Path-Goal Theory (Robert House) Summary Study questions: • What are the two primary goals of a leader/manager? • Think of the most common categories of situations that might prevent workers from achieving these goals? • For each category of goals‚ what can the leader do to remove the barrier and get the worker back on the path toward the goal? • When might people prefer directive leadership (relate this to locus of control) House proposes that the leader can affect the performance‚ satisfaction
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Under the individual evaluation methods of merit rating‚ employees are evaluated one at a time without comparing them with other employees in the organization. (a) Confidential report: It is mostly used in government organizations. It is a descriptive report prepared‚ generally at the end of every year‚ by the employee’s immediate superior. The report highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the subordinate. The report is not databased. The impressions of the superior about the subordinate
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Art of Delegation A manager alone cannot perform all the tasks assigned to him. In order to meet the targets‚ the manager should delegate authority. Delegation of Authority means division of authority and powers downwards to the subordinate. Delegation is about entrusting someone else to do parts of your job. Delegation of authority can be defined as subdivision and sub-allocation of powers to the subordinates in order to achieve effective results. Elements of Delegation Authority - in context
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Katz‚ Robert L. “Skills of an Effective Administrator‚” Harvard Business Review: 1955. Retrieved from: McMahon‚ Timothy‚ J. Leaderships Classics. pp. 22-35. Robert Katz identifies the selection and training of good administration as one of American industry’s most pressing problems. Katz tells us that at the root of the problem is the industry’s search for the traits and qualities that will identify the “ideal executive.” In spending so much time looking at personality and one’s value set‚ companies
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Right man‚ wrong job Introduction- 1-Deewakar Hansa - vice president of catalyst solution (consultancy) 2-Amit Roy-business head. 3-Dave - country head. 4-Keith - Asia pacific head. 5-Boss -who sits at London? 6- Commercial director. 7- David jones - business advisor to Dave. Dave asked Deewakar Hansa to hire Amit Roy because he knew that‚ he could turn around the fortune of the business. For xanites India was on top priority for outsourcing the call center operation. Dave clearly
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Lilibeth June 26‚ 2014 VIEWPOINT The Vice President STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Mr. Brewster as being the Misunderstanding in the case was promoted to a position as the Assistant Product Manager which he was relatively unfamiliar. He wasn’t given enough time to know more of his field. And shortly a meeting was called by the Vice President (Mr. Smith) to all product managers to discuss marketing strategies. Since his immediate superior‚ the Product Manager (Mr. Reynolds) can’t attend
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Module 5 EMBEDDED WAVELET CODING Version 2 ECE IIT‚ Kharagpur Lesson 13 Zerotree Approach. Version 2 ECE IIT‚ Kharagpur Instructional Objectives At the end of this lesson‚ the students should be able to: 1. Explain the principle of embedded coding. 2. Show the parent-child relationships between subbands of same orientation. 3. Define significance and insignificance of DWT coefficients with respect to a threshold. 4. Define zerotree and zerotree root. 5. Perform successive approximation quantization
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CASE SUMMARY Lok Kim Sun is an estate manager who tried to single-handedly managing 28‚500 acres of estate with 2500 employees. Even though he work his way up to his position now as an estate manager‚ he is extremely afraid of making mistake. This could be partly because of his immediate superior attitude‚ Henry Davidson who tends to look down to others and tends to adopt a very autocratic military attitude. Lok feels that he must know every details of the estate operation so that he can thoroughly
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Central Luzon Doctor’s Hospital Educational Institution Tarlac City Topic: Performance Appraisal (1) According to Edwin Flippo‚ "Performance Appraisal is the systematic‚ periodic and impartial rating of an employee’s excellence‚ in matters pertaining to his present job and his potential for a better job." (2) According to Dale Beach‚ "Performance Appraisal is the systematic evaluation of the individual with regards to his or her performance on the job and his potential for development."
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‘William I changed little in the government and administration of England’. How far do you agree? When William‚ duke of Normandy‚ conquered England he had a new problem of how to control his new‚ and very different country. No drastic changes are evident‚ as it would appear that William was able to use the basis of the pre-existing Anglo-Saxon government. S. B Chrimes opinion of William’s changes to government agrees with this‚ saying that the early Norman government was an "elaboration rather
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