roles. “Most of the research on leadership during the past half century was conducted in the United States‚ Canada‚ and Western Europe. However‚ during the past decade interest in studying leadership in non-Western cultures has increased rapidly” (Yukl‚ pg 436). With a peaked interest in new leadership theories‚ we need to ask ourselves why the sudden interest? What is the benefit of studying other cultures? Why do we need to understand the problems that may come up in regards to gender differences
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the strengths and weaknesses of the study. Behavior Approach The earliest study identified in the 1930’s is known as the trait approach. The trait approach “emphasizes attributes of leaders such as personality‚ motives‚ values‚ and skills.” (Yukl‚ 2010) Between the 1930’s and 1940’s researcher’s became frustrated with the trait approach because it didn’t identify the success of a leader. Due to this frustration‚ the behavior approach was created in the 1950’s. The behavior approach focuses
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Internet. Accessed 07/11/09. Galbraith‚ J.K.(2006) Touchstone Pictures.‚ re-released 2003 Shamir‚ B.‚House‚ R.‚and Arthures‚ M.(1993) Tucker‚ B. and Russell‚ R. (2004). The influence of the transformational leader. Internet. Accessed 28/10/09. Yukl‚ G.(2006)
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respect him. The marketing manager mainly interacts with me. Upon my initial arrival‚ all members were resistant to change and were threatened by my new position and task. It disrupted their organizational culture. According to Robbins and Judge (2007) organizational culture “refers to a system of shared meaning held by members that distinguishes the organization from other organizations” (p. 573). This culture is comprised of characteristics that the organization values. Robbins and Judge offer
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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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and Bass wrote about Transformational Leadership‚ and pointing out its differences from transactional leadership. Continuing by defining transformational leadership and analysing its components‚ as well as a demonstration of how authors like Bass and Yukl contributed to the idea‚ followed by a critical analysis to the topic. In the second part of the paper‚ there is a brief explanation of Inspirational Leadership‚ comparing it with transformational leadership‚ trying to identify the reasons that
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com/growth-companies/#page:1_sort:0_direction:asc_search:choice Hospitality. Service Commitment. (2013‚ January). LEADERS. Retrieved from http://www.leadersmag.com/issues/2013.1_Jan/Hospitality/LEADERS-Herv%C3%A9-Humler-The-Ritz-Carlton-Hotel-Company.html Yukl‚ Gary. (2006). Leadership in organizations‚ 6th Edition. Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Prentice Hall.
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telecommunications industry‚ which eventually put pressure on the company’s executive officers to increase profits (Jonesington‚ 2007‚ p. 1). Unfortunately‚ the executive officers made decisions to commit accounting fraud by falsifying documents to reflect a positive cash flow rather than a negative one. All the individuals involved pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges (Jonesington‚ 2007‚ p. 1). The reason for WorldCom’s failure is not because of poor industry financial conditions but rather because
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are they paying attention to what the consumer wants? According to Yukl (2010) there were a couple major studies done on leadership and behavior in the 1950’s by Ohio State and Michigan. Ohio State’s studies led to a couple major categories of behaviors of leaders. One was consideration while the other was initiating structure (Yukl‚ 2010). Consideration “involves leader concern for people and interpersonal relationships” (Yukl‚ 2010‚ p. 55). When Dailmer bought Chrysler LLC in 1998‚ they could
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Introduction According to Gary Yukl (2007) leadership as “the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it‚ and the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives”. Different people define leadership in different way but there are several components central to the phenomenon of leadership. For example: leadership is a process‚ it involves influencing others‚ it happens within the context of group‚ it
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