Essays on Avolio

Jack Nietzche

Promotion is one of the most effective tools that helps to motivate the workers, and subsequently, promote the employees' productivity. This case study provides an insight of a scenario where an employee, Jack Nietzche, is putting an extra effort to acquire that promotion, but the director of the project is reluctant of that incentive. As a result, the dilemma arises as to whether to tell Jack about the situation or not while bearing in mind that this might affect Jack's emotions and might adversely affect the project. If Jack inquires whether the new assignments were made, it is essential ...

It is important to establish critical success factors, especially in attempts to becoming a global leader. Leadership, in its entirety, demands that an individual possesses the desired traits and attributes that would make him or her a visionary, an ethical, wise, proactive and articulate leader, so as to be trusted with the leadership roles in the first place. As such, it is of much essence to establish and focus on the critical success factors going forward. Additionally, a leader, or a prospective global leader, who intends to shape the decisions of the world’s organizations globally, has to appreciate ...

Sustaining employee performance at the workplace goes beyond simply encouraging them to work longer hours by requiring them to report early and leave late. How an employee feels impacts on how well they can perform the work and thus the organization should invest in strategies that help employees to feel better about their job. Employees put in a lot of efforts to ensure that the organization achieves sits targets and thus need to be motivated throughout the process. The two positions chosen include chief finance officer and chief technology officer at the electric car automaker, Tesla.

Performance Management Systems

The process of ...

Leadership is the political, psychological, or social influence of an individual or a group of individuals on a group of other people. Leadership is viewed as both a trait character and in addition a relational concept whereby one individual impacts others. It is a process by which a person influences a group of people to achieve a common goal. A leader has personal skills that give him a distinctive difference and allows him to be listened to and followed by a group of people. Leadership can also be defined as an influential authority based on the relationships the leaders ...

REFLECTIVE REPORT: DEVELOPMENT OF A REWARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Reflective Report: Development of a Reward Management System Overview of the situation The purpose of this report is to reflect on the organisational structure and management system at Sur University College in Oman. Sur University College offers a number of very important services to students and the community alike, but there are certainly struggles that the organisation experiences as well. The college is a diverse learning environment, and the organisation as a whole employs a number of staff, which often has a compounding influence on the overall fluidity and efficiency of internal organisational culture. Underperformance is sometimes a problem ...

REFLECTIVE REPORT: DEVELOPMENT OF A REWARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Reflective Report: Development of a Reward Management System Overview of the situation I reflect my experience at TSB Bank, Benford branch in 2016. The bank was underperforming since the employees were unable to meet the monthly set targets. This situation impacted the bank’s revenue as well as the provision of services to customers. Even after several meetings between the head of operations and employees, the situation worsened each month. A team of specialist was set up to investigate the issue. I was given the mandate to lead this team, and our core task was to identify the problem ...

Introduction

In the recent times, the concepts of transactional and transformational leadership have been considered as the orders of a day. The concept of transformational leadership was introduced by James McGregor in the year 1978. The belief and argument behind the introduction were that transformational leadership is a process in which the followers and the leaders coexist and mutually help each other rise at moral and motivational levels. Further explanation on the same was given in 1985 by Bernard M Bass through his book, “Leadership and performance Beyond Expectations.” There was the development of criteria that must be fulfilled by ...

Managing Organizations & Leading People

Introduction In the current business environment, leadership is considered to go beyond the “manager” title. Leadership is seen to be about whom the employees ate following. Today’s leaders highly influence the behavior of others hence the leaders must be able to show a good example and must have the ability of effectively motivation others to follow them and work harder for the fulfillment of organizational goals (Warner, 2012). This is because human resource is considered as the most vital asset currently and their management is what determines the success of a firm. Effective management of human resource requires ...

Introduction

German sociologist Max Weber defined a charismatic leader as someone that espouses extraordinary characteristics and whose vision inspires several others (Avolio & Yammarino, 2002, p. 168). Charismatic leaders are capable of gathering masses in their support and leading major political, religious or social movement. But, such large following can be positive or negative for their opposition and some of them might even take criminal routes to achieve their objectives. In the present world, Barak Obama is a charismatic leader who is seen as a positive charismatic leader. Obama led a major political movement and brought the majority of the nation ...

