Leadership requires you to evaluate yourself and your effectiveness so that you can convince employees, partners, vendors, lenders and customers to follow you in pursuit of your vision. Understanding various leadership theories can help you choose your leadership approach. Trait Theory One of the ...
Describe how a manager or coach could use the process of self-fulfilling prophecy to enhance an individual's performance. Explain all the elements of the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy. Explain the various knowledge management models.
What are the five basic functions of management? Explain some of the specific activities involved in each function. Is one function more important for human resource management? Explain how understanding the various levels of authority can assist you t...
Each interview started by asking participants to consider the values that were important to them and how these were applied across their various roles. The further questions were then presented in two steps according to our two research questions. To address the first research question, participants...
Recently a research carried out at the University of Lausanne evaluated about 400 business leaders in 30 different countries working in various industries and businesses. The research involved making each leader take IQ tests and also then evaluating them on their leadership style and effectiveness base...
This research investigates the extent to which men and women differ in their orientations on various issues, such as ethics (Smith and Rogers, 2000), career drivers (Chia, 2003), job turnover intentions (Mynatt et al., 1997), sexual harassment (Nichols et al., 1997), behavioural attitudes...
Unfortunately, many of them have overlooked some important fundamentals; that is, they ignore the effects on stu- dents and fail to use scientific, functionally based definitions in their models. Following are brief descriptions of some of the various behavior management models used in schools....
Understanding Society is an initiative funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and various Government Departments, with scientific leadership by the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, and survey delivery by NatCen Social Research and Kantar Public. The research ...
Explain the cost leadership strategy. What will be an ideal response? Strategy: Strategy refers to a plan or approach used by a firm or individual to attain its goals and objectives. Having a strategy is vital since it helps an entity to remain focused on the goal. Also, in compe...
In the context of business, explain the concept of transformational leadership. In what way do transformational leaders affect subordinates? Describe the various organisational objectives and their corresponding mentoring initiatives. Explain the concept of departmentalized accounting and the importance of coll...