Leadership Style Inventory Leadership crises have been brewing since the past century. Evidently, the latest global economic lapses of financial markets raised a higher need for an effective leadership than it had been before. These crises led to a call for contemporary organizations to scrutinize or assess the leadership potential among their employees and new recruitments. Following the current changes in organizational rules and business games, as well as randomly emerging

Good leaders will rely on a variety of input and ideas to help manage and solve crisis situations, and acting ethically in all operations is one way to avoid these situations before they begin. Thus, maintaining the right leadership standards in the organization can help (at least in part) ensure that crisis situations do not occur, and if they do occur, the leaders in place are trained and capable

Leadership Skills Impact International Education CHALLENGES OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION Practical Circumstances of International schools THE IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION What is Effective Leadership for Today's Schools? Challenges of Intercultural Communication Challenges of Differing Cultural Values Importance of the Team Leadership Style LEADERSHIP THEORIES Current Leadership Research Transformational Leadership Skills-Authority Contingency Theories APPLYING LEADERSHIP IN AN INTERNATIONAL SETTING Wagner's "Buy-in" vs. Ownership Understanding the Urgent Need for Change Research confirms what teachers, students, parents and superintendents have long known: the individual school is the key unit

Leadership Theory in a Changing and Globalizing Marketplace Modern business practice is permeated by the complexities of a changing world. The impact of globalization on the cultural makeup of companies, the effects of the global recession on the conventions of daily business and the evolutionary shifts brought on by emergent technology all call for an orientation toward simultaneous stability and adaptability. Only under the stewardship of a qualified, communicative, flexible and

Leadership is a complex process involving the ability of an individual to inspire, motivate and redirect ways of thinking. It refers to the ability to bring out the best in oneself and others. In any set up, there must be rules and regulations to guide the relationships between people and activities. In a set up like an organization, there are goals and objectives that the organization aims to achieve. These

Leadership and Human Resources Sunflower Electric Power Corporation certainly had compelling circumstances that motivated management to pursue cultural change. Having recently undergone debt restructuring and charges of mismanagement and corruption, employee morale was at an all-time low. The major priority for the company was to completely change its corporation culture with a huge emphasis on interpersonal relationships. The culture of Sunflower was a command-and-control culture characterized by authoritative and conservative leadership. This