Essays on Leadership Development

Introduction

The research was carried out to establish the results of a three-year training program which is founded on the learning principles. The effectiveness of the program is being evaluated in promoting authentic Leadership (AL) the participants’ mindfulness. The reason for carrying out the evaluation is due to arguments between various authors who reasoned out that the adoption of authentic leader method is attributed by coherence between the actions undertaken and espoused values and clear intentions. The characteristics are required to attain sustainable business performance (Baron, 2016). Throughout the world, there is a call for genuine leadership which will guide ...

The success of Genesis Healthcare was not made possible without the support of its employees who were committed in delivering quality healthcare. One of the organizational strategy of Genesis that relates to its employees is defined in the statement of its core values. New and seasoned employees are always reminded of their company’s belief in them. This is important because the core belief in the ability of the employees is a factor that also expands to the organizations as whole. The management recognizes that the implementation of its mission and the achievement of the vision and objectives are ...

Introduction

The economic and social wellbeing of the society depends substantially on an effective and efficient performance of organisations. Management and leadership activity in the United Kingdom organisations becomes necessary, and the weakness and opportunities that exist should get addressed to realize a further advantage based on enhanced performance (Goetsch & Davis, 2014). Thus, excellent and adequate management and leadership skills are essential tools to achieve the best in organisations. The current ideas of the nature of leadership and management have evolved significantly over several decades to encompass new ideas including emotional intelligence, especially in organisation and planning (Giacalone & Rosenfield 2013). ...

Introduction – Case Summary

Carnegie Industrial is one of the biggest corporations in the US with over USD$ 125 million turnover and 45, 000 employees globally. The company started as a producer of engineering and construction equipment and further expanded in consulting business. The aggressive inorganic growth strategy through acquisitions made the organization face challenges, related to cultural diversity, as it experienced the mix of at least four different cultures among its people. To address the issue, the company opened doors to Leadership Development Center (LDC), but it failed to deliver the results under the previous management. Elizabeth Silver, the Director, decided that ...

Introduction

Many managers these days are asking themselves whether they manage to find the right people for transporting business or project success. They ask themselves several questions. How do I find the human resource management that will enable the continued growth and prosperity of the organization? Is there an effective strategic planning of the workforce that takes into account the constraints and future requirements in a corporate environment? The answers to these questions involve huge business advantage and long-term success. This is the reason why Talent management has become progressively significant for business organizations due to consistently changing business conditions. ...

The overall purpose of evaluating a healthcare organizations governance is to ensure that the healthcare organization implements a strategy that supports sustainability. While for-profit organizations will develop sustainability through profitability and strong management that balances market risks and internal control, healthcare organizations is to ensure that the resources of the healthcare organization are not being wasted, but more importantly, that there is a social good being delivered by the healthcare organization for the community (Leatt & Porter, 2002). If the healthcare organization does this well and the community requires more of what the hospital delivers, then the healthcare organization should ...

DISCUSSION PAPER

1. The 2013 Army Strategic Planning Guidance (ASPG) describes an Army that is “globally responsive and regionally engaged — one building toward a regionally aligned, mission tailored force that can Prevent, Shape and Win now and in the future.” To guide this approach, the Army lists four imperatives that form the basis of the Army Campaign Plan:

develop leaders to meet the challenges of the 21st century; adapt the Army to more effectively provide land power; and enhance the all-volunteer Army. Which imperative is the most important and why? Give an example of something that the Army could do to ...

Leader and Management Development

Introduction Leadership forms the backbone of any organization. This is because it entails offering direction, creating a sense of purpose and defining a strategic plan for the organization. Such aspects of leadership are important in ensuring the success of an organization in the long run (Yukl, 2013). For the leadership functions mentioned above to be successfully implemented, it is critical that the individuals in leadership positions show responsibility in their day-to-day undertakings. It therefore implies that leadership development has become a primary aspect of the overall management function. Leadership development is anchored on the character and behavior of the ...

