THE INFLUENCE OF LEADERSHIP ON ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Leadership is a matter of intelligence‚ trustworthiness‚ humaneness‚ courage‚ and discipline . . . Reliance on intelligence alone results in rebelliousness. Exercise of humaneness alone results in weakness. Fixation on trust results in folly. Dependence on the strength of courage results in violence. Excessive discipline and sternness in command result in cruelty. When one has all five virtues together‚ each appropriate to its function
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A leader is someone who directs or guides a group. However‚ good leadership is the ability to set priorities and accomplish what needs to be done with the feelings of the group in mind. In Lord of the Flies‚ Ralph demonstrates many traits that would be considered good leadership. At times he also lacks them‚ and if he had demonstrated them he could have helped the situation greatly. Ralph understands how people feel and has the ability to respect that and make decisions based off of people’s
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How Ethics Influences Leadership In order to draw a correlation of ethics to leadership and provide an overview‚ I find that I must first place the elements of the correlation into the following contextual reference: definitions offered in the textbook‚ the objectives of the lesson(s)‚ and finally our societal or cultural paradigms at play. In our textbook Supervision by Certo‚ ethics is defined as the principles by which people distinguish what is morally right and leadership as the management
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nationalist‚ and the professional. The providential school of thought in American history consisted of using God to justify man’s actions. The providential historians “viewed the story of America as an extension of the history of the Protestant Reformation.” The second school of thought listed was the rationalist. The rationalist historian emerged after the European Enlightenment made its way to America. With the arrival of the Enlightenment‚ “a new class of intellectuals‚ influenced by Newton
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Leadership qualities that motivates and influences Motivation is the cause of behaviour that arouses and directs attention and energy for behaviour. It is manifested in the choice or direction‚ strength and persistence of the behaviour. For example‚ whether a soldier chooses to direct his energy to help or ignore another fellow soldier also the amount of effort the soldier puts in to help and having to give up when the situation gets difficult‚ all this will reflect the motivation of soldier. Motivation
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Ralph‚ The Leader of The Boys In the novel Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding tells a story of a vast group of English schoolboys who become stranded on an island due to a plane crash. They learn of each other’s existence when Ralph blows a conch shell and holds the first meeting. Along with Ralph‚ there is a group of choir boys‚ younger boys who they call "littluns"‚ and a boy named Piggy. The boys vote for Ralph as "chief." The choir boys already have a leader‚ Jack. Jack feels that he has more
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Power and influence tend to have a negative connotation to some people that have perhaps encountered negative situations. Machiavelli suggested for those in power to do whatever it would take to maintain that power‚ in order to extend that power (McManus‚ 2006). Additionally‚ Machiavelli suggested that power has nothing to do with right or wrong‚ nor the welfare of the people (McManus‚ 2006). Furthermore‚ Machiavelli suggests for a leader to do everything in their power to maintain that power‚ even
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In William Golding’s‚ ‘Lord of the Flies’ there is a constant leadership struggle between Ralph and Jack. Ralph has proven himself to be the better leader of the two‚ by keeping his focus on keeping the signal fire going and building shelter‚ and maintaining some type of society and rule. Jack’s leadership style was militaristic‚ making others follow him by making them fear him. He was much more preoccupied with hunting and “The Beast” rather than getting rescued. The first example of contrast in
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Ancient History Ancient Personalities Assessment Agrippina the Younger Stefan Kesic Describe the basis of Agrippina’s power and influence in her time (10 marks) The female role models in her life were the Imperial Women. Livia‚ wife of Augustus was a great influence. She was a powerful woman who held the title of Augusta after her death. The Julio-Claudian women held great prominence and would have acted as role models to Agrippina. Her Claudian grand-mother‚ Antonia retained
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Leadership through the ages has been typically hierarchical where one individual is at the top of the figurative pyramid‚ leading the rest of the collective people‚ but like everything else in life‚ this too changed with time and is still busy changing. In recent years Leadership has become more collective in nature‚ allowing more than just one person the power and authority to make big decisions that affects many lives. This lessens chances of corruption and subjective decision making that could
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