Management Book Reviews Samples For Students

Conflict resolution and ethic Intervention Communication is a central part in the conflict and ethnic intervention. Conflict can be termed as a misunderstanding between two or more parties. In addition to that, conflict can further be grouped to gender conflict, social conflict, economic conflict or political conflict. Politically instigated conflicts are the most rampant in the world and are fuelled by politicians using propaganda via the social media. An example is the heightened level of conflict during the First World War, Second World War and the cold war. Conflict resolution calls either for negotiation among the parties or the intervention ...

There has been a long standing debate about the pay of the CEO’s of companies. Proponents of this debate argue that CEO’s of successful companies are effectively performing the duties for which they were hired that is; maximization of shareholder wealth. Therefore, if CEO’s are paid in terms of stocks or salary then this is justifiable. Proponents further argue that the media reports instances where shareholders are given high salaries, benefits, and stocks but they fail to report events where CEO’s have been fired and their pay has been reduced as a result of poor company performance. ...

This paper has analyzed the problem of what impact does leadership have on quality. The scope of this work involves the specific work in the book called Leadership for quality by an author Juran J.M. It has reviewed various concepts by the author.

The approach to this problem has involved analyzing three functions of businesses, planning control and improvement in quality. Also, an analysis has been made in the work force part in order to get an idea of the factors that will lead to their improvement in quality.

The results in this analysis are that quality can be ...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, a best seller by Patrick Lencioni who is a renowned speaker and consultant, was published in the year 2002 and since it’s publication it has helped many organizations in minimizing internal politics and cut throat behavior among employees of an organization. It has been helpful to the organizations in such a way that its effects were seen beyond the companies; in schools, government organizations, non government organizations, judiciary and political arena.

The author has successfully tried to explore the elementary reasons behind the internal politics and provided effective tips to prevail over basic human tendencies that ...

Summary : Managing business ethicsLinda K. Trevino & Katherine A. Nelson. Wiley; 5th edition

Chapter 4 – Addressing individuals’ common ethical problems

Ethical issue when people work together (privacy, discrimination, sexual harassment or simply how people get along. Key is fairness meaning equity, reciprocity, impartiality
- Equitable is when something is divided between 2 people according to the worth & inputs of the 2 individuals. Most people think it’s unfair when 2 people have performed the same duty but receive a different share of the reward
- Reciprocity: “if you do this for me I’ll do this for you”. Most ppl think it’s unfair if ...

Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann

- Clive Beggs had formerly been Chartered, BRE advisor, and engineer of the School of Civil Engineering under The University of Leeds and is the serving Professor of Medical Technology in the University of Bradford.
- He is a biomedical scientist and mechanical engineer and excels in the field of energy management.
- He, a world known speaker, has authored several scientific papers on designing of buildings that consume low energy, and are environment friendly.
- No wonder, he is the recipient of CIBSE Bronze Medal for his achievements in the field of desiccant cooling that uses water ...

Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson and The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson are two books that use symbolic stories to talk educate on interpersonal relationships and organizational and management skills.
The One Minute Manger mirrors the experience of a young man who desires to learn as much as he can about being an effective manager. In his search for effective managerial skills, the young man hears of a manager in a nearby town who has a credible reputation of being very effective and who is admired by many. When the young arranges a meeting with this reputable ...

Book Review:

George Washington Bush stands as the 43rd president of the United States of America who led the country for two elective terms each consisting of four years. Like most of the other International players, he wrote a memoir after his constitutional term in the presidency office. The memoir captures his life, the presidency choices made and their consequences. The title of the memoir is Decision points. The book was launched on 9th November 2010 and in less than two months more than two million copies had been sold out, also at this time it topped on the New York Times ...

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, ...

Book review

Abstract
The rise of the use of information systems has been an issue of concern and has attracted much attention by many business entities. The development of competitive advantage has been enhanced and developed with the use of information systems. Many organizations have adopted the use of information systems and enhanced the undertaking of business processes. In this paper, a review of information systems in the business context will be looked and assessed. The paper will focus on the content that the authors have focused and done research about. It will help to bring the issues that are of ...

