staff and low level of grievances but this meant performance levels were much lower. Fiedler put forward his situational theory in 1958. He proposed that leadership was dependent upon the situation and assumed that all leaders are affected by an inherent set of leadership behaviours‚ which he believed was difficult to change. He identified two basic leadership styles which were task or relationship orientated. According to Tulsian and Pandey (2008) leaders who are task orientated will perform at the
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Business Sustainability Alternate measure for Economic Performance Jayant Kumar Preface An indicator is something that helps one to understand inclusive position‚ the path and how far one is from the point they want to be. A good indicator gives the alert about the problem before it gets too bad and helps to recognize things to do in-order to fix it. Indicators of sustainable community point to areas where the links between the economy‚ environment and society are weak. It allows one to
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Leaders and Leadership An Analysis of Kevin Rollins and his Leadership Style MBA 517 –T Outcomes This paper will discuss some elements on what makes an effective leader and how their leadership style can transform a company. This paper will specifically discuss the leadership style of Kevin Rollins‚ who was the chief executive officer of the computer giant
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and political science literature to describe leaders who by force of their personal abilities are capable of having profound and extraordinary effects on followers. These effects include commanding loyalty and devotion to the leader and of inspiring followers to accept and execute the will of the leader without hesitation or question or regard to ’one’s self interest. The term charisma‚ whose initial meaning was "gift"‚ is usually reserved for leaders who by their influence are able to cause followers
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Transformational versus Transactional Leadership This document is intended to compare and contrasts Transformational and Transactional Leadership and discusses how they are used in management of organizations by managers. Before we can delve into the comparison or contrast‚ we first need to define what we mean by each of these terms we are comparing and contrasting. Transformational Leadership Defined This type of leadership can best be defined as a process in which "leaders and followers help
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Transformational leadership respites on the bases of transactional leadership (Simic‚ 1998). It focused on the technologies changes and also the human relation aspects (Imran & Wasim‚ 2010). According to James McGregor Burns‚ the new style transformational leadership is the leadership that needed today yet not the old style of transactional leadership (Simic‚ 1998). Transformational leadership is a complex process; the realization requires more visionary and more inspiring figures (Simic‚ 1998).
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studied and researched taxonomies in the leadership archetype. Over the years‚ different situations‚ culture‚ organizational requirement‚ and nature of subordinates have encouraged the development of numerous leadership theories‚ of which ‘TFL’ is probably the most effective. Army leaders lead more closely than most of their counterparts in civilian life do‚ in situations where a lack of effective leadership may have catastrophic result (Transformational Leadership‚ 2007). Bangladesh Army is presently
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FIELD EXPERIMENTS IN ECONOMICS By: Ravisha Sodha INTRODUCTION: Field experiments occupy an important middle ground between laboratory experiments and naturally occurring field data. The underlying idea behind most field experiments is to make use of randomization in an environment that captures important characteristics of the real world. Distinct from traditional empirical economics‚ field experiments provide an advantage by permitting the researcher to create exogenous variation in the variables
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Leadership is a practical skill regarding the ability of leading and guide other individuals‚ groups and organizations and also it is a subjective notion. Moss‚ J.‚ Jr.‚ & Jensrud‚ Q. (1995). Theoretically‚ some of research indicates that leadership of women tend to have more relationships oriented rather than task relationship and vice versa. (Eagly‚ Alice H & Johnson‚ Blair T. 1990). Recently‚ the transformational and transactional leadership construct became a popular subjects in leadership studies
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INTRODUCTION Leadership in nursing is crucial.Nurses are the largest group of healthcare professionals in most settings of service delivery and represent the largest human resource expenditure in most care settings(O’Neill et al.2008).Leadership is defined as the process of influencing people to accomplish goals.Trust is the emotional glue that binds leaders and employees together(Malloch 2002).Major professional and healthcare organisations are emphasising the importance of evidence based practice
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