Department of Business Administration Management Shared Leadership as a Future Leadership Style - will the idea of the traditional top-down manager be an obstacle? Master Thesis Management Autumn 2008 Authors: Elisabeth Andréas Sara Lindström Tutor: Gill Widell 820114 820719 Abstract Leadership has always attracted human beings. In this thesis we identify the traditional top-down single leadership as a powerful norm‚ influencing every leader. With this assumption in mind
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THE EFFECT OF LEADERSHIP STYLE ON EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION AND PERFORMANCE OF BANK EMPLOYEES IN BANGKOK Rochelle Joy Belonio1 Abstract: This paper aims to determine the effect of leadership styles on employee job satisfaction and the effect of employee job satisfaction on employee job performance. A survey was conducted by administering questionnaires to 400 respondents in the banking sector in Bangkok. The results show that most of the bank employees‚ most of them females between 20 and 39 years old
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When researching leadership studies and the overall leadership process‚ it is safe to say that leaders and followers are the building blocks of leadership. One can assume that just as a follower needs someone to lead them‚ a leader can’t lead without followers. However‚ in most leadership studies and research‚ the results and information are usually leader centered. Heller and Van Til define leadership as an action more readily defined through the eyes of a follower. “While individuals may look
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April 15‚ 2010 CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP Have you ever‚ knowing‚ made choices based on how that person engaged you and made you think? Charismatic Leadership involves creating a self-image so powerful that people are naturally drawn to you. Some even say it’s (Christianity) an extraordinary power granted by the Holy Spirit. Charisma and Leadership (Huffpost Politics‚ an Internet newspaper) There is a list of people whose leadership has been characterized as based on charismatic authority‚ including
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Motivation‚ Satisfaction and Performance Plan LDR 531 Table of Contents The Team 1 Motivation‚ Satisfaction‚ and Performance 1 Motivation 1 Satisfaction 2 Performance 2 The Plan 2 References 4 The Team The team is composed of four team members and one team manager; Mike‚ James‚ Mary‚ Katy and Barb. The team does a good job staying motivated and satisfied‚ and also performs well. However‚ there are moments the team struggles due to differences in attitudes‚ emotions‚ and values
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Conceptual Background This paper will discuss about job satisfaction and its relation with job performance and absenteeism. Job satisfaction has been defined as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job. Stephen P. Robbins based in his book (Organizational Behavior‚ 12th edition) described job satisfaction as a positive feeling about one’s job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics. Job satisfaction is one of dependent variable of organizational behavior
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contribute a lot to the well being of his/her pupils. A dissatisfied teacher can become irritable and may create tensions which can have negative influence on the students’ learning process and it consequently affects their academic growth. Job satisfaction implies the overall adjustment to work situation. Attitude is readiness to react towards or against some situation‚ person or thing in a particular manner. The attitudes‚ ideas‚ feelings and interests of a child are influenced by the organization
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significant differences in academic performance of students of …………. University with regard to their social background. There are social differences among students that create social inequality‚ mainly due to the existence of classes in society. Students representing different social classes can achieve different results in their career paths. The paper’s point of departure is that there are great deals of socio-economic factors that can affect the academic performance of the students. These include the
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Leadership and Organizational Performance Kelley‚ R. C.‚ Thornton‚ B.‚ & Daugherty‚ R. (2005). Relationships between measures of leadership and school climate. Education‚ 126(1)‚ 17-25. Retrieved November 5‚ 2007‚ from Research Library database. (Document ID: 901917061). This article was a research study that examined the relationship school leaders has on the school’s climate and the effectiveness of the school. The study will be extremely beneficial to the pending research because it specifically
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Leadership style and performance An overview of the topic of leadership styles summarizes that the existing studies on how performance is affected by leadership style is separated into important phases. Early studies on leadership (frequently categorized as ‘trait’ studies on leadership) concentrated on identifying the personality traits which characterized successful leaders (Argyris‚ 1955; Mahoney et al.‚ 1960). According to them successful leaders are ‘naturally born’ and those they have certain
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