Essays on Leadership Effectiveness

Management of Power

Introduction 3

Organizational Structure Influences 4-5 Conclusion 5-6

References 7

Management of Power As the nurse executive at St Louis Medical Center, it will be important to identify and utilize the leadership theories relevant to management of power in this professional capacity. Management of power is critical in creating work environments that are conducive for nurses to provide quality patient care. In a fast evolving healthcare sector, there is a growing need for nurse leaders to ensure their leadership provides the motivation and inspiration needed to continuously improve services. Based on this observation, the current paper seeks to identify and articulate ...

President Obama ushered in his tenure of leadership with significant reforms in the healthcare industry. He was determined to reshape and refine the medical sector in the United States. The former commander in chief influenced healthcare regulations and proposed essential medical innovations such as Medicaid and Obamacare. He thus serves as the embodiment of a successful leader in the healthcare industry and the United States. This essay assesses the leadership values, characteristics, and styles of President Obama with regards to the DISC profile. What leadership insights has he left for those who are willing to take up his mantle ...

Introduction

The paper aims to shed light on the topic of emotional intelligence and determine the importance of emotional intelligence for effective leadership.

Emotional intelligence explained and example of the concept

Robbins, Judge & Sanghi (2010), in their book, described the concept of emotional intelligence as the ability of a person to realize his or her own emotions when experience them (to be self-aware), the ability of a person to detecting emotions in others, and the ability to manage emotional information and cues. For example, people who know their emotions and understand the reason behind their anger and deal with the situation without being angry and violating the norms ...

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 ...

Similarities between North American and Japanese Working Styles

Both North American and Japanese working styles suffer internal conflicts, ineffective communication, and poor decision making structures. Decision makers in Japanese companies created teams of consensus that led to slow decision making while in North American companies workers rushed into projects without enough planning. Managers in both situations provided indirect feedback leading to poor communication (Shah, Iqbal, Razaq, Yameen, Sabir, & Khan 127).

Differences

Japanese companies have different cultural attitudes to racial and gender diversity than North American companies do. Women in Japan are less take charge and outspokenly driven than women in North American companies, because their culture teaches ...

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Organizational Description Teen Challenge New England and New Jersey, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization. They provide youth, adults, and families with an effective and comprehensive Christian faith-based solution to drug, alcohol, and other life-controlling problems in order to become productive members of society. Their program is long-term and residential. They are privately supported and depend on the faithfulness of individuals, churches, businesses, and foundations. Their corporate headquarters are located in Brockton, Massachusetts and they have eight campuses located throughout New England and New Jersey. According to a recent audit, over 80% of all revenue is ...

Introduction

Leadership is the most discussed and researched area in an organization. On the other hand, organizational culture is studied rarely and its interaction with leadership styles is studied even less. According to the current research studies, behind every successful leader lay a vibrant organizational culture that engages and energizes employees. There are two schools of thoughts completely opposite to each other in their view of the interaction between leadership and organizational culture. Most of the current researchers believe that the organizational success depends on the ability of a leader to change his or her leadership style in accordance with the existing ...

The article that Szu-Fang Chuang (2013) wrote, entitled “Essential Skills for Leadership Effectiveness in Diverse Workplace Development”, provides a clear definition of the skills essential when conducting leadership in the workplace arena. It proves how the effectiveness of global leadership can solve developmental issues, whether it is social, business, economics, human resource, health, education, or even politics.

Summary

Global leadership has always been an issue, since it is vital to international business and the management of the workforce. Leadership is a main component of all types of organizations, and now that its function and capacity are getting more complicated, both managers and ...

Self-Reflection: Leadership Questionnaire

Society and organizations require strong and effective leadership. This requirement exists at all levels in the organization. I find everywhere; people are expressing their need for effective leadership. Though people ask for leadership, it is not often clear what exactly they want. There is a tool to bring out what do an individual mean by leadership. i.e. Conceptualizing Leadership Questionnaire. The scores received on this questionnaire give information about how people view leadership and what do they believe about leadership. Also, this questionnaire pinpoints how people approach leadership. The tool has 24 items in the inventory that can be completed ...

The current writing analyzes three articles that share a common subject: leadership, but while two of them focus on the relation between the traits and behaviors as relevant predictors to leadership, the other describes the situational leadership theory and extends the notions available in this research area. This paper will examine the following articles: “Situational Leadership: A Review of the Research” (Johansen, 1990) , “Trait and behavioral theories of leadership: an integration and meta-analytic test of their relative validity” (Derue, Nahrgan, Wellman & Humphrey, 2011) and “Personality and Transformational and Transactional Leadership Meta-Analysis” (Bono & Judge, 2004). Thesis Statement: These three articles ...

INTRODUCTION

The objective of this project is to assess the importance of strategic management in the healthcare industry. In order to effectively do so, the reasons for the development of strategic management model to address change management for sustainability and growth are separately evaluated. In addition, the differences between organizational change and transformational change have also been evaluated. To gain significant understanding regarding the topic of interest, an example of successful leadership models in today’s healthcare industry has been provided along with the tools that can be used for the assessment of leadership effectiveness.

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT MODEL IN HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY

Healthcare organizations are highly complex ...

Leadership Approach Paper

Leadership in organizations is very important because it determines the organization’s performance. Leadership effectiveness in organizations is best evaluated based on the impact of influence on a team, an individual, group or the whole organization. There are many approaches to leadership that can be used in an organization. Usually, these approaches could be based on the characteristics of followers, situations or the leaders themselves. One such approach is the power-influence approach.

The power influence theory of leadership explores the processes of influence between a leader and other individuals such as his seniors, colleagues and subordinates. This theory emphasizes on behavior ...

Introduction

Well-organized leaders possess a common characteristic; their capability to stimulate and inspire the followers to achieve valuable goals (Dubrin, 2010). The achievement of these goals is intensified after formulation of a strategic framework. This framework should consider the competitive environment, future uncertainty, human resource management, and financial management. In addition, leadership also involves being able to focus on a development of a plan through which the organizations operations will prevail in the future against uncertainty. However for many organizations, uncertainty has been a major challenge that has prevented these companies from implementing their future leadership assignments.

Dubrin (2010) further explains that well-organized leadership should ...