The Analytical Report about “Running Money” by Andy Kessler

Introduction
The world of hedge funds is obscure and confusing. The market has a reason of existence that is to compel the super-riches towards blowing their money into unwise investments that do not produce any substantial returns for the stakeholders. However, they favored the fund’s managers to receive one percent increment in their salaries on annual basis and they earned twenty percent of the annum’s profits as well. The title of the book reveals a deeper reality of economic world that weighs everything in monetary terms, and people need to prove their financial power and fortune in order ...

What special insights did I gain from the readings?

Workplace stress is inevitable but can be managed. From Reuter and Schwarzer’s article, I learned that a manager who succeeds in dealing with stress becomes an inspiration to his subordinates. Baltes and Clark taught me that the domestic scene is a fecund source of workplace stress. Both the individual and the organization must devise strategies to attain a healthy work-life balance. Understanding and applying emotional intelligence is imperative to create a workplace that can mitigate the negative impacts of stress. In essence, effective managers and employees should understand how workplace stress and burnout can be overcome.

Personal reflections

I have often wondered why even ...

Book review:

The book to be reviewed is titled “managing the design process” authored by Terry Lee Stone. It was first published in the United States by Rockport Publishers.
The book begins by providing a guide on how to use it. It guides the user on how to navigate through its pages while looking up for information. This is very important because it avoids time wastage. It then outlines the basic design process to the reader. A new reader who does not have much knowledge about design work will find this part of the book very helpful.
It is a very ...

Leading change by John Kotter provides a couple of processes that organizations can use to achieve the set goals. Apart from organizations, these processes can also be used by individuals; whether they are leaders or not. More to it, the author has also outlined where and how the top performers fail during the process of changing. He has also provided practical resources for individuals that are charged with the responsibilities of ensuring the needed change is pursued. To avoid failure and disappointment when effecting changes the author has provided a number of steps that are effective. According to Jung (2013), changes ...

In this paperwork, I am going to write a critical book review paying a particular attention to issues of race, class, religion and gender. The paperwork requires of me to be a historian, hence evaluate the book from the perspective of its contribution to cultural and social history.
Daniel Sugerman, Jerry Hopkins, No One Here Gets Out Alive [Jim Morrison] (2006).
No One Here Gets out Alive; the work of two great men- Jerry Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman- caught me by surprise when I first saw it on the library bookshelf. The title by itself just blew up my inquisitiveness ...

What Is Your Attitude Being a Manager?

A manager in any field is deemed to have all the required attributes of being a manager. The manager is responsible for planning and then directing the duties allocated to individuals. They are expected to act in an effective manner through coordinated monitoring the work done and carrying out the necessary and sufficient correction of the failed actions. This is done when it is deemed necessary. Ideally, the management posts fit the individuals who have supervisory abilities. In most areas, the managers are expected to have the proceedings in the organization or firm that they are allocated the responsibilities. That ...

- Book introduction
The book by Irwin (2009) Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership is wonderful leadership and management guidebook. It answers the paradox question that every leader in the 21st century is seeking an answer to, how to avoid a downfall after ushering a company into unimaginable heights of success. Though this question is hard and tricky to answer, Irwin used history of outstanding CEOs that have over the years fallen prey into the sucking abyss of derailment. As a result, their actions cost them a position in a company that in most cases were the founders. Not only ...

Chapter summary of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’

Chapter 1 - It begins in the past at the Opera during a party.. Joseph Buquet tells a credible account of a ghost and later found dead. This sends fear to the entire group into fear.
Chapter 2 - Raoul de Chagny, Comte de Chagny and also his brother are introduced. Due to Carlotta unexused absence, Christine Daae made her debut as a singer at the Opera.

Chapter 3 – The ghost of Opera appears.

