THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP There are eight major leadership theories 1. "Great Man" Theories Assume that the capacity for leadership is inherent – that great leaders are born‚ not made. These theories often portray great leaders as heroic‚ mythic and destined to rise to leadership when needed. The term "Great Man" was used because‚ at the time‚ leadership was thought of primarily as a male quality‚ especially in terms of military leadership. 2. Trait Theories It assume that people inherit certain
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442 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE A Framework for Diagnosing Board Effectiveness* Gavin J. Nicholson** and Geoffrey C. Kiel Pressure on boards to improve corporate performance and management oversight has led to a series of inquiries and reports advocating governance reform. These reports largely reflect an agency perspective of governance and seek to ensure greater board independence from and control of management. While board independence is important to good governance‚ we contend that frameworks
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stockholders by taking actions that increase the value of the stock. However‚ in large corporations ownership can be spread over a huge number of stockholders. This dispersion of ownership arguably means that management effectively controls the firm. In this case‚ will management necessarily act in the best interests of the stockholders? Put another way‚ might not management pursue its own goals at the stockholders’ expense? In the following pages‚ we briefly consider some of the arguments relating to this
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Corporate Governance What were the failures in the Madoff’s affair ? Minor : Management‚ Technology and Entrepreneurship Students : ..................................... Rémi Caroff Ha-Phong Nguyen Hamza Sehaqui Professor :............................... Matthias Finger Lausanne‚ Spring 2013 Corporate governance | Bernard Madoff case Table of content 1. Introduction and problem statement ................................................................................................. 1 1
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CASE 01 - MYSTIC MONK COFFEE 1. Has Father Daniel Mary established a future direction for the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming? What is his vision for the monastery? What is his vision for Mystic Monk Coffee? What is the mission of the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming? Father Daniel Mary Has Established a future direction for the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming. His vision for the monastery is to transform their small brotherhood of 13 living in a small home used as a makeshift rectory into a 500-acre monastery
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Introduction: A discussion on corporate regulation and governance is of great importance in today’s economic world. A number of high profile collapses such as HIH‚ One Tel‚ Harris Scarfe‚ Ansett‚ focuses ones attention on governance issues. Nevertheless‚ corporate governance is not a static thing and even if basic structures remain the same‚ policies and procedures surrounding those structures should constantly be reviewed to ensure that the structure is working properly. Globalisation yields challenges
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE INFLUENCE OF STRUCTURES‚ PROCESSES‚ AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY by Douglas A Peebles A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Capella University February 2007 UMI Number: 3253618 Copyright 2007 by Peebles‚ Douglas A. All rights reserved. UMI Microform 3253618 Copyright 2007 by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected
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HR Data 1) To comply with legislative and regulatory requirements – Organisations need to collect data in order to comply with regulations such as minimum wage‚ working time directive‚ health and safety and even health and safety. 2) Keeping training and performance records on employees enables management to assess individual productivity and performance and allows them to help the employee reach there full potential and in turn increase productivity. Two Types Of Data Collected
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1. What do you think is causing some of the problems in the bank’s home office and branches? I think what is causing some of the problems in the bank’s home office and branches are that the employees do not understand and know exactly how to work the machine. “Johnson replied that she really did not know what the machine was called or what it did. She explained that she had been working there for only 2 months. She did‚ however‚ know precisely how to operate the machine.” (Case#1 pg. 17). The employees
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A Case-Based Retrieval System for Diabetic Patients Therapy Stefania Montani 1 Riccardo Bellazzi1 ‚ Luigi Portinale 2 Stefano Fiocchi 3 and Mario Stefanelli1 ‚ ‚ Abstract. We propose a decision support tool based on the Case Based Reasoning technique‚ meant to help physicians in the retrieval of past similar cases‚ able to provide a suggestion about the revision of diabetic patients’ therapy scheme. A case is defined as a set of features collected during a visit. A taxonomy of prototypical
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