There are numerous factors that make managers and leaders successful in the business world. One of the most important aspects of business leadership is allowing communication to flow up and down the chain of command; while not every idea is implemented, it is important that employees understand their concerns will be listened to in order to maintain a successful work environment. Leaders, therefore, build a transparent environment and make themselves available to their employees and other high level business people. In addition, business leaders must work on relationship building between other business leaders in order to foster good relationships ...

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Organizations from around the world are working on improving the qualities and capabilities of leaders and managers, and developing new leaders. Moreover, a large number of executives and officials consider leadership development as an important priority not only in the present world but also in the future. Nearly, two-thirds of 500 executives showed leadership development as their top most concern (Gurdjian, Halbeisen, & Lane, 2014). This is due to the fact that organizations can’t flourish with average leaders. Whereas, an exceptional leader can deal effectively with employee commitment, productivity, customer satisfaction, and profitability and these things ...

Introduction

Contemporary leadership theory is focused on the transformation of the organizational and individual view on the role of leaders in building the sustainable corporate culture and addressing change management and uncertainty in the modern corporations. While a number of frameworks are developed to evaluate and concept and find a set of factor and personal qualities, which define a great leader, the reality shows that leadership unique and the success of one or another individual as a leader depends on upon a number of intrinsic and external factors (Bennis and Thomas, 2002). With that in mind, self-awareness, understanding of the ...

How does cultural intelligence differ in India and the United States?

Cognitive Skills and abilities: The paper “Social Skills Intervention for Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders: A Literature Review from the American Perspective” by Kaili Chen assesses the relationship between social skills and behavioral difficulties for students in special educational programs. The author contends that social skills are a necessary element in the learning environment due to the capabilities that they provide to learners in interacting and communicating in order to help determine their difficulties and to help them function more successfully. Difficulties with these faculties is often discovered to be a primary factor in the inability for an individual to ...

Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Leadership

Trust be told, leader has a lot of responsibilities and requirements. For instance, such person must have a special charisma and feel the audience in order to gather other people around him/her. Besides, leader’s success directly depends on his/her EI level. In order to see this point clearly let us look deeply into this question through article that is presented as follows. This research was conducted by Sadri (2012) and it includes review of the several EI issues as well as recommendations for future leadership development. Author also raised the issue about origins of EI and its main ...

A Study on the differences between Maersk and Citigroup in IHRM practices

Globalization of business operations and the emerging issues have necessitated that business organizations reformulate their management policies to resolve the problems arising out of a diverse cultural atmosphere. Business destinations in developing countries offer a multitude of opportunities but organizations have to prepare themselves well to address the differences in business factors influencing success. These factors may be related to political, economic, cultural or legal environment and affect the functions of organizations. One of the organizational functions affected seriously by the diverse factors is that of International Human Resource Management (IHRM) and multinationals formulate different policies to confront the ...

Abstract

Public safety agencies have a tendency to ignore leadership succession planning and the formal development of future leaders. A combination of budget cuts, a lack of internal interest, increased public scrutiny, and politics means that public agencies often do not prepare for leadership changes. The average leadership tenure in the public sector has a reputation for being more extensive than the private sector, which is perhaps one of the reasons why public agencies do not place as much importance on succession planning. The average tenure of leaders in fire and rescue agencies is shortening due to increased job demands ...

Essay synopsis

Introduction to Management Introduction The management challenges are those problems with that the manager and administration make hard struggles to come up with the solutions. Most of the field experts and research studies have found that most business problems and challenges are usually derived from the lack of communication or unorganized communication (Njomo 38). Drucker (17, 18) has stated in his book that the management challenges are not new but they have been remained a part of the organisations and business from decades. Some of the major challenges include technology, leadership, creativity, innovation and competitive advantage. These challenges are ...

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 ...

Social change is an inevitable condition in organizations. In essence, social change in an organization typically occurs due to variations in the behavioral aspects of the constituent people. It can also occur due to the consistent alterations dictated by time changes. Moreover, it can also occur following the need for transformation in an institution. Social change agents, social workers serve an essential function of initiating and implementing behavioral change in a social change organization. Social change is justified as a coping mechanism for an alteration in an aspect(s) of an institution. Social change is unavoidable in learning institutions. ...