Introduction

The capability to shape and develop the leadership abilities of the members of the organization so as to fulfill organizational needs and demands is a complicated and challenging component of the general leadership development process. Leaders are responsible for the achievement of organizational goals, as well as for their followers' performance needed to attain the desired outcome. However, this is not an easy task. Widget PLC has problems with their leadership as revealed by decreasing employee motivation and managerial performance. This paper discusses and analyzes the relevance of transformational leadership and authentic leadership to the problem of Widget PLC. ...

Evolution of Leadership Definition: An Outline

Introduction This paper is a historical analysis of how the definition of power has evolved and how leadership conceptually differs from power.

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(a). Leadership Most leadership definitions have tended to lean into any of the following three principles or is multifaceted to acknowledge the multiple principles.

Internal qualities of a leader

Leaders behaviors Leaders traits and context (b). Power

This section will demonstrate that Power is different from the person exercising it by describing sources of power.

Conclusion Power and leadership are conceptually different. Leadership is a social phenomenon that has been examined historically by both contemporary and classical western and eastern researchers. This paper is a historical analysis of how the definition of power has historically evolved and how leadership conceptually ...

Introduction

The article, “Discovering your authentic leadership,” by Peter Sims, Diana Meyer, Andrew N. McLean, and Bill George delves into the subject of being a leader that one is capable of being, that is, an authentic leader. The authors describe the way one can develop as an authentic leader. In particular, the article exemplifies the way an individual who follows his/her internal compass can essentially turn out to be an authentic leader. According to the authors, discovering our authentic leadership calls for a commitment to developing ourselves. In other words, developing authentic leadership starts with an understanding of self. The ...

Chapter 1

1.0. Introduction The researcher followed a survey which was given out to the employees within magic care solutions care home. The researcher seeks to find out if the management within magic care is very effective. It was done through an analysis method which comprises of qualitative and quantitative. The analysis was built on primary data which was carried out through doing a questionnaire on effective leadership within magic care homes. The questionnaires were given out to staff within the care home. The results of the respondents was converted to qualitative data Leadership styles can be different with all different ...

Personal Leadership Development Plan

STEP 1: MY GOALS I am an accounting major at college level. My pursuit of the course is due to my passion for numbers as I seek professional qualifications in accounting. Ultimately, after the completion of my degree, I would want to operate at the most senior positions of financial organizations as I seek to impart my knowledge into the business and help in managing people. However before I attain the ultimate goal, there one major hurdle that I would like to go over- Internship at a big four firm. I believe that training at the highest level will ...

TRANSFORMATIONAL V. TRANSACTIONAL:

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS COM221-18 Technical Report Writing Abstract

Abstract 2

List of Figures and Tables 4 Introduction 5 Methodology 7 Results of the Study 9 I. Charisma and the Transformational Leader 9 II. Transactional Management-By-Exception 10 III. Distinctive Behavioral Traits: Emotion v. Non-Emotion 11 IV. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation 12 V. Poor Attitude at Work 13

Discussion of Results 15

I. Significance of the Charismatic Personality Trait 15 II. Management-by-Exception Unsuccessful with Employee Motivation 15 III. Distinctive Behavioral Traits 16 IV. Significance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Identification 16 V. Poor Attitude at Work 17 Concluding Remarks and Final Recommendation 18

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Appendix B 22 Glossary 23 ...

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Introduction:

In the recent modern day business environment, there has emerged a very strong need for the organizations to make leaders that can steer the way of the organization through the competitive market. With a very specific reference to performance oriented organization, the concept of organizational leadership is dual focused. This means that the organizational leadership is meant for two purposes; one is to ensure that the organizational members of the lower rank i.e. workers and employees get protected in their rights and get empowered to perform their jobs more effectively. Second is to ensure that the expectations ...

Abstract

Leadership is an important factor for the organizational success, increased productivity of employees, job satisfaction, and customer satisfaction. Leaders are the very beacon of light that direct their subordinates in the right path towards achievement and success. Two leadership styles that are mainly the topic of discussion in the literature include transactional and transformational leadership. The studies available in the literature show mixed results as regards the effectiveness of these two leaderships. Both the leaderships are associated with increased job satisfaction and performance of employees. However, transactional leadership is more suited for competition intensive industry, whereas transformational leadership is ...

