Essays on Organizational Studies

Foundation Course – Name

Abstract Information technologies are the core components of any organizational studies. Since this phenomenon was introduced into organizational processes, it brought numerous advantages. Incorporation of information technologies into existing business environment has become an indispensable necessity of modern reality due to an ability of informational systems to grant a broad spectrum of opportunities and benefits. Maximization of efficiency, improved services, enhanced manufacturing capacities and supply chain lead to the industry’s growth and economic prosperity. This could hardly be possible without the new information and technological determinants, implemented to control and speed up the everyday business routines. Eventually, information ...

MANAGEMENT PSYCHOLOGY

Introduction Modern science contains significant range of different areas of knowledge that focus on people in the workplace and can potentially influence practice of organizations. Among these areas Hollway (1991) singles out scientific management, occupational industrial and social psychology, as well as human factors, human relations and organizational behavior (p.4). Above-mentioned areas play a crucial role in management studies, because concepts and approaches that are used in these areas of knowledge can be used to affect people within the organization. Management psychology studies encompass most significant achievements of the areas of knowledge, discussed above. While previously management psychology studies ...

Introduction

Organizational Behavior or OB is an emerging science that deals with the study of how people act and behave in an organization. For the same reason, the theories behind OB are closely related with social psychology as it deals with individuals and organizational behavior and how they are interrelated with each other. Owing to its psychological framework, OB has a wide scope as it encompass a variety of organizational studies such as organizational performance, employee motivation, leadership, team building, organizational structures an organizational management among many other organizational disciplines. The purpose of this paper is to determine how OB developed based ...

Alternative perspective on management

In management and organizational studies, there is seemingly one way used to analyze aspects of management. However due to the scientific nature of management and organizational studies, there are alternative critical approaches used to analyze various aspect of management. Looking at the definition of management and organization, one can easily say that both concepts are as old as the history of human beings. In the historical period, there were various forms of organizations including armies and states which experienced management and organizational challenges. These challenges highlighted on areas such as human resource management, resource and financial management, branding and ...

The level of influence and skillfulness of a leader determine the success of an organization (Palshikar, n.d.). A good leader has control over the organization’s structure and also represents the organization’s culture. Moreover, good leaders have the capability of increasing an organization’s level of productivity. There are many different leadership styles, such as autocratic, democratic, delegative, traditional, transactional, transformational, and charismatic (Palshikar, n.d.). While the transformational leadership style is similar to the charismatic leadership style, this paper focuses on charismatic leadership. In particular, this paper discusses the definition and process of charismatic leadership, as well as ...

The study aims to analyze the level of student satisfaction with the MA Degree Program in Leadership and Organizational Studies at Fresno Pacific University in order to assess the effectiveness of the program. To achieve this objective, the study has incorporated a cross-sectional, quantitative research design where data is collected through a survey received from a sample of 23 students. Results show that students are quite satisfied from the program where variations are noticed on the basis of demographics and the different aspects of the program studied.

In this regard, while assessing the paper for its writing style and structure, it is ...

Management

In order to sustain and attain success for a long term period most organizations need to review and accordingly change their existing policies, structures and working climate to accommodate new technologies, processes and systems. The entire literature of organizational change has itself gone through a transformation with management leaders driving change management, purposefully and boldly, either to attain success or failure (Ahn, Anderson & Dornbusch, 115).

Leadership, organizational culture and human resource policies for driving change

There are innumerable real life examples of transformational leaders driving organizations to perform and become leading firms. Leaders like Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Louis Gerstner and the like have successfully steered change management. There are several ...

Leadership and Motivation

Leadership studies have evolved over time with several theoretical perspectives being presented on leadership. From various leadership theories, scholars have asserted some common ingredients like honesty, integrity, clear communication of objectives and goals, adapting and facilitating change management and effective two way communication process. Other than the above mentioned topics there has been a lot of research on the relationship between motivation and leadership. This is mainly because both these concepts are interconnected. Effective leaders are those who have the capacity to influence and motivate followers to engage in excellent performance to attain organizational success and effectiveness.

Analysing transactional, transformational and charismatic leadership behaviours

Eminent scholars ...

Communication and Leadership

Abstract The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) has seventeen regular attending members. We are all athletes so we have a common interest in sports. I’m also interested in gaining experience in leadership skills and being on this committee offers me a chance to use them both in my department and in the community. Nine of the group members are men and eight are women. Although some of the literature on communication mentions a difference between how men and women communicate it is not obvious in this group. The student leader and faculty leader of the group help set the agenda and ...