CHAPTER ONE (1) INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Globally‚ educating a nation remains the most vital strategy for the development of the society throughout the developing world (Aikaman & Unterhalter‚ 2005). Many studies on human capital development concur that it is the human resources of a nation and not its capital or natural resources that ultimately determine the pace of its economic and social development. Since education is an investment‚ there is a significant positive correlation
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experience the impact of leadership. Leadership is often regarded as the single most crucial factor in the success or failure of business‚ schools‚ religious groups and of almost all organizations. (Parker‚ 2001) “Leadership is one of the most observed phenomena on earth... but it is one of the least understood.” The word leadership was not known in English language until the first half of the century. Leadership has many meaning; Chapins (1924) said that leadership as a point of polarization
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Chapter 1‚ 2‚ & 6 (p. 142) Leadership definitions: -The process of influencing people to accomplish goals. (Huber) - A process of influencing the behavior of either an individual or a group‚ regardless of the reason‚ in an effort to achieve goals in a given situation (Hershey) -Leadership occurs when human beings with motives and purposes mobilize in competition or conflict with others so as to arouse‚ engage‚ and satisfy motives. (Burns) -The leader focuses on people‚ whereas
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From a theoretical perspective‚ it is evident that Duke understands that leadership is a process and not a position as believed by the masses‚ because he applies both his expertise and experience to each situation and makes decisions according to the situation. Moreover‚ given the variability (many situational triggers) and depth of situations at the PSA‚ it is difficult to fully explain the effectiveness of its leadership. Thus‚ as previously stated‚ this assessment focusses primarily
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Title: Assessing your own leadership capability and performance (M5.29) 5 6 Assessment criteria (the learner can) 1.1 Review the prevailing leadership styles in the organisation Assess the impact of the prevailing leadership styles on the organisation’s values and performance Level: Credit value: Learning outcomes (the learner will) 1 Understand leadership styles within an organisation 1.2 2 Be able to review effectiveness of own leadership capability and performance in meeting
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What is the Cognitive Resource Theory? A theory of leadership that states that the level of stress in a situation is what impacts whether a leader’s intelligence or experience will be more effective What is the Leader-member exhange (LMX) theory? Small ingroup of individuals - because of time pressures‚ leaders establish a special relationship with a small group of their followers. These individuals make up the ingroup—they are trusted‚ get a disproportionate amount of the leader’s attention
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and applying it in a business context to meet consumer demand and to also generate profit for the organisation. In every firm there are environmental factors which influence the ability to develop and maintain a business structure‚ success and relationships with customers; they are internal and external factors (Thomas & Norman 1988). Internal factors are those the firm can control and external factors are beyond the firm’s control. Fragrance Direct is an online supplier of grooming products‚ but
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Leaders and Leadership What is leadership? Leadership is a special form of power‚ one that involves the ability‚ based on the personal qualities of the leader‚ to elicit the followers’ voluntary compliance in a broad range of matters. Leadership is distinguished from the concept of power in that it entails influence‚ that is‚ change of preferences‚ while power implies only that subjects’ preferences are held in abeyance (Etzioni‚ 1965). There are two approaches that we are going to discuss in this
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going to define leadership and management‚ and then I will discuss some of the leadership theories i.e Contingency Theory‚ Path-goal Theory‚ Great man theory‚ Management theories‚ Transformational theory /leader. After that I did an organisational setting in which I discussing the leadership style of Steve jobs in Apple. Then I am going to discuss my strengths and weaknesses on the basis of my peer feedback. At last I write conclusion and recommendation. Leadership Leadership have different
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Leadership and Management Cheri Clark April‚ 19 2015 ABSTRACT This paper will discuss how a Pastor can lead the church and keep the members going in the correct way. Some Pastors do not know the members personally I think if the Pastors take time to get to know the members they will not have a problem with following the pastor. Transformational leadership theory has portrayed there is interest of a lot of research in the field of organizational leadership over the last three
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