Leadership and Management
Introduction Whenever people interact in the organization, many factors come into play towards improving an organizations effectiveness. There are factors that influence the behavior of the employees in any organization. Behaviors such i.e. commitment, cooperation, satisfaction, decision-making, motivation, competitiveness, turnover ….. Etc, all impacts greatly the effectiveness of any organization. Leadership has sometimes been described…
Introduction Strategic formulation is the process of determining appropriate courses of action for achieving organisational objectives and thereby accomplishing organisational purpose. In a business context, it means what are the products and services the organisation will deliver, what type of market they will entry, which capabilities are required, how will they allocate the resources, and…
Introduction The writer had chosen Porters Generic Strategies as the research topic. The writer had done related analysis for the research. Organisations or companies that apply Porter’s Generic Strategies to seek competitive strategies to achieve and sustain competitive advantage as the competition among organisations or companies is getting more and more intense. The writer had…
Introduction Three of the most widely read books on competitive analysis in the 1980s were Michael Porter’s Competitive Strategy, Competitive Advantage, and Competitive Advantage of Nations. In his various books, Porter developed three generic strategies that, he argues, can be used singly or in combination to create a defendable position and to outperform competitors, whether…
1. INTRODUCTION The current paper attempts to underpin various frameworks that presented in strategy management literatures that would better improve the overall performance of the firms. The paper first discusses the case of southwest airlines, the first successful low-cost carrier in USA. Two problematic situations have considered from southwest Airlines cause experiences, which was to…
Introduction David Goleman argues that there exists a relationship between the six key leadership styles, an organization’s climate, and the elements of emotional intelligence. Goleman presents several ways through which the three concepts influence each other, whereby emotional intelligence according to Goleman, forms the basis of effective leadership in an organization. Goleman postulates that every…
Introduction In this leadership project the definition of participative will be given. There will also be some background given on what makes up a participative leader. The advantages and disadvantages of using this approach will be given and whether or not this approach worked in the group that I studied. The different leadership styles will…
Introduction One of the significant concepts in contemporary management is participative management (PM), their origin of which is traced by most writers in the academic literature to the post-World War II writings of scholars, such as Kurt Lewin, Douglas McGregor, Chris Argyris, H. Igor Ansoff, and Michael Porter (Kaufman , 2001). However, a number of…
Introduction Leadership approach is one of the most crucial aspects of organizations. The success of organizations is dependent largely on the type of leadership it has. Finkelstein, Hambrick & Cannella (2009) defines leadership as a type of authority due to the powers accorded to leaders in relation to their followers or subordinates. The literature on…
Introduction Employee motivation has been viewed by organizations as one of the most important areas of focus for a long time, and continues to remain so. Consequently it is among the most frequently explored and discussed topics in organizational studies. Over time, all the effort that has been devoted to the study of motivation has…