Chapter 4 - M. Moncharmin and M. Firmin do not believe in the existence of the Opera ghost even after the ghost sends a letter to them.
Chapter 5 – This chapter allows the reader into ...

Peter Block defines leadership as an act of stewardship where an individual commits to doing good for the sake of the community. This symbolic idea redefines the term leadership by ensuring that leadership is a form of partnership and commitment to improving a greater society and calls this act stewardship. In addition, leaders can be involved in building the economy by seeking teamwork from the people surrounding. This act is contrary to the mainstream idea of a leadership that defines it as singular and one with power and authority over the people. Thus, Peter Block asserts that leadership should be grounded to ...

The elegant book written by De Weck and his co-authors suggest that, in today’s complex world, people must conform to the technology and engineering artifacts through adoption of macro engineering systems. Through their extensive study, they identify that this intersecting macro-engineering systems compost of the management, engineering, and social sciences. They consider the technology framework to comprise of future needs, societal consequences and evolution of the systems. The book denotes that the engineering system posses the capacity to promote that development of new approaches to design, manage and analyze these systems. This comprehensive book uses several historical records, ...

English

It took ten long years before Odysseus attempted to return home. A great warrior, Odysseus and his crew knew that they could reach home safely. However, they had to face many challenges on their way back. He first encounters Cyclops, a monster with only one eye in the middle of his forehead. “We have come to the land of the Cyclops. They are the one-eyed sons of Poseidon, the sea god. They have no sense of right or wrong” (Odyssey, p.6). Using his guiles, Odysseus and his men escape from the clutches of the Cyclops. While fleeing, Odysseus shouts out ...

Management

Listening is an art and the power of listening has been a point of discussion among experts in the field of communication and decision-making. Ferrari (2012), in ‘Power Listening: Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All,’ says that “If you’re like I was, you’ve probably never thought very carefully about listening before; but I’ve realized that listening is a skill that demands conscious attention and constant practice, because only through good listening can any of us gather the information we need to do our jobs well.” This is a fact as in many business dealings, a lot of business ...

Question 1

- Strategy as a plan is viewed as a long-term approach that will be used in adopting and solving a problem, in order to determine the future direction of the enterprise, it is important to understand its current situation and all the possible means by which it can use to attain particular goals, planning is a fundamental part of the strategy formulation process. Strategy as an action is the action plan by which firms develop to build, improve, and safeguard their competitive advantage at every operational stage. It also gives a version for using competitive uncertainty; to enable the firm grow in the desired ...

Plot summary

Heart of Darkness is set in colonial Africa and revolves around Marlow, a meditative sailor, and his expedition through the Congo River to meet Kurtz, an optimist with myriad abilities. While working as a riverboat captain for a Belgian company trading in Africa, Marlow meets face to face with high handedness and cruelty meted against the natives in the Company’s stations. They are forced into hard labor, and are heavily overworked and mistreated by the Company’s agents. Marlow turns up at the central station under the care of general manager and discover s that his steamship had been grounded and ...

The book Making Ideas Happen is an outstanding management publication by Scott Belsky, a renowned entrepreneur and management organization expert. The writer has unequalled skills in internet portfolio and entrepreneurial management through the various higher learning institution and the positions held at Behance and Creative community companies. The book was first published in the year 2010 and it contains special tactics and investment management in the most challenging organizational levels.
The book primarily is an inspiration and a guide to nurture entrepreneurial ideas and innovations through management techniques to unearth the hidden potential in the global business arena. The main ...

Introduction

Global events threatening security of huge numbers of people are recognized as important triggers for introducing changes to the systems of international and national law, so that in the future similar events can become preventable. The brightest example to confirm this thesis is introduction of the UN system and development of international humanitarian and criminal law after the World War II, which was associated with lots of events, which are currently being classified as crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes. Apart from influencing the international law, World War II had variety of implications on different spheres of life ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Failure at Workplace: Designing and Applying Public Relations
I work a business which requires a very well developed public relations. Our company provides consultancy service to small and medium sized entrepreneurs (SMEs). The most important problem that many SMEs have is the quality of their stuff. Mostly, high school graduates are assigned as managers in the SMEs and it makes it harder for our company to explain things to them because they do not have any technical skills at the beginning. We may need to help them in many fields from legal issues to some technical issues in finance. The ...