Audience

This paper is directed to the academic audience. It will benefit the academic community associated with the organizational function of human resource management. Specifically, the report would be presented to my tutor. This is done in partial fulfillment of my academic goals. Nevertheless, the information provided in the report has utmost significance to practitioners in the field of human resource management.

Summary

This report focuses on the issue of leadership and management performance in organizations. It begins with the definition of terms that commonly occur within the context of human resource management. It then proceeds to give a brief introduction ...

Abstract:

This formal report focuses on self-reflection and the importance of personal development planning for students and managers. This focus underlines the necessity to define the concepts of self-reflection and Personal Development Planning and critically assess the ways they benefit students and managers. The report is divided into two primary sections: Self-reflection (1) and Personal Development Planning (2) that are, in their turn, subdivided into four and, respectively, three sub-sections. The materials used for composing this formal report include peer-reviewed journal articles, a book, and web-resources that focus upon the topics of self-reflection and PDP, their benefits and best implementation ...

Business Plan Proposal

Business Identification of Problem Poor publicity can affect a wonderful product and can lead to an uphill battle getting back into good standing with your customers, community, employees and stakeholders. Competent leaders are a necessity to rally teammates in tough times, even though acquiring and retention of qualified individuals may pose to be even more of a struggle. Recently, Transurban, the company that designs and operates the Express Lanes on I-495, I-95, and I-395, have taken on some bad publicity with civil lawsuits, deaths on the Express Lanes, back-ups on the lanes that are a result of user accidents ...

Succession Planning in Organizations

Appointive posts in organizations always have a set time limit under which an executive officer or director serves. An organization can have a compulsory retirement age of 60 years for Chief executive officer (CEO) and other senior management officials. When these people are approaching this age limit, an organization began a roll out program to start looking for CEO five years before the current officer leaves the office. In this case, when the current CEO reaches 55 years, the company will be on the lookout who will be the successor. Succession planning is highly practiced in organizations for the ...

Leadership vision

Effective leadership is a necessity for every company, enterprise, or organization that wishes to prosper. Mainly, it involves being in charge of the other members. Although trait leadership theory suggests otherwise, I believe that leadership is a skill and one can learn it at any level. Leaders are not perfect individuals; instead, they are people who have committed to be responsible for a team. A leadership development plan (LDP) is an outline that enables an individual to achieve his or her leadership goals. The plan comprises various elements will help a person to accomplish his or her leadership desires ...

Summary of the case study

The case study “Leadership Development for Health Service Delivery: Making the Most of Limited Resources in Afghanistan” describes the implementation of LDP (leadership development program) in Afghanistan’s healthcare system (Alliance for Case Studies for Global Health, 2012). In addition, the study analysis the health benefits that accrue from the program and sustainability of the program. Over the years, the Afghan healthcare system has been faced by numerous challenges such as increased mortality, poor immunization and endemic episodes of infectious diseases particularly due to resource constraints as well as persistent warfare. However, the country has recently witnessed tremendous improvements ...

Introduction

There are diverse issues and concerns that need to be addressed regarding union leadership. There are issues regarding four (4) forms of political action, inclusion of women in top leadership position, and assistance provided by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc. The current discourse hereby aims to provide responses to requirements shown in the following sections.

Statement of Petition to Union Leader

In one’s personal capacity as enabled by one’s educational background and work experiences, in conjunction with genuine interests, abilities, and competencies, it is hereby proposed that I should render volunteer work in political campaigns. As learned, political action ...

Introduction

Leadership is an important factor in the development of a business enterprise. Leadership becomes even more important when the business experiences growth. The growth of a business enterprise results in new and different dynamics. It is imperative that the business leader also grows in terms of philosophy and skills in order to lead the business under the new dynamics. Burke, Clarke, Barrow and Molian (2008) argue from a different perspective. They hold that during the growth of a business entity, a leader has two roles to play. Firstly, the leader needs to articulate the vision and direction of the ...

