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University Leadership

some control over their own work lives. Models that promote empowerment, involvement, responsibility, accountability and autonom...

Style of Leadership Used by Richard Branson

world (Woopidoo, 2005). Branson began Virgin Atlantic Airways in 1984, Virgin Mobile in 1999, released a book entitled, "Losing My...

Analyzing Bowling for Columbine from a Sociological Perspective

Marx). In other words, Marx saw societies as being composed of classes in constant conflict. Differing markedly from his predecess...

Elmore Leonard's 'Rum Punch'

for years, before that he was a cop. Hes seen it all and knows the seamy side of life. Hes split up from his wife Renee, who run...

Can Leadership Quality Be Improved Upon By Leadership Theory?

and develop leaders or enhance the skills and influence of leaders, whereas for other it may explain why an how leaders are effect...

Formal Structure, Effective Teamwork, and Leadership

if true, whatever the way teamwork is implemented and as such it is the way the teams are put together and structured that are the...

Critiquing Peter Senge's Leadership and Learning

basis of his concept pf learning is that we are gradually taught or learn not to learn. Senge quotes Deming when looking organisat...

Medieval Individuality and Leadership

require freedom. It would not be until much later, during the latter part of the eighteenth century, that the world would see imme...

Race, Social Class, and Society's Unequal Distribution According to Max Weber

it is in the interests of the ruling class to so define them. * Members of the ruling class will be able to violate the laws with...

Practice and Theory of Leadership and Management

been concerned about the same thing for some time and several weeks before began keeping a time log categorized according to proje...

Johnson and Johnson Leadership and Succession

in finding leaders are exemplified in Mr. Weldons history with the company. He joined Johnson & Johnson in 1971 as a sales repres...

Maxwell's '21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership'

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

Leadership Characteristics According to James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

are they afraid of difficult situations. They learn from these. Effective leaders are first to adopt innovations. Leaders step bac...

Values Axiom of Max Weber and the Immigrant Experience

Prestige is the degree of respect or importance attached to an individual or cultural group. As will be explained below, each of ...

Modern Society and Social Class

every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the...

A Review of Decisions Without Blinders

propensity for heart attack and stroke. Data revealing the potential hazards of Vioxx was by all accounts easily available to doc...

Martha Stewart's Styles of Leadership

nothing less(Maxwell, 1998). 3. The Law of Process - Leadership develops daily, not in a day (Maxwell, 1998). 4. The Law of Na...

Effective Leadership Cannot Necessarily Be Predicted by Leadership Theories

number of commonly shared characteristics that indicate a more heritable aptitude toward capable leadership. As the name im...

Overview of a Leadership Self-Assessment Report

a transformational leadership model being fostered. This is the model this student wants to adopt, however, she needs more knowled...

The 2004 Film Miracle and an Application of Leadership Analysis

subject of Gavin OConnors 2004 film, Miracle. As portrayed by Kurt Russell, Brooks is presented as a no-nonsense disciplinarian w...

Healthcare, Change, and Leadership

organisational changes fail at a rate of 29% (Maurer, 1997). Reengineering is higher at 30% and of most concern is the figure for ...

Douglas McGregor's The Human Side of Enterprise and Leadership

be regarded as the bible of modern leadership theory, The Human Side of Enterprise. The central theme of this work involves the u...

Leadership and the American Express Company

and influencing change" (Komives, et al 593). The new components of leadership focus on supporting "collaboration, ethical action ...

Matching Leadership Development and Compensation

no longer met the demands of the business environment" (Lawler and Worley, 2006; p. 1). They had failed to change at a time when ...

Bureaucracy's Pros and Cons

to Max Weber, are aligned with the idea that management must follow rules, that officials need to be employed full time and that o...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

Self Improvement in Leadership and Management

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

Developing Leadership In Public Organizations

and one they refer to as an "integrated approach" (NESGFOA, 2006). Agencies using the just-in-time approach are training people ...

Leadership in the East and the West

there will be a greater level of collectivism in areas which have are communist culture, such as China, is Muslim areas and those ...

An Analysis of Max Weber's Ideas about Capitalism

day is over--often at 4:30--they go home and dread the next day. It is a rut. Compare that to the hard working, up and coming exec...