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Strategies For Sustainability In Multilevel Marketing Organizations, Nicole Renea Cordell
Strategies For Sustainability In Multilevel Marketing Organizations, Nicole Renea Cordell
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The number of entrepreneurs in the direct sales industry has steadily increased since 2010; however, the annual turnover rate is 56%. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore multilevel marketing (MLM) entrepreneurial leadership strategies implemented to help ensure sustainability of entrepreneurial MLM businesses for longer than 5 years. Purposive sampling was used to recruit 10 entrepreneurs who maintained an MLM business more than 5 years and used a hierarchical status that required a team. The transformational leadership theory constituted the conceptual framework for researching leadership as a concept of entrepreneurship and sustainability in MLM. Data were collected …
Effective Strategies For Managing Continuous Consultant Turnover In It Project Teams, Nicholas K. Jury
Effective Strategies For Managing Continuous Consultant Turnover In It Project Teams, Nicholas K. Jury
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Information Technology project managers have found that collective turnover of consultants lowers code quality, increases knowledge loss and negatively impacts team performance. Within the last decade, companies have begun to see that offshore consultants have a turnover rate greater than 26%, more than double the rates for the rest of the IT consulting industry. Collective turnover also puts additional pressure on the project team, causing work exhaustion and thus additional turnover. The purpose of this single case study was to explore strategies that 6 successful project managers utilized to limit and reduce the impact of collective turnover of their hybrid …
Strategies To Implement Succession Planning In A Nonprofit, Talecia Y. Parks
Strategies To Implement Succession Planning In A Nonprofit, Talecia Y. Parks
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Surveys of nonprofit organizations conducted between 2004 and 2014 showed that 74% of the 6,923 leaders surveyed did not have a succession plan. In this qualitative single case study, the human capital theory was used as a guide to explore strategies used to implement a succession plan by 3 nonprofit leaders in a single nonprofit organization in a large metropolitan city in Southeastern Georgia. The participants were selected based on their implementation of succession plan strategies and geographical location. Semistructured interviews and document review were used to collect the data, which were analyzed using Yin's 5-step approach. Three themes emerged: …
A Grounded Theory Of Emergent Leadership In Nonhierarchical Virtual Teams, Randall Fleming
A Grounded Theory Of Emergent Leadership In Nonhierarchical Virtual Teams, Randall Fleming
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
A Grounded Theory of Emergent Leadership in Nonhierarchical Virtual Teams
by
Randall David Fleming
MS, Colorado Technical University, 2008
BA, The Ohio State University, 1984
Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
Management
Walden University
November 2018
Risk Management Strategies To Prevent And Mitigate Emerging Operational Security Threats, Nancy Page Larrimore
Risk Management Strategies To Prevent And Mitigate Emerging Operational Security Threats, Nancy Page Larrimore
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Dependence on technology brings security compromises that have become a global threat that costs businesses millions of dollars. More than 7.6 million South Carolinians incurred effects from the 162 security breaches reported in 2011-2015. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the risk management strategies small business leaders use to prevent and mitigate operational security threats that produce financial losses. The population for this study consisted of 6 business leaders in South Carolina who have demonstrated successful experience in preventing and mitigating operational security threats. Transformational leadership theory provided the conceptual framework for exploring the overreaching research …
A Study Of Groupthink In Project Teams, John Reaves
A Study Of Groupthink In Project Teams, John Reaves
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Project teams advance a common goal by working together on projects that require a diverse set of skills and are difficult for 1 person to complete. In this study, there was an exploration of the antecedents to groupthink in project teams from the perspectives of project managers. Many companies use project managers to complete critical objectives; avoiding groupthink is crucial to their success. The purpose of this research was to understand why project teams are susceptible to groupthink and what precautions managers can take to avoid it. The conceptual framework utilized in this study was Janis' concept of groupthink, which …
Leadership Skills To Sustain High-Tech Entrepreneurial Ventures, Zoaib Z. Rangwala
Leadership Skills To Sustain High-Tech Entrepreneurial Ventures, Zoaib Z. Rangwala
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
High-tech (HT) innovation-oriented entrepreneurs start 35% more ventures and create 10% more jobs in the first 5 years of operation than the rest of the private sector and drive significant economic growth across all industries; however, more than 50% of the entrepreneurial HT ventures fail during the first 5 years of operations. Guided by the conceptual framework of transformational leadership theory, the purpose of this multicase study was to explore skills used by successful entrepreneurial leaders to sustain their HT ventures in Silicon Valley, California. Data collection was from 8 participants in semistructured 1-on-1 interviews and 3 participants in a …