Leadership Strategies for a Changing World

I have just been appointed as the District Manager of an electronics company, a position which I have been eagerly anticipating for a long time. Having recently been appointed to this new leadership position at a company which I have wanted to work at for years, I can easily see in my first days that there are substantial organizational cultural problems that must be overcome. While the organization is extremely viable, there are power struggles between managers and an organizational culture that does not properly inspire its workers.

There is often a sense of friction between middle management and department heads, as ...

Introduction

The report includes a speculative summary which is highly rendered by the project submitter. The report includes the rules and exemption to work with an accommodated job in United Kingdom. The summary and the report includes the rules and regulations which are necessary as per working in the UK company, and it also discuss about the Tax redemption charges as per the incomes basis of an individual. The report even includes the taxation of any employee working in a UK based company. The rules and regulations are also jotted down to make the project analyst know about the main factual finding ...

Movenpick restaurant

Introduction

Movenpick restaurant is an organization offering services and products to the respective customers within the market. The technological changes and the increasing trends in the hotel industry depict the need of the organization to develop dynamic approaches that reflects such changes. This depicts the essence of having effective and efficient transformational leadership and embrace organization changes within the industry towards creating a competitive advantage. Transformational leader’s embraces unique qualities that define their leadership style as availed in the preceding analysis that incorporates the respective entities under the leadership style and the organizational change based approaches. Having worked for the ...

Part 1: Brief description of Cardio-Metric and history

Cardio-Metric, a start-up company founded by Carlos Sanchez and Chris Ward, began its operations in Minneapolis in 2002 starting with a simplified blood pressure (BP) monitor for use by patients in their homes with signals sent to their physicians in the real time through internet. The company succeeded in rising venture funding of $ 6 million in 2003 in the first round of institutional financing. Daniel Kim was hired in 2002, to develop business plan, raise venture capital and to facilitate commercialization of the product. In 2004, the company launched the home market version of its product which was well received by ...

QUANTITATIVE (Statistical) Studies Only

This Research Plan form, version 2.42, must be completed and reviewed before taking steps to collect data and write the dissertation. In the School of Business and Technology, its satisfactory completion satisfies dissertation milestone 5, indicating that the RP proposal has passed the “scientific merit review,” part of the IRB process. Before going any further, review carefully the Research Plan Instructions, v2.4, available on iGuide. It will be difficult to complete the RP without using the Instructions.

Specialization Chair’s Approval after Section 1

When you have completed Section 1 along with initial references in section 8, send the RP to your mentor for review. ...

Problem identified

Working in teams is an extremely important concept and requirement that can contribute to organizational development and in this case, there is lack of team work which can lead to problems in the organization (Avolio, et.al., 2009). Lack of team work can result in lack of leadership and direction for teams. The idea of team dialogue is to hunt for the best possible way and id that is the right things to do. Team dialogues tend to create a large knowledge pool due to which the dialogue and the individual participants benefit. Tiam has been presenting himself as an authoritative ...

Transformational leadership symbolizes the essential and significant quality for the successful management of the transformational changes in the organization (Bass & Avolio, 1994). A transformational leader with his exceptional qualities can properly lead an organization help the people to achieve their ultimate goal. Sam Walton, who is the founder of Wal-Mart, is one of those transformational leaders, who have utilized every opportunity in order to inspire and lead the people for achievement of the ultimate goal (Daft & Marcic, 2012). Sam Walton is regarded as a transformational leader due to the qualities such as his method of appreciation for the employees. Sam ...

Abstract

This document includes the concepts and themes of leadership as presented in the book namely Transformational Leadership by Bernard M. Bass and Ronald E. Riggio. In addition, the principles of managements as discussed by Andrew J. Dubrin have also been incorporated in the paper. In this document, there is an argument presented by these gentlemen on leadership by using separate cases of different leaders around the world. For instance, the case study presented by Bernard M. Bass and Ronald E. Riggio are Herb Kelleher as CEO and founder of Southwest Airlines’ success story while on the other hand, ...