Summary Based on the Book “Rework”

Rework was written by two successful life hackers for those, who also want to “hack” business reality, full of prejudices and stereotypes. Life hacker is not a superhero from the TV, but an average person, who uses wit, observation and knowledge in the most efficient way in order to break the traditional system, to get rid of the routine. The guys from 37 signals act similarly: they do not make any sensational discoveries; they just show a little bit of observation and common sense, and recommend us to act the same way, if we do not want to get caught up ...

The reasons why I believe the workers acted as they did were because they had always in the previous management had the freedom of being able to communicate with the top management without having to request for permission. The new management brought new rules in that the employees had to follow protocol when communicating with them. This they felt as unfair treatment and they wanted to show that they have knowledge that could be able to help them punish and slow down the operations of the company.
I disapprove with the way the employees took the matters into ...

The open theory refers to the idea of governing organizations while holding the belief that organizational performances are strongly linked to the environment (Tompkins, 2005). The environment or the climate, as others would describe it, constitute of the economic, political and social nature of that society. Open theory is a reaction to the pre Second World War organizational theories of human relations postulated by Elton Mayo and the administrative theory of Henri Fayol both of these theories argued that the organization is a self-contained entity (p.249).
It is important to recognize that virtually all organizations have some degree of open ...

Book Review Questions

Part A: Reflections

I believe that learning involves sharing while respecting diversity. In the course of my study, I intend to learn the various moral and legal aspects of running a successful business entity that emphasizes on the need to conduct business professionally. In addition, for my organization to flourish, I think I will try and familiarize myself with good customer relations, good time keeping and also discipline my self in regard to finances or money management.
After acquiring some of these skills, I will try and share with other individuals in the quest to create favorable and fair ...

The future of the economy can only be created, astonished, terrified, shocked, confounded, and stunned but nobody can predict what it holds at stake. For instance, taking a reflection of the past economic events of an individual clearly justifies the argument that it cannot be defined nor can it be predicted, because he or she has encounter losses rather than profits as expected “life is uncertain, and the future is unknown.” It thus calls for a person to be conversant and to master his or her own fate.
There are many and diverse negative influences and challenges that befalls American ...

Introduction

The employee recruitment and retention in the workplace is essential in the continuity of business. Organizational performance is basically a function of the nature of the human resources it has in terms of skills and expertise. Varied factors contribute to a large extent on the reason why the organization possesses workforce within its premises. Similarly, the same applies on the reason why employees within a certain organization opt to remain within the entity. Based on various individuals and organization goals and objectives, there are observable trends that commonly appear in most organization settings. Individuals who are namely employees are leaving most organizations ...

Introduction

The book Good to Great aims to explain how corporations can fail to generate the transition and how corporations transition from being typical corporations to great corporations. Collins finds the chief factor for attaining the changeover to become a narrow focusing of the organization's assets on their area of skills. Within this guide, Jim Collins teaches that businesses could make the jump to outperform the market-leaders.

The primary concepts are:

- Great businesses become great by remaining focused : focused on their clients, their products and their companies.
- They are never content to become satisfied, wish to greater amounts of quality and ...

Today, there is a tremendous and an apparently overwhelming amount of literature about Lincoln’s assassination. Even then, James L. Swanson’s “Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer” does not induce skepticism among those who are interested in knowing more about this tragic event in American history because he offers them something new. In fact, Swanson approaches this material with a rationally new angle. Many Americans are under the misconception that John Wilkes Booth, a successful actor, was devastated by the victory of the Union in the Civil War and assassinated Lincoln, who had been elected as the U.S. president for ...

