Servant Leadership is a model of a leadership style that is commonly misunderstood. On top of that‚ many people believe that servant leadership is directly connected to Christianity and no other religion applies. Christianity is not the only religion that demonstrates servant leadership; other religions have examples of servant leadership within their core beliefs. The title itself does bring some confusion‚ with word servant being connected to the word leadership. Not to mention that in different
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Pakistan November 14‚ 2009 GENDER DIFFERENCES AND LEADERSHIP: AN EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE Prof. Dr. Mahmood A Bodla COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Sahiwal director@ciitsahiwal.edu.pk Ghulam Hussain COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Sahiwal hussain@ciitsahiwal.edu.pk ABSTRACT Gender diversity at workplace with respect to leadership practices and need for leadership among followers have drawn the considerable research attention among leadership researchers across the world. A number
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Leadership Styles – Autocratic versus Democratic Today’s business organization whether it is large or small is concerned with the financial bottom line. One of its most valuable assets is the human asset. Corporations spend large percentages of their budget on HR personnel and even greater percentages on their management staff. How and why they choose their managers is critical to the maintenance and sustainability of the business organization‚ its culture and its success. The examination and exploration
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Participative Management in the Indian context Evolution of participative management in India Pre- Independence era: Participative management in India has taken to its roots quite early in time . This concept was introduced to the Indian soil by a few humanistic textile mill owners who sought the advice of workers’ spokesmen so as to solve industrial disputes. After a few such minor incidents‚ business houses in India responded to the need of industrial democracy. The Tata Iron and Steel company
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A person’s ability to lead others determines his or her leadership skills. The supervisor is the center of autocratic leadership. The autocratic leader makes decisions without consulting employees. The decision-making process does not provide the same results for every organization. Autocratic leadership may be difficult to deal with for some employees‚ but others may perform well under an autocratic leader. Autocratic leaders make all the decisions‚ communicate them to subordinates‚ and expect immediate
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Management and Leadership If one were asked to explain the differences in management and leadership one could go to dictionary to look the two terms up. The person may find that management means to judiciously use a means to accomplish a result‚ and that leadership means to have the capacity to go ahead of or provide direction. This is a simplistic view and truly does not go into depth as to the differences between management and leadership. So what is the true meaning and differences between management
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an essay on the following topic: "Discuss cultural differences as they exist in American and Vietnamese culture and suggest some ways to overcome them." CONTENT The difference of culture impacts so much to the way to living‚ the way of thinking and the way of doing business. America and Vietnam have a big difference in culture‚ religion and business. However‚ we live in a world where it is called flat world‚ where there is no restriction between countries. It requires us to integrate in order to
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Gender Differences in Leadership Gender stereotypes are very resistant to change. They demonstrate stereotypic beliefs about the attributes of men and women. “The stereotype of men is more similar to stereotype of leaders‚” (Eagly‚ 2007). Because of that women are not seen as “tough enough” or having “what it takes” to perform at the top level. Men’s stereotype characteristics are confidence‚ assertiveness‚ independence‚ rationalization‚ and decisiveness‚ whereas women’s are concern for others‚
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9. Describe the differences between the universal and the contingency leadership theories. Explain your answer in sufficient detail to demonstrate your understanding. Be specific using the materials in your text and not a generalized or philosophical statement. Hint: both the trait and behavioral leadership theories were attempts to find the “one best leadership style in all situations”; thus they are called universal leader theories. According to Stogdill and Mann‚ it was illustrated that traits
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implies self-rule‚ where one can do whatever they want if they have power. Totalitarianism is considered a modern form of an autocratic government‚ where the government controls all aspects of the society. A totalitarian political party seeks to control not only all economic and political matters but the attitudes‚ values‚ and beliefs of the people‚ eliminating the distinction between state and society. According to Carl Friedrich and Zbignew Brzezinksi there are six key elements of totalitarianism and
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