Category: Leadership

Table of Contents Leadership and Storytelling Storytelling and Team Building Elements of Storytelling The Story The Story and the Problem References Leadership and Storytelling Engaging and inspiring are two of the most prominent and challenging leaders’ responsibilities. Although leadership is far from being a new concept, it gained considerable interest among researchers relatively late. As…

Introduction The efficiency and success of an organization greatly depend on the type of leadership approaches or strategies that are practiced in the corporate organization. According to some organizational change scholars, a leader must be capable of influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute to the success and efficiency of an organizational process (Maxwell, 2005;…

The questionnaire was directly related to the notion of path-goal leadership theory that “assigns responsibility for a work group’s effectiveness to leaders” that exhibit different behaviors, which may influence the impact of groups (Dixon & Kozloski Hart, 2010, p. 55). The result of the questionnaire for the directive style was 21, which is considered common.…

Introduction Headteachers’ leadership skills are of extreme importance for the efficient cooperation of teaching staff. At the same time, problem-solving skills are also vital since they help to decrease the amount of stress put in headteachers. The present paper offers a review of an article by Izgar (2008) with the title Headteachers’ Leadership Behavior and…

Every organization has a need to formally coordinate the pattern of interaction between the organizational members. Thus organizational structure can be defined as the process of allocating tasks, coordinating between organizational members, and formalizing the ‘who reports to whom’ concept. Strategy is the long term goal and the objectives of the company which helps in…

Table of Contents Responsibility to the Team Responsibility to Self Attributes of a Leader Concluding Remarks: What It Means to Be a Leader References At any point in life, a person may ask himself or herself about what it takes to be a leader. Such a question can arise in a variety of situations, whether…

Contents Insights Gained into Organisational Dynamics Importance of the Insights and Theories to Leadership Effectiveness My Current Effectiveness as a Leader Leadership Improvement Action Plan References Insights Gained into Organisational Dynamics Organisations should implement powerful models and behaviours depending on the targeted goals. The term “organisational dynamics” is widely used to examine how human capital…

Introduction Leadership is a complex phenomenon that can be roughly defined as the two-sided relationship between leaders and followers who work together with the same purpose to achieve shared goals (Avolio et al., 2016; Lewis and Donaldson-Feilder, 2012; Yammarino, 2013). One of the tools that can help in understanding leadership is the leadership capability framework,…

There are different leadership styles which include: democratic, authoritative, coaching, pacesetting, autocratic, and laissez- faire. All these styles have been employed in various organizations (Alkhawaja, 2017). These qualities demonstrate both positive and negative impacts on the specific institutions in which they are applied. The management techniques affect motivation of workers in service delivery, thus it…

Abstract Leadership is a crucial component of the operations of any given organization. It is a process of social influence in which an individual should be able to enlist the support and assistance of others so as to achieve a common goal. The focus of this paper is on the leadership of the California State…