Leadership and Culture Virginia Armstrong University of Hawaii: West Oahu Abstract Effective leadership requires a delicate utilization of power and authority. Although they possess unique attitudes‚ traits and styles‚ successful leaders strive to promote their organization’s vision and culture and motivate others to embrace it as well. Studies have attempted to define one superior leadership model but have failed due to individual and circumstantial elements. Keywords:
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead In the past 25 years‚ the concept of organizational culture has gained wide recognition as a way to understand human systems. The culture of a group can now be defined as: A pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration‚ that has worked well enough to be considered
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Impact of Leadership Style on Organizational Performance: A Case Study of Nigerian Banks Ojokuku R. M1‚ Odetayo T. A2* and Sajuyigbe A. S3 1 Department of Management and Accounting‚ Ladoke Akintola University of Technology‚ Oyo State‚ Nigeria 2 Department of Accountancy‚ Osun State Polytechnic‚ Iree‚ Osun State‚ Nigeria 3 Department of Business Administration‚ Osun State Polytechnic‚ Iree‚ Osun State‚ Nigeria The study examined the impact of leadership style on organizational performance
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Management and Leadership � PAGE �1� Running Header: MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP Management and Leadership: Military W5 Individual Assignment University of Phoenix Gary Stafford July 12‚ 2008 Management and Leadership: Military Introduction Though popular consensus is that management and leadership are interchangeable terms with the same purpose and meaning nothing could be further from the truth. Management can be defined as influencing one or more person ’s actions and activities through
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Running head: An Analysis of Organizational Culture An Analysis of Organizational Culture Abstract The following is an observation and analysis of the role an organization’s values play on the development and state of its culture. This analysis is based on five interviews of both male and female workers from a privately owned manufacturing company with annual revenues exceeding a billion dollars. In forming my conclusions‚ I will analyze the synthesis of
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Introduction Organizational culture is a set of key values‚ assumptions‚ and beliefs that are shared by an organization’s members. The combined key values create a custom attitude or culture that is followed by the organization’s members. The culture represents the "personality of the organization" (McNamara‚ 1999). Through the observation of employee behavior one can help predict an organization’s culture that influences its business attitude. Organizational culture can also help distinguish two
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Good Sport Organization Organizational structure is the way in which the interrelated groups of an organization are constructed. From a managerial point of view the main concerns are ensuring effective communication and coordination (Daft ‚2004) At Good Sport company effective communication and coordination was a very low priority for management.Another reason that contributed to the ineffectivity of the Good Sport company is the nature of its organizational structure.The Good Sport company
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Organizational Culture Kelli Beuzard MGMT 312 H1FF-F12 Professor Jason Norton November 27‚ 2012 American Electric Power (AEP)‚ founded in 1906 as the American Gas & Electric Company (Business Insights: Essentials‚ 2012). The organization was created when the structure of the electric utility industry in the United States was changing from small‚ individually owned generator plants to consolidated single systems that served a large area (Business Insights: Essentials‚ 2012). Today AEP
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effect on Leadership within the Organizational Landscape. M. Toledo The present and future Leadership Landscape continue to experience significant changes as a result of the rapid and dynamic issues presented by Globalization and Information Computer Technology (ICT). Organizations as part of the globalization era‚ find themselves having to constantly adapt and overcome the accelerated changes which directly impact Organizational Structure
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UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Deepak K. Agrawal‚ College of Business‚ Wayne State College 1111 Main‚ Wayne‚ NE 68787‚ deagra01@wsc.edu ABSTRACT Culture has significant impact on the organization. People of an organization learn the national culture as they grow up. It is very deeply rooted in their lives because of the fact that they learned and followed such culture for a very long period of time. It is also based on shared attitudes‚ beliefs‚ customs‚ written and unwritten rules that
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