A basic challenge in climbing peaks like Everest is that air past 800o meters becomes exceptionally obscure. There are just 14 mountains globally with maximum heights of more than 8000 meters and though top climbers strive to conquer all of them this also implies that the faculties of their brains is impeded severely, and cannot spend longer time periods in zones over 8,000 meters devoid of risking their lives, even without storm. Rob Hall was to rule on turnaround times to ensure that his worn out clients could make it back to camp before it became dark, as ...

Chapter 1

Argyris (1990) argues that morale, commitment and satisfaction by the employees as well as the organizationsa are only the penultimate function, since the ultimate goal of the organization is performance. This is not least because if these penultimate factors comprise the ultimate criteria, then they only succeed in covering up a vast number of problems that 21st century organizations must deal with. This book is interestsing not least because of the author’s effective use of words, phrases and idioms, word puzzles etc, which tends to inspire confidence because of the pragmatic nature of the issues raised, but also because ...

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Introduction:
Viktor Frankl’s seminal book was written in 1946 and draws on his experiences in four different concentration camps but particularly during his time in Auschwitz, that great factory of mass murder where over 1.5 million Jews and other political prisoners were exterminated. Frankl had to suffer several of his family’s deaths including his pregnant wife while he had to continue labouring and blocking out the suffering from his mind.
Frankl’s encounters with the terrible and almost unreal experiences in the concentration camps truly prove to be harrwoing reading. Yet he is constantly searching ...

Optimum Budget Allocation Method for Project with Critical Risk by Tomoichi Sato

Optimum Budget Allocation Method for Project with Critical Risk by Tomoichi Sato
A project, irrespective of the field it is in has numerous constraints; the constraints are categorized using three criteria; budget, quality, and time (Bosworth, 1995, p. 46). The constraints of the project affect the outcome, with risks and threats associated with these constraints in the project’s cycle. This can be seen under various coverage of the project, for instance, in the execution phase, certain steps that may result with the project failing and/or decline of the quality standards associated with the approach on a specific project ...

Leadership is an attribute of a person with the capability of organizing a group of people or workers for a common goal or objective. In leadership, power pays less influence as compared with the influence. Leaders are visionary, with viable ideas and strategies aimed at achieving a given set of objectives predetermined in the activities. In today’s management leadership plays crucial roles in influencing the managerial processes to be adopted by an organization. Without key strategies of motivating workers or influencing them for a common mission, the organization performance trend is likely to be in a decreasing trend. Leaders in an organization are required ...

In his compelling book “31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today,” Barry Werth sheds new light on the four weeks after President Richard M. Nixon resigned and departed from the White House in 1974, and the ongoing effects of that period. After Nixon’s departure when Gerald Ford reluctantly assumed presidency, the country was reeling from Watergate scandal. President Ford desperately needed to prove himself by stabilizing the nation, deciding whether his disgraced predecessor would be pardoned, and establishing his own administration. All in all, Werth’s book highlights the burden of the demanding ...

“Abolishing Performance Appraisals" Book Review

"Abolishing Performance Appraisals" by Tom Coens and Mary Jenkins is both a challenging and thought-provoking book focusing on one of the premises of Human Resources Management. The effectiveness of performance appraisals is brought into question with the authors terming it as a “tool of patriarchy” at the workplace. The book shows why performance appraisal, as a practice in management, should be done away with and provide the steps on what can be done instead. It also cites several detailed case studies of firms or corporations that have effectively abolished the employee performance appraisal in their operations. The book is tailored for all ...

The main points from the cooper reading

The cooper reading addresses many issues concerning responsible conduct within the public administration. The main points addressed by Cooper (2012) include the internal and external forces impacting on responsible behavior within the public domain, ethical dilemmas and ethics in situational contexts. These three main points address the extent to which legislation and other factors affect responsible conduct in public offices. According to chapter six of the cooper reading, legislation, media and codes of ethics are the main external forces affecting responsible behavior.