A major milestone for the healthcare sector today is the increased focus on patient outcomes and the insistence on the need for accountability in optimization of resources. The nursing process is theoretically an intervention that helps patients fulfill their unmet needs and therefore nurses act as the point of interaction between the patient, their families and the general population with the mechanisms that facilitate meeting those needs. The healthcare sector in itself seeks to continually help people recognize the health and illness continuum and thus help them adapt to the dynamics of this continuum so that they maintain a ...

Role of Mentoring on Individual and Organizational performance

Organizational goals cannot be realized without individual development. In order to achieve an efficient performance, organizational and individual productivity should be perfectly aligned. A consistent development of the employees is essential for continuous growth of the organization and development of employees has to be achieved through a planned supervision that prepares them to handle the responsibilities associated. Experts have suggested several processes like coaching, mentoring and e-learning, that contribute to the training and development of the individual. Organizational development can be achieved through the development of individuals employed in it. This report is an attempt towards understanding the concept ...

Is the Leadership Development Important For All In The Police Profession? Why or Why Not

Is the Leadership Development Important For All In The Police Profession? Why or Why Not

According to Ortmeier and Meese (2009), all police officers need leadership development to deal with law enforcement and public safety challenges and issues of the 21st century effectively. They must possess leadership skills regardless of position or rank. This is whether they want to be leaders or not. Police officers need leadership competence to implement police strategies that are consistent with expectations on social order. All police officers must be able make decisions, motivate others, resolve conflicts, plan, organize and set goals and ...

ABSTRACT:

This paper present the literature review related to the change in organizational culture and innovation. The paper describes the critical aspect of organizational change in culture. To evaluate the understanding of the cultural models different researches has been included and studied intensively. For better understanding the literature from the organizational behaviour, organizational culture and behaviour, human psychology, human resource, and Industry best practices, some business professionals who are expert in their field are also a part of this research. To widen the understanding of organizational culture and also how it may affect on innovation and creativity the research is conducted ...

Over Four Years of College

Many researchers have studied leadership for years; it leads to several theories that pertained to the development of leadership skills, the attainment of the skills, and its outcomes on both effective and ineffective leaderships. Leadership is diverse including range of philosophy, frameworks, and models. In addition, the research is comprehensive, intricate, and some part has conflicts in terms of classification, definition, and skills and development. Leadership scholarship focuses on organizational and institutional leaders with affect the institutions and organizations. Leadership research attended to executive, corporate, and positional leadership. In student leadership, it is centered on leadership development; the relationships ...

Abstract

Large multinational corporations in the contemporary business environment have a strong focus on leadership as the external environment places pressure on sustainability of their business models, based solely on the downstream advantages. With the growing complexity of the business, HRM became a paramount strategic element of the organizations, where leadership development and retention build on the core of business competitiveness. Many companies in the modern environment recognize the role of human capital in building productive and efficient internal environment and creating rare and inimitable assets. At the same time, there are numerous barriers that can be seen in the contemporary ...

How Effective Competencies, Relationships, and Learning Capabilities may be Measured as Factors in Future Leadership Development

Leadership competencies denote leadership behaviors and skills, which contribute to superior organization performance (Gómez, Lorente & Cabrera, 2009, p. 6). With competency-based strategy to leadership, firms may better recognize and develop the next cohort of leaders (Gómez, Lorente & Cabrera, 2009, p. 4). While certain leadership competencies are considered crucial to all organization, a firm should define and specify what attributes of leadership are unique to the particular firm to develop competitive advantage.

Effective competencies may be measured when choosing and developing leaders, this is the point when it is essential to consider the competencies, which the individual ...

Introduction to the problem

The healthcare sector is now experiencing the rapid and important change with dramatic change yet to come. In a challenging and evolving environment, the organizations like healthcare ensure the high levels of professional and technical expertise. They used to develop the leadership capacity in order to adopt new services and succeed in the future. According to Solansky (2010), a rising profession in healthcare management is increasing the chances in both direct and non-direct care settings. The problem is to increase the diversity of healthcare organization staff and manage issues that occur in a multicultural environment. Funding is important in healthcare institutions so ...

