United States Securities and Exchange Commission Form 10- K Microsoft Corporation For the fiscal year ended June 30‚ 2012 Sujata Gawali ACCT 221 Prof. John Davis June 16‚ 2013 General Business Information: Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational software corporation founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4‚ 1975. It develops‚ manufactures‚ licenses‚ and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. Originally‚ Microsoft was established
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Leadership Style: Leadership is the guidance offered by one to another that supports and aids in the completion of any given task ( According to Adair‚ 2005 and McManus (2006)‚ A leadership style is a leader’s style of: providing direction‚ implementing plans b and motivating people There are six common styles of Leadership (...................): Authoritarian Paternalistic Leadership Laissez-Faize Transactional Transformational (each style will have its own slide‚ present general information
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Dear Coach Williams‚ I have been on a boat in the ocean for 3 months now. I learned about three species and several plants. I found incredible facts about the ocean. The ocean covers 71% of the earth’s surface and contains 97% of earth’s water. Less than 1% of the earth’s water is freshwater. The other 2-3% is contained in glaciers and ice caps. Also‚ 99% of the living space is contained by the ocean and it holds 320 million cubic miles of water. The Pacific ocean has the nickname “peaceful sea”
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leaders born or made? A large amount of research is carried out around ‘are leaders born or made?’ studies have shown that genetics and the environment both play a part in leadership development. However‚ the relative contribution of each is subject to much scientific debate. For example‚ intelligence plays a part in leadership development‚ as does emotional intelligence. Certain personality traits such as self-confidence‚ dominance and extroversion also play an important role. The family often influences
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Chapter 17 Leadership TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS WHO ARE LEADERS AND WHAT IS LEADERSHIP? 1. Managers and leaders are the same. (False; easy; p. 488) 2. Ideally‚ all managers should be leaders. (True; easy; p. 488) EARLY THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP 3. Despite the best efforts of researchers‚ it proved impossible to identify one set of traits that would always differentiate leaders from nonleaders. (True; moderate; p. 489) 4. Effective leaders do not need a high degree of knowledge about
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there. The author uses quotations from Aristotle to support his statements and to bring it all together. Leading by Example Leadership is getting people to do things that they would not normally do on their own. There are several types of leadership styles and different styles work for different people. When most people think of leadership‚ they think of that coach yelling at his team before the big game‚ or a general talking to his soldiers before battle. In day to day life‚ in most circumstances
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Tool for Competitive Advantage. New Delhi: Biztantra. Lashinsky‚ A. (2012) Larry Page: Google should be like a family [online]. Available from:http://www.tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/19/best-companies-google-larry-page/?iid=F_F500M. Mckay‚ B. Mckay‚ K. (2008) The 35 Greatest Speeches in History [online]. Available from: http://wwwartofmanliness.com/2008/08/01/the-35-greatestspeeches-in-history/. Muller-Camen‚ M. Croucher‚ R. and Leigh‚S. (2011) Human Resource Management: A Case Study Approach. Mumbai:
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Leadership for leaders “Informed‚ thoughtful and practical… a very fine achievement.” Yury Boshyk‚ formerly Professor at IMI Geneva and IMD Lausanne Michael Williams Blank page LEADERSHIP FOR LEADERS Michael Williams Thorogood Publishing Limited 10-12 Rivington Street London EC2A 3DU Telephone: 020 7749 4748 Fax: 020 7729 6110 Email: info@thorogood.ws Web: www.thorogood.ws Books Network International Inc 3 Front Street‚ Suite 331 Rollinsford‚ NH 30869‚ USA Telephone:
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Transformational Leadership and Performance Across Criteria and Levels: A Meta-Analytic Review of 25 Years of Research Gang Wang1‚ In-Sue Oh2‚ Stephen H. Courtright1‚ and Amy E. Colbert1 Group & Organization Management 36(2) 223–270 © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1059601111401017 http://gom.sagepub.com Abstract Although transformational leadership has been studied extensively‚ the magnitude of the relationship between
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Scenario BAILEY BUS & COACH COMPANY You work as an administrative officer in the Human Resources department of Bailey Bus & Coach Company‚ a large‚ family-owned company located in your town. The Human Resources Manager is Ahmed Fawzi and you report directly to him. The company has expanded a great deal in the past 12 months‚ mainly because of the acquisition of new contracts and the expansion of the coach tours into Europe. A development project is also ongoing which is investigating the
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