Among your Learning Resources this week are three articles by Dr. Claudia Fernandez: "Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace‚" "Employee Engagement‚" and "The Power of Positive Personal Regard." Review these articles again and choose one of these themes to use as a vantage point from which to assess your current workplace (or‚ if more appropriate‚ a previous workplace). Draw on the principles you have learned about in other resources‚ including this week’s video program‚ "Building an Effective Organization
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Man’s Search for Meaning Working in law enforcement for 25 years‚ I have responded to traumatic events numerous times. In the aftermath of trauma‚ victims are emotionally and/or physically devastated. I have often found myself pondering‚ “How do the survivors bounce back from this?” Viktor Frankl’s book‚ Man’s Search for Meaning‚ addresses and answers this very question. Man’s Search for Meaning is considered one of the most significant works of our time. Written by an Austrian psychiatrist
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Profitability Ratios Most firms aim to make a profit. In order to assess the efficiency of a business in achieving this major objective‚ two profitability ratios may be used: the return on capital employed and net profit margin. In both measures‚ a high percentage represents a better performance than a low percentage‚ as a business wants to earn high profits. The gross profit margin This measures the gross profit of the business as a proportion of the sales revenue. It is calculated using
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* Study Question 1: What is organizing as a management function? * Organizing and organization structure * Organizing * The process of arranging people and other resources to work together to accomplish a goal. * Organization structure * The system of tasks‚ workflows‚ reporting relationships‚ and communication channels that link together diverse individuals and groups. * Figure 10.1 Organizing viewed in relationship with the other management functions.
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successful leader‚ one must have specific virtues to qualify them as effective. This analysis examines how a leader utilizes organizational power‚ the magnitude to which the leader is constrained by contingency factors‚ how the leader deals with ethical issues‚ and the leader’s decision-making style and influence tactics in addition to other characteristics. The leader detailed in this analysis is proven to be effective based on certain qualities and the methods he employ to successfully reach the
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Macro Leadership: A new Leadership Must Professor Pierre Casse‚ Moscow School of Management-Skolkovo Professor Melita Rant‚ IEDC Bled School of Business A word of caution! This article is born not only from the meeting of two minds but also out of the frustration experienced by the two writers (academics) during and after the major crisis that started in 2009.Disappointed and shocked by the leadership of the top Decision Makers of the world as well as by their behaviours‚ both writers decided
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Effective leadership is a leader with exceptional oratorical skills who can persuade people to follow him or her to reaching their goal by asserting encouragement or fear. Throughout history we have had a number of leaders‚ effective and ineffective. Of the effective leaders all had a goal he or she were striving to obtain. They also shared similar characteristics such as oratorical skills‚ and most importantly the effective leaders were aware that people are moved by pathos‚ emotional appeal. So
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communities. While his self development programs have popularized traditionally exclusive ancient techniques‚ Sri Sri’s social initiatives address an array of issues such as conflict resolution‚ disaster and trauma relief‚ prisoner rehabilitation‚ youth leadership‚ women’s empowerment‚ female foeticide‚ child labor‚ and access to education. In Kashmir and Sri Lanka‚ Sri Sri is working to further dialogue between opposing parties to resolve the conflicts peacefully. Sri Sri travels to more than 40 countries
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gain respect. According to the book Beowulf‚ a warrior must show loyalty to his fellow warriors and the men superior to him‚ exquisite leadership skills‚ and highest bravery in all battles. Many warriors in Beowulf were loyal to their rulers and fellow rulers when they were in need of help which is seen in Beowulf and in Wiglaf. Because Hrothgar‚ warrior and king of the Danes‚ helped Beowulf’s father when he needed desperate help‚ when he was having trouble with the monster‚ Grendel‚ Beowulf‚ a Geat
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Leadership Style LDR 531 October 4‚ 2013 Rick Benito Leadership Style A Leader to Emulate Robert “Bob” Gale was the first sales manager ever worked with at Baxter Healthcare’s Renal Division. Although Bob never had a political agenda‚ when it came to managing the Hemodialysis Sales Team‚ he demonstrated many traits of a transforming leader. According to Yukl‚ “These leaders seek to raise the consciousness of followers by appealing to ideals and moral values.” (p. 347). The first advice
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