How would you describe the cycle of leadership and identify knowledge, skills and abilities at each stage of the cycle that contribute to understanding health leadership development? How do you learn the ropes' in a health organization?

The cycle of leadership is manifested as analogous to the crawl, walk, and run stages that traditional personal stages of growth and development undertakes. Within the crawl stage for instance leaders begin to explore new applications and rely on stock knowledge, basic leadership skills, and emerging abilities to influence and lead others. During the walk stage, leaders begin to assume greater confidence in ...

Undeniably, leadership/management training and development plays a tremendous role in effective management and employees’ performance in an organization. It is vital to be updated with the modern methodologies to make sure that the organization’s leaders are prepared to effectively lead and inspire teams. Leadership training programs enable leaders to acquire and develop their leadership skills and to put into practice these skills in the organization. One clear benefit that assists in underscoring the significance of leadership/management training is the enhancement in skills that managers/leaders will acquire in training programs (Thompson & Strickland, 2003).  Through training, the leadership/management team ...

I fit in the initial phase, which is “embryonic leader” phase since I have not developed the potential to lead others. I am still nurturing my leadership skills by observing and learning leadership skills from mentors. In the next three years, I will have transitioned to the “evolving leader”, as I will be able to develop the skills and ability to motivate, influence, and empower followers (Lockwood, 2006). In order to make this transition, I will ensure that I attend more leadership courses and attending seminars organized by influential leaders and motivational speakers. Experience in motivating and ...

1. Baseline Self-Assessment

In order to develop my own sense of leadership, I have to determine exactly what kind of leader I am now. This will allow me to learn exactly what needs to change, and what needs to be maintained as I continue to grow and evolve as a leader. In terms of my leadership style, I would say that I am authentic and adaptive; these are the two primary concepts I would use to identify the way in which I lead. My authenticity comes from my ability to be honest and fair with my teammates and peers; I always made sure ...

Introduction

The topic of leadership is one that has attracted a lot of interest from academicians as well as practitioners. A lot of research has been conducted on the topic with the aim of establishing what exactly leadership entails. There is in fact thousands of books, articles and other publications on this topic. Leadership has also been exposed to a variety of definitions with many scholars failing to come to a consensus in regard to the most accurate definition. Nevertheless, leadership is often seen by many as the organizational process through which an individual influences other people towards attaining or achieving common goals. ...

Question 1: The top managers are very busy people Why was it necessary to involve them in leadership leverage?

It was important to make the top managers a part of the leadership leverage because they can help in a significant manner to develop leaders by designing the career paths of employees. Moreover, they can develop high potential talent among the selected employees . Question 2: The program took 5 years to get to the end point. Is that realistic, or did it take a long time? Explain why the timing may vary. It has been witnessed that there were 6834 employees within the organization so 5 years is a realistic duration of running a training and development program. All the steps mentioned ...

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. ...

Management and Leadership Development

Introduction Competitions among organizations are tight these days. The success or failure of the company’s market edge in the industry largely depends on the effectiveness of their respective management teams. Management effectiveness includes, but is not limited to, creativeness and the ability to think outside of the box. Resourcefulness and strategic skills are essential in determining ways to outsmart the competitors in today’s global industry. In this paper, readers would get to learn about the techniques and strategies to manage global organizations effectively. Readers will learn the competitors’ edge over one company in relation to management ...

Introduction for CMU Competencies Model

The crux of this report is to highlight my leadership competencies through the exploration of theories and models. Also, with the aids of the leadership development plan, I will be better off on preparing myself; a young undergraduate who is entering the workforce in the near future and have an aim to take up leadership role as an event manager in a major company. The Central Michigan University (CMU) had developed a Leadership Competency Model which made up of five aspects, namely the social responsibility, innovation, task management, leading others and self-management. According to the model, leaders may not master all ...

