ways a leader can achieve results from employees is via motivation. When a leader motivates, he/she wields an implied sense of power, albeit organizational or personal. To motivate effectively, leaders must be cognizant that motivation requires a physical action, there must be a need by employees to want to be motivated, and there must be an emotional commitment to be motivated (Filson, 2013). It goes without saying, the process of motivation requires more than a leader’s action eliciting a reaction
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Leadership is essential to the success of every organization. Organizations “seek those with leadership ability because they believe they bring special assets to their organizations, and ultimately, improve the bottom line.” (Northouse, 2012, p. 1) Arguably, there is no place where leadership is more important than in educational institutions. Principals have been and will continue to be the primary leaders in K-12 schools well into the 21st century. Their thoughts, behaviors, actions, and
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Blanchard, the author of Leadership and the One Minute Manager, states that to be an effective manager one must be a situational leader employing, “Different strokes for different folks” (Blanchard, 1985). Situational leadership suggests that there is no “best” style of leadership, but rather there is an appropriate leadership style for a particular individual, situation, or task. Blanchard proposes that successful managers are responsive, and able to adapt their leadership style to the maturity or
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MOTIVATION Whenever we think about life and its necessities we find that there are too many things which are required to live a successful life. In general terms we say that we need food, clothing, housing, education etc. to live a successful or happy life (Psychology today 2012). To get a successful life a person attempts many things like getting education, getting a better job, marrying and so on. Motivation plays an important role in achieving all these things. We can say that motivation is
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role by example and motivates others to follow. Leadership is an important aspect of all human activities. Effective leadership helps nations during difficult times and makes a business organization successful. It enables organizations to fulfill their missions and most importantly, effective leadership in parents enables children to grow strong and healthy and become responsible and productive adults in the society. Nurturing and building leadership skills in young people is an assurance of stability
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many types of modern approaches to leadership. It is where leaders try to motivate their followers in order to achieve agreed goals. In order for followers to achieve the set goals, leaders must be able to motivate followers and help build their confidence towards reaching the goals. It is heavily focused on employee satisfaction and their input towards their job which, in turn, will motivate them to achieve more. This is a perfect example to show that leadership does not start from the top then down
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changes have been implemented. * Collect and analyze new data * Has the changes corrected the problem? * Are there any changes that need to be made? Employee Motivation Employee motivation is a key element to the success of a company. Here are a few steps that the management can take in order to increase the motivation within the company. Step one: Employee recognition. Many employees will work harder to help the success of the company when the management acknowledges them. When an
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Transformational versus Transactional Leadership 1 Running Head: Transformational versus Transaction Leadership Transformational versus Transaction Leadership Dr. Byron L. Cherry 28 August 2007 Transformational versus Transactional Leadership 2 Introduction The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~ Theodore Roosevelt Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very
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Running head: WORKPLACE MOTIVATION Workplace Motivation Lester Cash University of Phoenix Human Motivation PSY 320 Joan Phillips, PhD July 24, 2007 Abstract Continuous Quality Improvement, Shared Governance, leaders leading by example and pay for performance are just a few of the many programs implemented at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City, Ok. in an effort to motivate employees to perform to exceptional standards. This paper describes just a small portion of how these
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Leadership Assessment Professor Woodard BUS302 March 4th 2013 Eastern Builders a construction company, is a task oriented and leadership company. The chief executive officer delegates his powers to different site managers based in different parts of the world. They are given powers to implement the decisions made by the head office and tasked to achieve the target given in a certain period of time. Task-oriented leadership style is one where the team leader is well focused on the major tasks
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