1000 Results for Essays and Research Papers on "Leadership"
Leadership Theory in a Changing and Globalizing
Words: 5806 Length: 20 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 12975181Leadership 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…… [Read More]
Leadership Portfolio Political Tactics Are Essential for
Words: 904 Length: 3 Pages Document Type: Research Paper Paper #: 26191211Leadership Portfolio
Political tactics are essential for quality leadership. It is important to be tactful in all situations, and to understand the confounding variables that can impact communication clarity. Politics refers to skillful communications and strategic decision-making. Compromises are critical to good politics. For example, we were working with a large team of over 25 people. Each…… [Read More]
Leadership Team Building and Communication
Words: 1951 Length: 6 Pages Document Type: Term Paper Paper #: 81184332Leadership, Team Building & Communication
Leadership theories continue to evolve as the complexity, nature and scope of organizations shift from command-and-control structures to more agile frameworks for managing change. The pace of disruptive innovation is accelerating, forcing reliance on the latest theories of leadership to keep organizations competitive in rapidly changing markets. The intent of this analysis…… [Read More]
Leadership Is the Process of Directing the
Words: 1913 Length: 6 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 95558872Leadership is the process of directing the behavior of others toward the achievement of some general objectives. Effective leadership is very important for molding a group of people into a team, shaping them into a force that serves as a sustainable business benefit. Effective leaders have an inspirational vision. Forethought and change expectation is their hallmark. Leaders know how to…… [Read More]
Leadership Theories the Role of Leadership in
Words: 2434 Length: 8 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 96934258Leadership Theories
The role of leadership in business organizations
Many leadership theories have been applied, in different organizations, to help in attainment of the objectives of the organization. Leadership theories are many, but the most common include the trait theory, which assumes that different people inherit the qualities and also traits of leadership and…… [Read More]
Leadership Is Defined as the Procedures That
Words: 1386 Length: 4 Pages Document Type: Term Paper Paper #: 60931454Leadership is defined as the procedures that individuals use as authority over others to achieve an objective. The action also provides direction in a manner that makes an organization more coherent and cohesive.
Three-Skill Approach
This approach refers to three skills including human, technical, and conceptual, which form the fundamental personal skills required in…… [Read More]
Leadership and Organizations Bill Gates and Steve
Words: 1757 Length: 6 Pages Document Type: Case Study Paper #: 25010454Leadership and Organizations: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
The theories of leadership date way back to when dynasties existed and people were led by kings. The leader took control and made decisions whenever disputes arose. The question of leadership qualities may not have been all that important then, but people still considered some to be better leaders…… [Read More]
Leadership Can the Definition of Leadership Be
Words: 1070 Length: 3 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 38493510Leadership
Can the definition of "leadership" be applied to the concept of "management"? Leadership is defined as a process whereby an individual has influence over others in terms of achieving a predetermined, common goal. This paper takes the position that leadership should be part of what a manager / management does in a workplace environment; leadership is…… [Read More]
Leadership Evaluation Introduction to Award Program Any
Words: 1610 Length: 6 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 20036120Leadership Evaluation
Introduction to Award Program
Any discussion of employee incentive programs will make use of many different terms, most of which will mean different things to different people. In order to ensure the discussion has apples-to-apples clarity, this paper begins with a basic lexicon.
Employee incentives are a form of…… [Read More]
Leadership in a Changing World
Words: 1119 Length: 4 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 21736982Leadership in Telecommuting Teams
Leading a Changing World In paper, exploring emerging topic challenge leadership changing world work. Choose a specific topic Module 12.4 Landy Conte (2013). Provide overview topic, including: - Why chose topic - Why topic important study leadership, field I/O psychology, career; - And a review research articles focusing topic.
Telecommuting…… [Read More]
Leadership Theories and Approaches Leadership According to
Words: 918 Length: 3 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 1912380Leadership Theories and Approaches
Leadership
According to Kurt Lewin, all leaders fall into three basic categories: autocratic, participative, and democratic. I would describe my current supervisor as basically autocratic in her demeanor, although in a moderately benevolent way. I work as a respiratory therapist in a hospital. My supervisor must ensure that patients are…… [Read More]
Leadership Enhancing Lessons Experience According to Johnson
Words: 1315 Length: 4 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 69084187Leadership: Enhancing Lessons Experience
According to Johnson, & Giorgis (2002), Leadership is the process in which an individual influences actions of others towards common goals, Formulates policies, strategies, and influence people towards achievement of the same strategies. Over the past decades, various changes in the world have led to various definitions of leadership. The fall of the…… [Read More]
Leadership Technical Interpersonal and Conceptual Skills Interpersonal
Words: 1284 Length: 4 Pages Document Type: Term Paper Paper #: 65951852Leadership
Technical, interpersonal, and conceptual skills
Interpersonal skills entail knowing how to interact with others. No employee desires to have a boss who is inconsiderate or rude or one who has poor human skills. All these could reduce productivity and employee morale. Managers with effective human skills tend to have subordinates who have positive…… [Read More]
Leadership on the Surface Military Leadership and
Words: 1558 Length: 5 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 67584746Leadership
On the surface, Military Leadership and Virtual Leadership seem like polar opposites. Military leadership is old, entrenched, and traditional with little flexibility in terms of normative behavior. On the other hand, virtual leadership is new, highly flexible, and sometimes signals a flat organizational hierarchy. Military leadership cannot exhibit a flat organizational hierarchy, because effective military leadership…… [Read More]
Leadership in Organizations Organizational Leadership
Words: 12322 Length: 40 Pages Document Type: Capstone Project Paper #: 65691491Leadership, according to La Monica (1938), is when a person has authority that is recognized by others, and the person has followers/subordinates under them, who believe that the person will assist them in attaining certain goals (carrying out specific objectives for the followers). Furthermore, anyone that is willing to assist and help others could be referred to as a leader…… [Read More]
Leadership Is a Complex Process Involving the
Words: 997 Length: 3 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 98112377Leadership 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…… [Read More]
Leadership a Philosophy of Leadership
Words: 1243 Length: 4 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 53293767 This boss was lazy. Simply put, where Uncle Gail was prepared not only to do his job but to make sure everybody else was doing theirs as well, this boss at Hardee's was unwilling to even do his own job, much less help anybody else.
