Essays on Leadership Model

The Leadership Challenge – Leadership Credibility

According to Kouzes & Posner (2012), a good leader should be willing to follow, and honest person, forward-looking, inspiring and competent. These four traits are the key pillars of leadership as described by Kouzes and Posner. These two authors came up with this model after many decades of research in an attempt to investigate the qualities of good leadership, the changes in technology, the environment, and the society. According to their model, a leader is supposed to be a way maker. He or she should come up with sensible ways to overcome social problems experienced by his subject. The paper ...

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). ...

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Post-Bureaucratic Practices in Leadership

Introduction Leadership is always found at the pole position in the success of any organizational or business model and the research that took place during the 20th century was explicitly focused on investigating the role and vitality of leading and managing individuals in organizational structures emerged during bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic eras (Dischner, 2015, p. 501). The turning millennium also brought with it a significant shift and change in nature, environment and settings of the workplace that is now taken as perpetually changing, self-motivating, and dynamic avenues; where management and leadership approaches ...

Executive summary

This report is an analysis of the performance of Kodak over time since its inception. The report finds that the dismal performance of Kodak is largely as a result of the poor leadership elected to lead the company. The report traces the failures of the company to the hierarchical and toxic leadership styles that saw the company lag behind in joining the competitors in the migration to digital photography. The report concludes by highlighting the specific failures of leadership that cost the company a fortune had it transformed into digital promptly. The report recommends a series of actions to ...

Introduction

The list of Contemporary Business Leaders presents information about some of the greatest business leaders of the 21st Century. What they had in common is that they developed a vision and a mission and implemented it in order to establish their businesses and steer the businesses through different situations as they provided value to consumers. This paper will conduct an in-depth study into a major business leader of our time and review some of the elements and features unique to his leadership and governance styles. This individual will be reviewed is Jeff Bezos, co-founder of Amazon one of the ...

Cultural diversity is an asset as well as a challenge to business leaders the world over, especially those business leaders working in multinational organizations. Globalization is the current trend and it is certain that companies will continue to launch their businesses internationally in the future. The failure or success of a company is greatly hinged on the type of leadership style practiced and put in place in the organization. Hence, a multi- national company's management should use the kind of leadership style that would consider the various diversities that are present in the organization in addition to the host ...

Leadership in healthcare institutions is a difficult issue due to the distinct peculiarities of the industry, such as the need to continually think about allocating scarce resources, competition between healthcare institutions and a great role of followership (McKimm&Mannion, 2015, p.270). A crucial feature of the work of a leader in the sphere of healthcare is that such leader shall simultaneously be a good ethicist with strong decision-making abilities (Ledlow& Coppola, 2014, p.237). Leadership is also about creativity. Recently I took a quiz to get to know my degree of creativity, and found out that I am very creative (75/116) ( ...

Introduction

The capability to shape and develop the leadership abilities of the members of the organization so as to fulfill organizational needs and demands is a complicated and challenging component of the general leadership development process. Leaders are responsible for the achievement of organizational goals, as well as for their followers' performance needed to attain the desired outcome. However, this is not an easy task. Widget PLC has problems with their leadership as revealed by decreasing employee motivation and managerial performance. This paper discusses and analyzes the relevance of transformational leadership and authentic leadership to the problem of Widget PLC. ...

1 What is your vision for a new and improved healthcare environment and what needs to change for your vision to become a reality? As a healthcare professional my vision has always been to provide safe, effective and affordable health care services to the community. A number of players contribute to the health care system: the service providers, payers, suppliers of medicines and other inputs. Thus, the biggest challenge is to collaborate the different actions of the stakeholders in the healthcare system and to effectively execute once vision. It is not possible for a single dedicated person to achieve ...

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Study Overview Dissertation title: Managing Safety from the Top: The Influence of Senior Managers’ Characteristics Purpose: Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen The description of senior managers by literature manager is that they are crucially influencing the safety of organization. Yet it has not been completely understood, their influence is contributed by. Thus, the thought was to investigating characteristics of senior managers with respect to their impact toward safety in management organizations in the air traffic. A safety literature review indicated that research in the area would gain from introduction of ...

Leadership in nursing has many facets, and can incorporate establishing a clear objective or target, organizing nursing activities effectively and providing motivation for others to achieve the organizational goals (Porter-O’Grady, 2003). On a daily basis, leadership in nursing could also require a senior nurse to coordinate the activities of the nurses on staff, as well as any support staff. The operation and efficiency of any hospital can depend on how effective it senior nurses are at managing shifts, employee morale and a host of problems and issues that can crop up on a regular basis. Thus, the management ...