How nurses can use the change process effectively to promote positive outcomes in healthcare environments

The current healthcare environment has a number of challenges that are affecting the nursing profession. According to Tomajan (2012), rising cost of healthcare, shortage of nurses, technology and increasing patient population are among some of the challenges that are affecting the healthcare environment. However, these challenges present an opportunity for nurses to develop and promote the nursing profession through advocacy. Advocacy can only be effective if nurses work in collaboration with one another and other professions, which influence the healthcare environment. For instance working in collaboration with the information technology sector can greatly help in improving the development of technology ...

Question 1

The context in which leadership is being implemented in organizations is changing constantly. The problems and challenges faced by most organizations are becoming also complex. This is certainly the case for military organization. This is so because not only the threats to the nation’s defense more difficult to predict, but the very nature of the mission have changed, from traditional warfare to humanitarian aid and peacekeeping. Therefore, the necessary approach to military leadership should be considered. The environment and goal should be a starting point when considering the military leadership. Currently, the military leaders have opted to adaptive ...

Career Goals and Objectives

Possible promotional opportunities for career growth Career Motivators in my Current Position At my current position, my major career motivator is to further understand the strategic background behind the customer service initiatives. Upon the development of understanding, I would like to driver of this change. I would want it to be a two way street, where I not only bring about changes to customer service initiatives with change in company strategy, but also provide feedback to senior leadership about change in customer demands and perceptions. My knowledge of computers, internet and MS Office suite of software has ...

Nursing

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Introduction

The issue of leadership in all its complexity has become a popular, if not fashionable, in various professional fields. The value that can be created throughout adaption and implementation of various leadership styles, techniques and paradigms, is now commonly acknowledged. In this regard Nursing is no exception. Appropriate forms of leadership may contribute positively both to daily routines of professionals and the long-term impact on the community development and their own professional progression. This research will concentrate on theoretical description and analysis of the issue of leadership in Nursing, provide a respective literature review ...

Introduction

Leadership programs are crucial for ensuring that the organization has employees equipped with the right skills for leading other in various aspects. In that respect, this report presents a proposal for development of a leadership program for Memorial Regional South Hospital covering the aspects of participants, incentives, monitoring, challenges and follow-up strategies.

Proposal

- Participants selection for the program and monitoring of their progress The programs participants will be selected based on performance for various departments. In that respect, the best performing employees will be selected for participation of the program each year. - Incentives for participating in the program ...

Introduction

This is a scientific age where the technical advancements of everyday are catapulting the human race as a whole towards a remarkable future. Nonetheless the proper development of all such progresses, depend on the human touch, thus the importance of Human resources. However the major issues, that managers feel, are not within their direct control and therefore complicate the functioning of the organization most are those of Productivity, Job satisfaction, Turnover and Absenteeism – all of which are human centric. This highlights the fact that despite all the technological advancements, even in the 21st century, the proper and successful functioning of any organization ...

California Lutheran University

Rayan Azhari Chapter I

Introduction

Succession planning is the process of identifying, recruiting, and training employees of an organization in order to equip them with skills necessary for enabling them to take up future top management positions. It entails training and evaluation processes to ensure that the respective employees are capable of effectively and efficiently handling all the management and leadership issues, they may face in the course of duty. Succession planning is an important part of everyday organization activities and, as a result, all organizations whether small; medium sized or even large must prepare for future succession possibilities. ...

Abstract

Labor supply – a country’s population – and human capital – the skills and capabilities of the workforce – are two of the main drivers of economic growth and development. Hence, most developed countries with high GDP rates are those with large populations and highly skilled human capital. Governments build human capital through increased educational opportunities and high quality education. Furthermore, developed countries has implemented systems in place to take advantage of both male and female workers. Nonetheless, in patriarchal societies such as Arab states, culture and religion hinders countries from taking advantage of women’s economic contributions. The research focuses on the ...

- Situation Analysis Cardexx had recently experienced several changes because the new CEO was appointed. Leadership style had changed. There were changes in technology and operations observed as well. The new opportunities emerged as a result of focus on innovations and availability of higher quality data.

