Essays on Wart

Charismatic leadership in relation to Weber’s theory is the perception of the sub-ordinates that a leader has an attractively inspired gift, which will change their lives extraordinary (Sendjaya, 2015). It is based on the characteristics of the leaders like passion, confidence, and high level ability to influence people. However, these abilities of the leaders sometimes contribute to dysfunctional attitudes, such as high level egoism and self-centralism (Van Wart, 2014). In other words, a leader can be positive charismatic leader or negative charismatic leader. The leader with positive charismatic leadership abilities is oriented to others, whereas the leader with ...

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While the contribution of varied organization departments for all round success of a conventional organization cannot the debated, it is also true that human resource department plays a critical role in managing the functions of the departments and employee management (Gatewood, Feild, & Barrick, 2015). The major concerns of the department of human resource in an organization are attraction, development and attraction of superior quality of workforce, which is the executor of organizational internal and external duties. There are a number of approaches that the human resource department of a company may use for the accomplishment of endeavors of companies. ...

The research problem will be to investigate whether the patrimonial political systems of Singapore and South Korea are democracies that surpass their liberal Western analogues in terms of national growth and even democratization in some ways. It appears that, contrary to the popular misperception, democracy is not necessarily a lack of restraint and complete discretion or at least a range of freedom like the right to media. Sometimes, states like Singapore being low on resources and facing external threats decide on less liberal norms and behaviors bordering on authoritarianism in specific aspects. Regulated merit-based selection practices and disciplining norms ...

Blanchard, as cited by (Demiroz and Kapucu, 2012), notes that in managing catastrophic disasters or extreme events a leader should possess three critical competencies, leadership and team building, political, bureaucratic and social context, networking and coordination (p.96). During a crisis, a leader should be able to rally all agencies involved in the emergency with a shared vision and mission of success (Lester and Krejci, 2007). There are common traits that leaders should possess in order to effectively handle a crisis. However, differences in competencies are seen in how leaders are able to; make decisions and coordinate the implementation of ...

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The concept of stewardship is old specifically in the domain of leadership and development. Public stewardship demands professionals to perform their duties with the highest standards of honesty and personal integrity. The role of stewardship in public budgeting has been discussed least. In this paper, the need and importance of public stewardship in budgeting has been discussed. For proper public stewardship, ethical requirements for leaders have been discussed, and consequences of unethical public stewardship have been mentioned.

The need and importance of public stewardship in budgeting

Public budgeting is an important task that includes the allocation of resources, management of economic and social affairs and strategies for the ...

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Similar to most public and government organizations, the U.S. Postal Service is considered a bureaucratic organization. These types of organizations have a tendency to be structured in a hierarchical fashion, rely on rigid structure and regulations, and employ traditional or transactional management practices (Trottier, Wart, & Wang, 2008). Transformational leadership practices are not necessarily absent from bureaucratic organizations, but employees tend to rate their managers as being more proficient in transactional practices (Trottier et al., 2008). The area that employees tend to rate their supervisor the lowest is in inspirational motivation. This area of transformational leadership involves employee empowerment and ownership of one’ ...

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Definition: Proliferative verrucous leukoplakia (PVL) 2, 3 is a rare oral leukoplakia characterized primarily by chronic proliferation (4.4-11.6 years1), exophytosis, confluence, refractoriness to treatment, and extremely high cancerization. It is referred to plainly as ‘oral leukoplakia’ (OL) before 20041. Thereafter, it is called PVL. The WHO classified it among the “potentially malignant disorders”2. When multifocal1, 3, it can be found in the buccal mucosa, gingiva, alveolar ridges, and tongue. Epidemiology: Oral white lesions have a prevalence of 24.8% with 0.2 to 3.6% of which constitutes leukoplakia2. Over 86% of PVL becomes cancerous in 4.73 to 6.12 mean years (range: ...

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Question 1 In “Brideshead Revisited”, the character Rex Mottram is for the larger part of the story in a relationship with Julia. Rex appears to very deeply in love with Julia and is also a great friend to other characters including Sebastian, Boy and Charles, who he, for example, helps with their jail situation. He plans to marry Julia and in fact does so, but he maintains an illicit affair with Brenda. Julia confronts him, but he cannot understand why she is so upset. Julia is a devout Christian and tries to put a stop to Rex antics including fooling around, but ...

Intended Nestle Company

Nestle company falls under firms that deal with foods and beverages. The vision of Nestle Company is to be at par in food and Beverage sector in the Caribbean region (Bowerman, & Wart 17). The firm aims at providing their clients with products and services that are of good quality. The company also aims at value addition to its products and services, in that it will be able to offer them at competitive market prices. The other intention of Nestle Company is that it intends to attain profitability, as well as the viability in the long term (Bowerman, & Wart 21). ...

Bullying is defined as inappropriate aggressive behavior of school going children that poses a threat to their peers. In other words, the imbalance of power is also categorized under bullying. The aggressive behavior has the potential to be repeated frequently. Bullying does not only have problems for the victims, but in the longer term, it may also create psychological problems for people who bully. Aggressive behavior is not always bullying; therefore, in order for a behavior to be categorized as bullying it should include; imbalance of power, threats, spreading rumors, physical or verbal attacks, exclusion of certain individuals, and repetition. An ...

1.0 Introduction Lee Iacocca has been chosen because is one of the few leaders in the world’s history who have managed convert companies on the verge of collapse to some of the most successful organization. Moreover, he achieved exemplary performance wherever he worked. During his tenor as the president of Ford Motor Company, Ford became one the most successful automobile companies. Even after being fired from Ford, he did not give up but was employed Chrysler where he managed to turned an ailing company into one of a very successful automobile entity. 2.0 Executive Summary This ...

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The line separating leaders from managers is so thin. The author notes that capable leaders must not be effective leaders. I find it hard to concur with this since it is necessary for management or leadership to set what and why something should be done and then go ahead and decide on how , when and move forward to execute the right policies and procedures to avert catastrophic events. Though managers do most of the work in disaster management, the outstanding role of leadership in disaster management should not be belittled. Leadership epitomizes the brains that are really useful in ...