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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business plans‚ set budgets and monitor progress. Leaders on the other hand‚ get organizations and people to change. That’s true‚ as far as it goes‚ but there is a more useful distinction between management and leadership: Management is a function that must be exercised in any business‚ leadership is a relationship between leader and led that can energize an organization. Of course‚ the management function can include problem solving and facilitating meetings as well as the traditional bureaucratic tasks
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if the new chief administrator had the competence‚ leadership skills and charisma enough to restructure the organization and improve the economic efficiency‚ i.e. make sure the budget show a surplus. During 2004 and 2005 the chief administrator focused on the restructuring of the organization and strongly emphasized respect for the economic resources. Purpose: Through a pilot study describe and analyse the concept of Transformational leadership and its impact on economic results? Method: A quantitative
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Distinguish between the traditional model of leadership and the sorts of skills and attributes required for leading the twenty-first century organisation. Traditional model of leadership involves a hierarchical organisational structure with a top-down approach (Graetz et al. 2011). Traditional leadership includes total control over its followers and dictatorship that is now considered as an archaism in today’s society. However‚ there are still traditional leadership attributes invested within
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Recently‚ there is a heated discussion over the difference between Chinese leaders and Western leaders. As for this topic‚ I will also talk something about it from two perspectives: religion and lifestyle. As we all know‚ religion is a part of the culture‚ which plays a vital role in people’s daily life. The majority of Westerners believe in Christianity. That is because Christian culture constitutes a Western cultural background. Thus it makes any part of Western culture are more or less with a
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various styles of leadership. Differences in personality‚ attitudes‚ values and beliefs will influence how people interpret an assignment or a task. Leadership effectiveness is broadly based on the leaders’ personalities and attitudes while also how effectively they interpret differences amongst employees. All of these factors affect the leader-follower interaction but will genders in leadership affect the overall leadership ability or approach? I believe that there are differences in genders in
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Transformational leadership theory is defined as inspiring followers through “broadening and elevating followers’ goals and providing them with confidence to perform beyond the expectations specified in the implicit or explicit exchange” (Shin and Zhou 2003‚ as cited in Dvir‚ Eden‚ Avolio‚ & Shamir‚ 2002). This paper intends to focus on the effect that transformational leadership has on individual performance. Dvir et al (2002) observed the Israel Defense Force and hypothesized that transformational
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Features of Charismatic Leadership Self-Confidence “I realize that I make enemies. I have no choice. Either I come here and sit comfortably and be nice to people and do nothing or else‚ I try to do something even at the expense of being unpopular. I don’t think I’ll be permanent here. I don’t think I’ll be forever unpopular‚ so it doesn’t really matter. Even being thrown out of the office doesn’t really bother me.” -Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. (Aziz Zariza Ahmad‚ 1954. Mahathir’s Paradigm
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Traditional and Contemporary Leadership Models The study on rural leadership is filled with details of the challenging approach of rural areas. Of the challenges mentioned‚ leadership essential to support rural areas in growing their traditional boundaries emerges to be the most considerable. As society becomes more complicated‚ rural areas become similarly complicated‚ placing a greater requirement on the people who assist them. But what is leadership? Do leaders have particular features and/or
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Balyer (2012) affirmed the impact of transformational leadership in addressing satisfaction of human resource personal and professional needs in terms of team-orientation‚ effective communication‚ and role modeling of high moral standards. Also‚ some researches claimed that transformational leadership had brought forth leader’s ability to increase organizational members’ commitment‚ capacity‚ and engagement in meeting
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