Leadership Theories Leadership is a process that a group or an individual impacts a group of individuals to reach a certain or common goal (Parent et. al., n.d.). According to Parent et. al., (n.d.) the literature concerning leadership has transformed from the trait or behavioral approach to the transformational. This change also includes the transactional and charismatic leadership approaches (Parent et. al., n.d.). According to Kouzes & Posner (2007), on the other hand, Leadership is a chance that can occur at any place or any time. It may happen in a huge or small house, the mall, the school, or in any group. This ...

Today, if you approach anyone and asks if they are aware of their self, probability indicates that, most people will respond affirmatively. Statistics show that 75% will commence by telling their names, intellectual status, and job titles. !5% will indicate their repertoire of temperaments of likes and dislikes. The rest will describe their self-awareness in the context of oneness with the divine spirit or universe. However, do they understand the concept of self-awareness and its operations? The self-awareness discussed in this paper propels deeper than the set of beliefs and ideologies. The art of self-awareness and continued self-development ...

Robert Green Leaf coined the phrase ‘Servant Leadership.’ Servant leadership model is something that is not really new in today’s world. The Chinese ruler Lao-Tzu was said to be one of the earliest servant leaders living between 570 and 490 B.C. Tao Te Ching says that the highest type of rulership is one whose existence is barely known to the subjects. The Indian book on political science ‘Arthashastra,’ authored by Chanakya says a king is someone who is not to please himself but his subjects, and that a king is a paid leader enjoying the resources of the state and the ...

The concept of power is complex based on the fact that it is mainly associated with entities such as wealth, politics, and authority. The concept behind the notion on power is the impact o influencing the actions or the decisions of others within the society. The indicated approach in relation to the respective effects of power and the influence reflected by the leaders to the followers stipulated the implications that the leaders provide within a given community. Researchers argue that leaders need power towards influencing others within an organization or a country. The notion that they are always on power indicates ...

Introduction

Security of networks is key when it comes to protecting data in organizations. This is why more companies are taking interest in securing their company networks in a bid to protect their company secrets. Governments are doing the same in protecting national and government facilities and data. In this paper, we are going to look at the specific ways in which different types o networks are protected and how they can complement each other. We are also going to look at the ups and downs of each and try to establish whether they can work together or whether they ...

Leadership and Workplace

Introduction Leadership is involves the diligence of duty in social influence and team work by an individual in accomplishment of a particular goal. From a psychological view, it varies much from the perennial understanding of being followed and providing guidelines and direction to others. This sets apart the terminology ‘leadership’ and ‘effective leadership’. While leadership could be mistaken for the feared boss roles with highhandedness and a stern persona, effective leadership focuses on the delivery, wellbeing and productivity of the team one leads. To understand these styles, there are numerous theories of leadership that have come up with time and all ...

The essence of leadership can be summed up as forming good relationships with the people you lead – both between members and with members and the leader. Collaboration is the essence of good leadership, utilizing everyone’s strengths and diminishing their weaknesses. No strategy for effective leadership is the same between two organizations or two leaders – the attitudes and strengths of each member of the team has to be taken into account, as well as the objectives and efficiencies of the organization itself. My definition of leadership works well with good followship, which involves having members of a group who ...

Summary of the Article

The article entitled “High-Performance Work Systems and Occupational Safety” written by Zacharatos, Barling and Iverson presented relevant issues concerning an investigation on any apparent relationship between high performance work systems (HPWS) and occupational safety. The authors reportedly conducted two separate studies to validate their contention. As disclosed, one study that was conducted solicited the participation of company human resource and safety directors from a total number of 138 organizations. The second study allegedly involved 189 front-line employees from two different organizations. The study initially started with a brief review of related literature citing as authoritative and secondary sources. The whole study ...

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Introduction4 - Problem Background..4 - Literature Review5 - Problem Analysis7 - Recommendations.10

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Appendices.13 References..14 Summary The current paper consists of introduction, four main parts, and conclusion. There was a brief summary of the case study proposed for analysis described in the introductory part. The case relates small manufacturing company – Electron – that experienced difficulties in managing work of manufacturing employees. The Company needed advice of how to effectively organize work in the newly formed team with older employees exerting excessive control over the new workers. In the first part the problem background was ...

