Leading Class Discussion on Abusive leadership: Synthesis

For the class discussion, we decided on a “real-world” example and an additional empirical study to build on the knowledge of the topic of abusive leadership – which is usually regarded as abusive supervision in literature. The “real-world” example used was a YouTube video called the “boss from hell”. The video depicts a situation in … Read more

Leadership in nursing (observation)

Leadership is important in any setting where people aim to be successful and productive in their work. In the setting of nursing, leadership is something that is required to be sure patients are receiving the best care possible, to ensure that no mistakes are being made, and to have proper delegation between hospital staff so … Read more

Collaborative Leadership

1. Introduction Leaders within health care organisations have traditionally viewed their role as a transactional activity (Vanvactor, 2012). The definition of health care management tends to be hierarchical and often grounded in the idea of facilitating management linearly. To facilitate change, health care organisations are beginning to evaluate defined management roles outside of traditional parameters. … Read more

Leadership (on board ships)

A Leader, or in our case a Masters Career and the fate of his vessel and Bridge team are determined by the effectiveness of his behavior. Leadership is considered crucial for success and has been considered by most researchers to be the most critical ingredient (Lussier and Achua 2009). I would describe a leader as … Read more

Leadership – Getting To the Essentials

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine critically the essentials of leadership, with a particular focus on the things that make an individual emerge as an informal leader in the workplace. There are some tasks that are best managed by team members who are skilled and have a lot of expertise. The paper … Read more

Self-deception among leaders

Self-deception among leaders is a prevalent issue in organizations today. The inability of a leader to recognize that he/she may be the root cause of some of the problems found within their circle of influence renders them ineffective at leading, and hinders productive follower-leader relationships. When leaders are trapped in the box of self-deception they … Read more

Hindrances to Effective Teams

It can be reasonably argued that the business environment in which organizations now operate is ever-changing, highly uncertain, and increasingly competitive. Because of this dynamic fundamental shift in the business environment, organizational leaders are recognizing that long-term success hinges on the ability of leaders to develop and maintain effective and high performance teams. The collective … Read more

Women and leadership

“It takes a full-blown crisis for organizations to bring in women to key leadership positions. Either women don’t take risk or it all else man dominated society. Organizations wait until a crisis to bring women into positions of power because they realize the current strategy is not working and new approach is needed.” Caroline Fairchild … Read more

Leadership in the Navy

“Rails joined with each other in a railway” Does that could ever happen? If so let’s see how it could happen. It is better to extract something up to understandable level before it is going to be explained. What are socio- economic norms? Socio-economic norms mean how social activities combine with economic situations and bring … Read more

Leadership in childcare

Introduction “It’s not the strongest or the most intelligent leaders who will survive but those who can best manage change” Charles Darwin. (n.d.) Early learning and Childcare is in the process of a huge transformation and expansion. Building the Ambition (Scottish Government, 2014) supports the Governments ambition for Early Learning and Childcare and provides practitioners … Read more

Impact of Ethical Leadership on Innovative Work Behavior – A conceptual framework

Abstract Innovative Work Behavior forms a crucial source for gaining competitive advantage and its development gives a dominant challenge which is faced by several organizations. In this paper positive role of Ethical Leadership (at individual and collective levels) is proposed to positively impact Innovative work Behavior by employing the theory of decomposed planned behavior. We … Read more

Leadership in conflict situations

“Many  leaders  in conflict situations are ‘hostages’ to their inner fears and other negative emotions and fail to see the opportunities in resolving them”  . In fact, it is an opportunity if conflict is dealt with constructively. Leadership is a vast and important subject, yet full of confusing ideas and terminology, open to widely different … Read more

An excellent global leader

1. How would you describe an excellent global leader? An excellent global leader is a leader who is able to influence the success of an organization. There are many different qualities that can help to achieve this. For a global leader it’s important to make the right decisions to determine and successfully execute strategy. Most … Read more

How should companies organize their future strategy for leadership development?

In the current economy with fast changes due to globalization and digitalization good leadership could play a crucial role, and in order to have good leaders companies need to define a strategy for leadership development. It is even said that ‘‘companies that fail to invest continuously in the leaders of tomorrow may find themselves falling … Read more

Leadership, and leadership qualities

From the beginning of time, leadership has been the core in executing our daily life. Leadership is a process of where a person refers as leader helps to guide, manage or instruct another person or a group in order to achieve the goal while executing their tasks. Leadership exists in an organization, family member and … Read more