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how it can impact organizational performance Leadership is one of the most important determining aspects of a companys success -...

immediately went to work at GE Plastics in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1981, Welch became CEO and chairman for General Electrics...

to success. This is an aspect that authors Rooke and Torbert (2005) introduced some years ago, is the concept of "action logic," i...

and command as a problem to solve and he did so. Those are the strengths of the entrepreneurial leader: a dream, a strong vision t...

undesirable, the style works. Jobs is a great leader because he combines the basic functions of management and does them well with...

because it tries to find a resolution that is acceptable to all parties (Bizman and Yinon, 2004). Part of the leadership plan wou...

and people were referred to as sheep: "When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless,...

are disciplined and they are able to see the Gestalt, the big picture.2 They know what they want to accomplish and even know how l...

a mentoring leader, He gave them more and more responsibility so they would be able to carry on after He left.4 For instance, in L...

One of the theories from the mid-1990s that is still getting a lot of press is Golemans introduction of emotional intelligence as ...

is Lou Platt, who was promoted to a position of leadership in 1992, after serving with the company for some 26 years (OToole, 2000...

organization when the leadership is shared between every member of the organization, with each member having responsibility and ac...

2009). Contingency styles consider the relationship between the leader and follower, the specific task, and power (Doyle & Smith, ...

leadership, leaders must make a committed examination of the particular context in which they operate. For this reason, it is diff...

varying organizational contexts and came to the conclusion that modern leadership should strive to "lead employees better" and to ...

of the department and the achievement of goals by motivating staff through the offer of rewards (Sellgren, Ekvall and Tomson, 2006...

transformational leadership (Bass, 1990). Transactional leadership, in general, is a leadership approach focused on processes and ...

DePree adopted a model of leadership that pictures the leader as both inspiring and serving (Budman, 2002). Such a framework for l...

(Monoky, 1998; p. 142) to result in four possible styles of communication and accomplishing tasks. This model provides variation ...

in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...

equated with a leaders pattern of interactions that actually serves to make the group more powerful, developed and satisfied. Such...

Reward and reinforcement occurs when a reward follows an "occurrence of a specific behavior" such that the behavior is acknowledge...

This 8 page paper is written in 2 parts,. The first part looks at a Turkish business; Çolakoglu A.S, a yarn manufacturer, and exam...

ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...

person they want to be (Drucker in Hesselbein et al, 1997). Charles Handy, another recognised management Guru cites the short-sigh...

In a paper of fifteen pages, the writer looks at nursing leadership. Authoritarian and transformative leadership styles are synthe...

This paper is written in three parts, each looking at a concept that can be applied to leadership. The first section looks at how...

This essay pertains to nursing leadership styles and focuses primarily on participative leadership. Three pages in length, three s...

Extensive research has taken place regarding key success factors for project management, by separate research has been undertaken...

3. The Law of Process - Leadership develops daily, not in a day (Maxwell, 1998). 4. The Law of Navigation - Anyone can steer the...