After careful analysis of the situation that occurred at Cardexx, the following challenges were identified:

• operating in a highly competitive environment; • problems with security; • poor leadership; • absence of coherence in the teams. Cardexx faced tough competition from the side of Visa and MasterCard. Cash is also seen as a substitute product to the payment cards. Thus, a new operational process is needed to offer either new or ...

Introduction

After the current economic crisis, the thing that emerged like essential for the entities is their inner confidence and efforts to compete with other organizations operating in similar line of business and control (Adair & Thomas, 2004). Growth and Development in regular concession is extremely essential for an organization, because it is the only thing that can keep it edgy and productive in terms of their competitors. The power of competition has increased heavily in all over the world especially after the current economic crisis, and from that period, the stance of competition is increasing heavily (Elias, 2007). History ...

Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is an important aspect in the evaluation and analysis of any type of communication which forms part of our daily encounters. Therefore there is a need for a keen analysis and evaluation of the concepts that form a complete and fully functional communication system. In this paper, a memo written by the vice president of a company is going to be analyzed drawing information and reference from a multi-step method developed by Browne and Keeley in their book, “Asking the Right Questions: A guide to Critical Thinking.

What are the issue and conclusions?

The main issue in the Memo is raised by the Vice President of the Human Resource ...

- Introduction “Change is inevitable” as most researchers and scholars argues. Organizations need to align the respective changes within their operational policy through a set dynamic framework. Failure of the organization to implement a dynamic framework to align or address the respective changes is likely to have marginal implications hence the need for planned organizational change (Gerhardt, 2004). The planned organizational change is termed as the process which moves organizations from a present state to a more desirable future state in relation to enhancing the organizational effectiveness. Through the different frameworks and models, organizations are able to conduct organizational development and change ...

Experience of lollipop moment

Drew Dudley’s vision of a leadership is very inspiring. I didn’t even think that I can speak about myself as a leader, but he made me to remember one of such lollipop moments happened in my life. Actually, I don’t have this moment in my memory in details, but I cannot deny it because I really have features of a person from that story. My close friend, Kate, told me about the situation, which, in her opinion, was crucial in our long-lasting relations. It was in school. My last grade I spent in the school, where all students in ...

Chapter I

Introduction Succession planning is the process of identifying, recruiting, and training employees of an organization in order to equip them with skills necessary for enabling them to take up future top management positions. It entails training and evaluation processes to ensure that the respective employees are capable of effectively and efficiently handling all the management and leadership issues, they may face in the course of duty. Succession planning is an important part of everyday organization activities and, as a result, all organizations whether small; medium sized or even large must prepare for future succession possibilities. Effective succession planning ...

Abstract

The paper provides a discussion through different theories and methods for self-leadership development and focuses primarily on the matter if leader skills and traits can be nurtured through the experience and self-improvement. Different researchers and authors have made suggestions regarding both professional and personal leadership, which is believed to be interrelated. Paper also alludes to practices, which are found to be used for self-leadership cultivation and refers to practical recommendations for self-upgrade. The final summary present paper’s author combined analyses on the reviewed literature and wraps up within reference to practical researchers recommendations. Key words: self-leadership, self-made leader, ...

Preface 3

Theoretical Framework for Reflective Learning 3 Advantages Associated with Reflective Learning 4 Brain and the Reflective Learning System 5 Natural learning system of Brain 6 Emotions & Learning 6 Emotional Intelligence 7 Learning in Adults and Technical training 7 Conclusion 8

References 9

Preface The reflective learning enhances the inner structure to promote the learning. It involves the various processes involving the brain and emotions. The brain is able to think consciously. It is also analyzing the working of the individual, e.g. what is he doing or is intending to do. For instance, in ...

Management Development: A Case of Britannic Assurance

Management Development: A Case of Britannic Assurance

Introduction

This paper reviews a case study of a management development programme initiated by an insurance company based in the United Kingdom dubbed Britannica Assurance. It reviews the company before and after the adoption of the management development program in regard to its general performance. Subsequently, an evaluation and analysis of the case study is presented detailing the contributions of other literary works on the topic of management development. Essentially, the analysis and evaluation is to develop an understanding of the benefits or otherwise of the management development program and its importance or lack of ...