The entire crew hated him for that. Many newcomers were there for…… [Read More]
Leadership Three Theories Three Centuries
Words: 2027 Length: 5 Pages Document Type: Term Paper Paper #: 14621831e. leadership (Pruyne, 2001, p. 6), but also that "determining how to abstract a set of leadership concepts that apply across contexts without sacrificing an understanding of how the conditions and qualities involved in leadership vary among those same contexts" remained elusive (Pruyne, 2001, p. 7). Experts provided extended series of examples, mostly from the 20th century, demonstrating how leadership…… [Read More]
Leadership Case Study Michael Alfonso
Words: 2936 Length: 10 Pages Document Type: Case Study Paper #: 69890997By integrating aspects of transformational leadership into his leadership, Alonso would have inspired his crew to follow him while also becoming leaders by themselves. However, this could have only been made possible if his thoughts, feelings, and actions were consistent. As a leader of change Alfonso should have shown some element of connection to himself, the world, and the people…… [Read More]
Leadership SME Leadership Strategy From the Top
Words: 2109 Length: 8 Pages Document Type: Article Review Paper #: 92981450Leadership SME
Leadership Strategy from the Top Down: Lessons from the Boardroom in Small and Medium Enterprises
Leadership and management theories and strategies have proliferated at a rapid rate in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as organizations have grown larger and more complex and have faced pressures of a much faster pace of business.…… [Read More]
Leadership and Management Training Guide Leadership and
Words: 1224 Length: 4 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 91318932Leadership and Management Training Guide:
Leadership and management are terms that have been used interchangeably as many people assume that they are similar despite of their fundamental differences. The main reason attributed to this trend is the fact that these concepts must go hand in hand because they are complementary and linked together. Actually, attempts to separate…… [Read More]
Leadership Team Leadership Analysis the Launch of
Words: 988 Length: 3 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 82855521Leadership
Team Leadership Analysis
The launch of any new product is a highly collaborative, team-centric activity that requires the orchestration of efforts across many different departments. Leading a product introduction requires use of many of the skills and concepts of the Team leadership Model. The intent of this analysis is to use the concepts…… [Read More]
Leadership Styles in Many Ways the United
Words: 2527 Length: 8 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 10321958Leadership Styles
In many ways the United States offer the ideal case study for examining different leadership styles, because its particular process of election and governance presents opportunities for each leadership style to flourish. In short, while the election itself favors a charismatic leadership style, the success of the executive branch depends on a transformational leadership style,…… [Read More]
Leadership Models Literature Review of Situational Leadership
Words: 1331 Length: 4 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 11741068Leadership Models
LITERATURE REVIEW OF SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Situational leadership is a leadership paradigm proposed by Hersey and Blanchard as an alternative to the simplistic trait theories of leadership in vogue at the time. The main feature of the situational leadership theory of Hersey and Blanchard is that leaders are able to adapt their leadership…… [Read More]
Leadership Is a Process That Helps in
Words: 3349 Length: 11 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 26347063Leadership is a process that helps in directing and mobilizing people. It has for the past 100 years been a subject of many studies. These studies have come up with theories of the nature and exercise of leadership. Some of these theories include trait theories of leadership, theories of emergent leadership, leadership style theories, psychodynamic theories, and the path goal…… [Read More]
Leadership Defining an Ethical Leader Jeffrey Immelt
Words: 2221 Length: 8 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 27684435Leadership
Defining an Ethical Leader
Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric
The nature of leadership is multifaceted and often requires the continual mastery of new skills, insights, intelligence and perspectives to stay effective over the long-term. Such is the nature of ethical leadership, which requires a steadfast focus on a core set of…… [Read More]
Leadership Style of the CEO of Google
Words: 1480 Length: 5 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 12308832Leadership style of the CEO of Google Inc. using situational leadershi
Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at the Stanford University in 1995 and by 1996, they built first search initially called BackRub, which used links to establish the importance of the individual web pages. They continued working on the search engine, and in 1998, they founded…… [Read More]
Leadership Style and Decision-Making Style
Words: 2975 Length: 6 Pages Document Type: 'Discussion and Results' chapter Paper #: 91876667However this philosophy has been proved to be wrong. Besides a few traits like intuition and sensing, all the leadership traits involve our conscious decisions and behaviors. A person can adopt any leadership and decision making style to be effective and productive based on the work environment and the people he is working with. Here are some recommendations for the…… [Read More]