Leadership Styles 3

Introduction 3 Transformational Leadership 3 Servant Leadership 3 Transformational Leadership VS Servant Leadership, Comparison and Contrast 4 Relevance of Transformational and Servant Leadership with Founders Day Presentation 7 My Ideal Leadership Style 10

References 13

Leadership Styles Introduction Leadership is one of the most widely discussed subjects in both academia and organizational practices. In last twenty years, numerous definitions of leadership are elucidated but yet it’s hard to classify this key term comprehensively. However, in a most generic and simplified manner, leadership is defined as ‘organizing or leading a group of people to accomplish a common ...

Introduction

With Almadina is an investment house established in 1998, with a capital of 10 million Omani Rials and five employees’ in a 50 square meter office. the company was established to serve as a local stockbroker. Today, after more than 14 years, the company has diversified into, real-estate development, insurance, logistics, and franchising, private equity placement and recently into sharia compliant products. The name of almadina is now well known in many industries across the nation, it has been quite successful in most of the ventures and establishments across the board. Using the s-7 framework, we will evaluate seven elements in almadina, ...

As a general manager at air conditioning service repair and Installation Company, leadership is all about integrity. To be an effective leader one should do whatever you ask other people to do. Lead others by example. Although to be an effective leader one requires to have the knowledge and skills, showing others what to do is the best way to lead. Others might argue that great leaders are born but great leaders are also created. The ones who are willing to learn and put into practice whatever they learn.

Blanchard and Hersey have classified leadership styles into four depending on ...

Practical Implications of Transactional and Transformational Leadership

Leadership Styles: Practical Implications of Transactional and Transformational Leadership

Leadership is a skill that is often described as a form of social influence because it is the process of influencing an individual or organizing a group of people with the aim of reaching a common goal. Early research in leadership considered only the leader’s traits as determinants of successful leadership, but modern research recognizes several factors that enable leaders to influence their followers. Rather than observing leadership as a natural and fixed occurrence, contemporary theories and research on effective leadership state that it is a skill which can be learned by developing various ...

Workplace behaviour is a common topic of modern psychological studies behaviour within an organisation is an important aspect of human psychological functioning. Work psychology is mainly concerned with several relationships, but the main issues are the relationship between the individual and the individual’s work and the relationships among the members of an organisation (J. Arnold et al., 2005). Other areas of interest for work psychology are personnel selection, education, performance appraisals, organisational development, personal development, workplace safety, and motivation (J. Arnold et al., 2005). Despite the amount of different factors that define workplace behaviour, knowing leadership skills, employee motivation ...

Ethics in leadership

7.In your view, what is leadership? Why is it important and why is studying it filled with pitfall? Leadership is an important and crucial part of any management operation. It is intrinsically the ability to lead others and to make them feel that authority is there not to be trifled with. It is obviously one of the most important methods of management in every sense and it cannot be felt enough especially when confronted with hard and difficult situations. Obviously leadership cannot be confined totally to one category or another but it is important to study also as ...

Transformational leadership theory and practice (Head of Training and Staff Development Department)

The concept of transformational leadership was introduced by James MacGregor Burns in 1978. It is based on mutual support between the leader and those he is leading with the end result being a positively transformed group and an efficient leader. Transformational leadership has aspects of selfless leadership; it brings change to people and organizations; instilling vision, insight, and understanding, in order that change occurs in their minds and hearts; hence building solid ethics of congruent behavior, beliefs, ethos, principles, or core values; that would foster permanent, self-perpetuating, and momentous changes. A leader therefore strives to provide his/her people of what ...

Leadership has captured a wide spread of attention it is believed to be either transactional or transformational. Transactional leaders are those who lead others to a social exchange according to Kotlyar & Karakowsky (2006). Transformational leaders are those who stimulate and can inspire other to achieve extraordinary outcome and by doing so they develop their own leadership capacity. Transformational leaders guide their followers by empowering and guiding them to achieving certain goals in their lives (Kouzes & Posner, 1999). Leaders are always aware of what they value, and they do recognize the importance of ethical behavior. For one to be an outstanding ...