Summary of the article

The article Leadership, Ethics Focus of New UA Center concerns itself with moral conduct in a public sector ...

Human Resource Development (HRD) is a function that helps employees develop their abilities and skill sets to suit the job requisite and to enhance the growth within the organization. It includes training, mentoring, coaching, succession planning among others. HRD focuses on the development of the superior workforce for the organizations to achieve their goals in service to their customers. While planning to attain these requirements at its best, in the past, the leaders of the organizations have looked at the employees as a channel to attain the established targets. Their focus was on giving strength to these channels in all the ...

Book review: The Clone Redemption

The clone redemption is a science fiction book where an irresistible force meets an immovable object as Steven L. Kent puts it in The Clone Republic saga. The events take place 2516 A.D on earth where a united authority spreads out colonies of human across the Milky Way under strict orders from a powerful galactic military consisting entirely of clones who have now created empires of their own and are planning to keep it no matter who they are up against.
Wayne Harris, a marine clone born and brought up to fight for the U.A (United Authority), unleashes his anger as he ...

Introduction

Dr Stephen Covey is as a highly influential management guru, whose book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, become a useful and sequential framework for understanding personal development. Some have argued that The Seven Habits may prove easy to understand but not easy to apply. The author tries to put across life changing ideas on being more effective in all areas of life including family, professional, emotional, and spiritual, thereby creating satisfaction and happiness from all life endeavors. The importance of the book has increased than ever before, as the business world has shifted to humanistic concepts. The values proposed ...

Strategic Study: A Goal, the Process of Ongoing Improvement

ABSTRACT

The following study relates to the concepts which have been introduced with respect to business management, establishment and improvement. The paper is a significant book review which consists of the student’s co-relations with the theories which have been discussed in the book. Within these four pages of the examination we shall be analyzing the ideologies of successfully becoming an entrepreneur where training, production and statistical establishment can be induced within a young business related mind. While discussing the field of supply chain and operation management, we can understand just how well the student can initiate similar processes to inculcate ...

I have learnt that success comes from passion. Every investment that we make is passion based. The book introduces Warren Buffet as a man who is content and who loves what he does. I have subsequently learnt that the best business opportunities also thrive on passion. I should ask myself if I genuinely like doing what I am thinking of investing in.

In addition, I have learnt that I need to have the qualities of an investor for me to succeed in business. These include patience, discipline, flexibility, courage, confidence, and decisiveness. Each of these qualities plays a significant role in ...

A review of Judgment in Managerial Decision Making by Max Bazerman

Books on management and decision making usually talk about logic, realism, forecasting, and unbiased thought. However, Max Bazerman takes the opposite route in Judgement in Managerial Decision Making by first of all acknowledging first hand that managerial decisions are almost always influenced by personal biases . This is the first point that grabbed my interest. The management textbooks pertaining to decision making that I have read, although discussed individual preconception, they did so in the fashion of a cursory glance. Bazerman covers the subject with such depth and breadth that the book gives the reader several ‘I didn’t know that’ ...

Question 1:

Progressive reformers campaigned for the operation of local government in a businesslike manner. The interests of the upper class in the society motivated this. The approach would see the local governments run using economic strategies heavily reliant on scientific methods. This would help increase efficiency in service delivery.
The strong mayor and council-manager forms of city government are structured in a manner similar to corporate entities. The head organ of the strong mayor government is the executive branch where the mayor is chief executive officer of the government. The strong mayor is apolitical appointee. On the other hand, the council manager is a professional ...

Categories of employees’ complaints

(What are the specific things the employees are unhappy about? If you were to group their specific complaints together, how might you summarize the kinds of complaints the employees have? You are welcome to create the categories, describe the categories and then list the examples from the video.)

The most specific things the employees are unhappy about are low wages, poor working conditions, lack of interaction and communication with management, lack of investment in employees, lack of pleasant and enjoyable work environment, lack of feedback from managers concerning ideas and suggestions, etc. These complaints may be summarized in several ...

