recent advances in the field of neuroscience can significantly add to our understanding of leadership and its development. Specifically, we are interested in what neuroscience can tell us about inspirational
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appropriate innovative leadership models and how discovery and delivery skills affect the leader’s abilities is valuable to individual in order for them to be able to help their organization, department, or work team to excel. In this paper, I will discuss how transformational leadership and situational leadership support innovation and how the discovery and delivery skills identified by Dyer, Gregersen, & Christensen (2009) promote disruptive innovation within organizations. I will also examine
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UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP • Prentice defined it as “the accomplishment of a goal through the direction of human assistants” • Understand people’s motivations and enlist employee participation • Understand fellow workers • Relate individual goals to group goals A. Problems and Illusions • Crude forms of leadership rely on monetary rewards and alleviation of fears • Human beings are not machines, have complex responses • Each player must fully understand
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So many factors influence an individual's behaviour that it is impossible to accurately predict what behaviour will be in all situations. Why then should managers take time to understand individual differences? Human behaviour is difficult and every individual has different behaviour from another, the challenge of an effective organization is in positively matching the task, the manager and the subordinate. According to Hamid Keshavarz, under best situation, a manager would first study the duty
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and the organizational culture and structure in place at the company. The informal definition of culture is “the way we do things around here” (Leigh, 2007). Also, this paper will describe the power structures and politics at Good Sport. Additionally, this paper will identify specific strategies to leading change and managing resistance to change. Finally, paper will discuss the leadership style that will be the most productive for Good Sport in order to ensure the success of change, and lead the company
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Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization (Thomas Nelson, 2005) Summarised by George Wells This summary was written as a weekly email to the staff in George’s Department. The “Some things to think about” sections are by George and were geared for the staff in their context. In this book, Maxwell deals with an important topic: not everyone is called to be the top leader in an organisation, and so we need to learn to lead from "the middle". The idea of 360-Degree Leadership is that
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Leading & Managing Individuals 2015 GabbyMaggie WGU – JFT Task 1 3/10/2015 Bill Bailey William Bailey, the current chairman of the board at the opera, must decide if it is in the best interest of the opera to merge with the Utah Symphony. Mr. Bailey expressed concern about the financial status of the opera versus the financial status of the symphony. The opera had a ‘reserve fund’ and a business model that afforded the opera the flexibility to cancel projects that did not meet its
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3 Sources of Data 2 2.4 Organisation of Report 2 3.0 The Lack of Appropriate Planning for Change………………………………………..3 3.1 Lack of Contingency Planning 3 4.0 Insufficient Investment in Leadership and Team Building 4 4.1 Transactional Leadership 4 4.2 Transformational Leadership 5 5.0 Transformational Leadership, Work Engagement and Emotional Intelligence 6 5.1 Work Engagement………………………………………………………………………...….6 5.1.1 Application to Case 6 5.2 Emotional Intelligence………………………………………………………………………
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