Outcomes Based Practice – Underpinning Theories and Principles Introduction If the emphasis that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has placed on the importance of outcomes is anything to go by‚ providers of care and support services in today’s care environment may imperil themselves if they do not work to achieve and demonstrate desirable outcomes with and for the people they support in whatever capacity. This much is evident in the way that the CQC in its publication (Guidance about compliance
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Introduction Effective leadership is critical to organizational success in the 21st century (Marquis and Huston 2009). In Hong Kong Special Administrative Region‚ most health care organizations are contemplating health care reform and work redesign at the start of a new decade (as in the early 1990’s). Reform of health care delivery in Hong Kong is unquestionably one of the most challenging issue facing nurses and putting unreasonable workloads on nurses (Hedley 2001). Speaking at the annual Hospital
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Leadership style‚ employee motivation and commitment: The study investigated the relationship between different leadership styles and employee motivation and commitment after a merger in a retail bank operating in an economically volatile environment. Data were collected from 121 employees (17 managers and 104 non-managerial) using three closed-ended questionnaires. Using measures of central tendency and correlation analyses‚ results indicated weak but significantly positive relationship between
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Determining g on an Incline Lab #1 Theory: During the early part of the seventeenth century‚ Galileo experimentally examined the concept of acceleration. One of his goals was to measure the acceleration due to gravity‚ or the acceleration of freely falling objects. Unfortunately‚ his timing devices were not precise enough to measure the free fall time directly. He decided to “dilute” gravity by using fluids‚ inclined planes‚ and pendulums. Galileo’s idea of diluting gravity using inclined planes
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It is said that there are almost as many definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted to define the concept (Bass & Stogdill‚ 1990)‚ this kept in mind however there is somewhat of a consensus that leadership encompasses the ability to influence and bring about change whilst effectively increasing satisfaction‚ motivation and overall efficiency of operations. At 47 years of age‚ Principal of Templestowe College Peter Hutton lives with wife Fiona‚ who is also an educator‚ and
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for the initial failure of P&G in Japan. In the year of 1973 Procter and Gamble (P&G) entered the Japanese market‚ until the 1987 P&G was losing a lot of money. Why? Mostly because they didn’t thought about cultural differences. A company just can’t apply everywhere in the world the same products‚ managers‚ sales methods and strategies. Companies have to adjust their ‘working culture’ to the country where they are cooperating. In the case of P&G the following things went wrong:
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Leadership Research Essay The leadership model style or theory that best describe the leader that I am would be the Path-Goal Theory. According to Northouse‚ the Path-Goal theory explains how leaders motivate their subordinates to be productive and to work towards a common goal. Our text tells us that a leader can help subordinates by selecting a style of leadership‚ (directive‚ participative‚ or achievement oriented); in short it explains what the leader’s responsibility to help subordinates
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Transformational Leadership and Performance Across Criteria and Levels: A Meta-Analytic Review of 25 Years of Research Gang Wang1‚ In-Sue Oh2‚ Stephen H. Courtright1‚ and Amy E. Colbert1 Group & Organization Management 36(2) 223–270 © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1059601111401017 http://gom.sagepub.com Abstract Although transformational leadership has been studied extensively‚ the magnitude of the relationship between
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the influence of liquidity‚ leverage‚ profitability‚ growth‚ and ownership structure‚ and market capitalization on the dividend rate. The study reveals that as per dividend irrelevance theory dividend policy has no influence on value of the firm for the reason of homemade dividend according to dividend relevance theory‚ value of the firm is influenced by dividend policy because of certainty‚ information content and clientele effect; liquidity‚ availability of worthwhile projects‚ availability of alternative
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Strategic leadership. This assignment critically evaluates leadership theories within a strategic framework by drawing upon literature sources and contrasting different academic perspectives. It will explore the relevance of strategic leadership within a small organization ‚ as it appears that‚ from an initial review of the literature‚ that strategic leadership theories are aimed at large‚ complex‚ corporate organisations. Recommendations will be made as to whether or not the strategic leadership
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