“The Goal”, published in 1984 is a novel written by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox in a collaborative effort. The book is based on the Theory of Constraints (TOC) of Dr. Goldratt. Narrated in the first person, the reader is introduced to hard working and idealist production head Alex Rogo, who heads the local plant of the Unico Family’s UniWare division. (The book is set in 1984,before the dot com bubble when Japanese imports are starting to hurt US manufacturers.) We start from a morning on which Alex , who has joined the company only six months back, is ...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Analysis
Patrick Lencioni’s piece, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A leadership fable, is a must read book for managers and all stakeholders in a business organization. The book offers a rare insight into the concept of team works and lays down all the factors important to the success of a team work. The book explores the various theories on which managers can rely to facilitate effective team work within their various organizations. The book is very informative and addresses the most likely pitfalls that an organization is likely to face when enforcing a team work policy. The better part of the book ...

Gary Yukl is a well-known professor of management and leadership, who has served as a faculty and board member of the leadership quarterly Journal published by the State University of New York in Albany. He has written several articles about leadership and its application and impact on business. The first version of the book leadership in organizations was published in the year 1981 and there were various other versions which were published after which the fifth version was published in the year 2002 where the pre-existing 19 chapters were consolidated into 15 chapters and a new chapter on ethical leadership and diversity ...

Book Review: Thirteen Days by Robert Kennedy

Thirteen days is a book based on the actual thirteen days between October sixteenth and October twenty eighth in the year nineteen sixty two. It is a period of time when the world stood at the blink of nuclear war that could have caused total obliteration of the Earth. This period was branded with the name ‘Cuban missile crisis of nineteen sixty two’. President John F. Kennedy selected a team of specialist to manage the tense situation created by this threat. The book offers an in-depth account of the meetings of this Executive Committee (ExComm) as told by Robert Kennedy. He was ...

The chapter focuses on psychopathy appraisal and how the attribute has evolved over time. This is basically explained in terms of conduct features and character traits. The author cites the aforementioned as among the features which were used by practitioners in the diagnosis of mental disorders. The use of character alone is however faulted by the fact that there are certain behavioral patterns such as malicious and callous conducts which are habitually displayed in a manner that is not irresponsible.
The author further gives an example of the consequences of marginalization of personality features associated with psychopathy. To this, ...

Book Review:

The word “Human Resource” is used in an official sense as the role-played by a group of individuals or a workforce that makes up an organization. The words in themselves give us the meaning. We can interpret it as simply resources needed by human beings to be successful in a workplace. In this article we will look at it as the resources that we, as human beings need to be successful, well accepted and shine in our lives. The resources are simple and everyday behavioural traits that can make a huge difference to our lives.
The book that this article chooses to ...

Introduction:

In this seminal book which is around 400 pages long, the author manages to cram a detailed history of the Middle eastern problem from the early years of the 1800’s to the present day. He succinctly manages to combine what occurred in the Colonial period where the Arab peoples were consistently exploited for their rich natural resources while he also manages to keep an open mind on other issues such as the traditions of Islam as well as several intrinsic problems which permeate the area and which have continued to this day.
Essentially Mansfield offers a study of the ...

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There is an amicable relationship between golf and management as illustrated in this preceding except or piece of writing. This is due to the fact that, the two work on barely the same principles and orientation.
For example, management is the process of enabling the realization of objectives effectively by mobilizing people or human resources toward the desired ends. This is enabled through the incooperation of the available and needed resources such as finances, technological know how ann natural endownment. Alternatively, management can be defined as redefinition of human acts inorder to facilitate the realization of the ...

It can be simply said of as the ability to exercise authority, control, influence, and rule over living and non-living things altogether. This is the act of influencing things to happen or go in a particular way. The power at hand may be for the benefit of one or many people around the person with authority.
We are informed of how God used his power to manipulate the existence of the living and non-living things both on earth and in heaven. These things he created were for the benefit of himself and the community of mankind he had created ...