EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Best Companies for Leadership Study that conducted by Bloomberg BusinessWeek.com and the Hay Group in 2009‚ revealed that best companies for leadership focus on employee engagement through commitment and discretionary effort and on employee enablement‚ with optimized roles and supportive environment‚ leading to financial success‚ customer satisfaction and employee performance – all to drive organisational performance. (SHRM Research Quarterly‚ 2010). This report was made to explain
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The Importance of Ethical Leadership Ethical leadership is the foundation to successful leadership. There is no substitute for honesty and integrity inside and outside of the workplace. It is something that is extremely difficult to earn back. Once someone’s ethical persona has been jeopardized that person may not ever be able to regain it‚ especially if that person continues to work among the same peers. Ethical leadership sets the tone for the culture of the organization. In the article
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Background There has been much discussion regarding the relative effectiveness of different leadership styles in bringing about improved student performance. Instructional leadership is one of the most useful tools in creating a forward-looking‚ student-centered school environment. Instructional leadership can be defined as "those actions that a principal takes‚ or delegates to others‚ to promote growth in student learning." In practice‚ this means that the principal encourages educational achievement
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Ethical Leadership Influence plays a major part in leadership (Yukl‚ 2010). Powerful leaders can have a huge impact on the lives of followers and the organization (Yukl‚ 2010). Leaders will use power‚ but the primary issue is whether the leaders will use the power wisely (Yukl‚ 2010). At the expense the organization and the public‚ powerful leaders can move up in their careers and economic gain (Yukl‚ 2010). A leader can make unethical practices look legitimate and even influence the members
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Servant Leadership 6.4 Servant Leadership Effective leadership is essential to an organization’s success. A good leader provides vision‚ motivation and helps a group implement a plan or process through to completion. A great leader can possess the same qualities and are able to transform people‚ organizations and even countries. There are multiple styles of leadership and many ways to lead a group toward success. Bateman & Snell (2009) describes five different leadership styles
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Since the beginning of time‚ humans have always depended on leadership for survival. Citizens follow governments‚ armies need generals to lead them into battle‚ and businesses need executive officers. However‚ just because someone leads others does not mean that he possesses the correct qualities for being a true leader. In order to understand what qualifies as a good leader‚ one must first define the qualities needed in good leadership. Often times in literature‚ leaders come across as heroic‚ but
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Contrasting Servant Leadership to Transactional Leadership Organizational Behavior and Management defines Transactional Leadership as being‚ “Helps the follower identify what must be done to accomplish the desired results (e.g.‚ better-quality output‚ more sales or services‚ reduced cost of production) and ensures that employees have the resources needed to complete the job‚ (Ivancevich‚ Konopaske‚ Matteson‚ p. 453).” Business dictionary defines transactional leader as a‚ “style of leadership that is based
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Leadership can be defined as a process by which one individual influences others toward the attainment of group or organizational goals. According to Harold Koontz and Heinz Weihrich‚ “Leadership is the art or process of influencing people so that they will strive willingly and enthusiastically so towards the achievement of group goals.” Leadership as a concept has been widely and extensively discussed by various experts‚ professors and authors. All these researches and discussions have given
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Nursing Leadership In the field of nursing leadership‚ Percival pointed out that the nurse leaders are required to have an understanding of the philosophy‚ values and goals of PHC to guide national policy towards social equity and reduce the health inequity and related socioeconomic inequity in the community. They are required to be able to look beyond the expansion of traditional nursing roles or mere cosmetic changes in nursing education programs. In Hong Kong‚ the Chinese University of Hong
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Franks February 19‚ 2013 Naval Science Leadership Philosophy When people think about leadership philosophy usually the first thing that comes to mind how an individuals core values profile his/her leadership ability. My perception of a leadership philosophy is similar to that of the popular conception. Comprehensively everyone possesses different leadership quality based on these moral character traits. All in all my leadership philosophy derives from my rearing‚ and consummates
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