Leadership Research Models of Leadership and Management
Words: 1855 Length: 5 Pages Document Type: Research Paper Paper #: 18446774Leadership Research
Models of leadership and management
Comparison and contrast of leadership models
Application of leadership model: Case of Mark Zuckerberg
Table 1- Leadership Table
Leadership Research
Leadership in public and private sector businesses is important for the growth of these businesses.…… [Read More]
Leadership Effectiveness
Words: 1506 Length: 5 Pages Document Type: Research Paper Paper #: 57898830Leadership Effectiveness
Leadership
Leadership Qualities
Effective Leader
Sir Richard Branson
Branson Leadership Style in Terms of Leadership Models
The for Framework Approach
Structural
Human Resource
Political
Symbolic Framework
Leadership Path Goal Theory the Boy Scouts
Words: 2436 Length: 8 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 16812245Leadership Path Goal Theory
The Boy Scouts" using the "path- goal theory
Leadership theories
Path Goal Theory
Explain how the theory works and include an example
Explain the effect of power and influence that leaders have on followers in the organization
Are…… [Read More]
Leadership Style Inventory Leadership Crises Have Been
Words: 1729 Length: 5 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 63615693Leadership 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…… [Read More]
Leadership Two of the Most Pressing Issues
Words: 1201 Length: 4 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 43096876Leadership
Two of the most pressing issues in corporate leadership today include gender equality and labor rights. In "Women See Slow Progress in Leadership," Gay (2013) cites numerous empirical studies showing that the glass ceiling remains nearly impenetrable at the highest levels of management. The report cites the work-life balance ideal as the most common reason offered…… [Read More]
Leadership Sustainability in Leadership Current Global Occurrences
Words: 2770 Length: 8 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 23216874Leadership
Sustainability in Leadership
Current global occurrences have posed a great challenge to the continued existence of living things on earth. At this stage in the history of man, humanity is struggling with a lot of challenges; and these challenges are not restricted to region or race. Problems associated with climate change, increased rate…… [Read More]
Leadership Assessment Definition of Leader
Words: 1585 Length: 6 Pages Document Type: Term Paper Paper #: 28602647 Sun Tzu informs that we cannot punish people until they feel loyalty to us: namely, until they consider themselves members of our group.
10. Keep them guessing
This quality may be pertinent only to leaders of a business / corporation. Her Sun Tzu advises keeping one's strategies and plans concealed from one's competitor so…… [Read More]
Leadership What Makes a Good
Words: 913 Length: 3 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 64952044How effective leaders design their behaviors is important, because it essentially rubs off onto the group they are inspiring. This can be conducted through using motivation as a way to mold the behavior of the group to the most optimal level (House & Aditya 1997). Yet, there are a number of potential limitations within this theoretical structure as well. Mainly,…… [Read More]
Leadership Styles Relationship- and Task-Based Leadership Styles
Words: 889 Length: 3 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 14320540Leadership Styles
Relationship- and Task-Based Leadership Styles
In leading groups and organizations, managers and leaders alike adopt different kinds of styles or approaches to be able to achieve specific objectives. These objectives could include establishing rapport and cohesion within a group, be it from a team or organizational level. Another objective that a leader…… [Read More]
Leadership the Role of Leadership in Excellence
Words: 947 Length: 3 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 51666513Leadership
The Role of Leadership in Excellence Initiatives
Leadership is often thought of as a quality that is innate to certain individuals, such as CEOs and Presidents who have demonstrated their tireless commitment to a specific cause. This belief is not entirely true, however, and must be examined so that what leadership entails can…… [Read More]
Leadership Experiences Leadership Stands Out as One
Words: 1002 Length: 3 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 5635558Leadership Experiences
Leadership stands out as one of the most discussed topics in both business and organizations. It is almost impossible to turn on a television, open a newspaper, or attend a conference without an issue touching on leadership occurs. Several definitions have been put forth in a bid to explore the concept and elements of leadership.…… [Read More]
Leadership Team Building and Communication
Words: 2326 Length: 6 Pages Document Type: Research Paper Paper #: 64612313Leadership, Team Building, And Communication
Leadership, Communication and Team Building
Examine traditional, contemporary, and emerging leadership theories and interpersonal forms of power. Create a profile of the ideal leader for the company you researched in which you describe the most appropriate leadership characteristics in terms of leadership style and interpersonal forms of power; and…… [Read More]
