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Speech At Business Executives For Economic Justice Meeting, C. William Pollard Nov 1992

Speech At Business Executives For Economic Justice Meeting, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Speaking at a meeting of Business Executives for Economic Justice (University Club-Chicago), Pollard addresses the negative economic trends prevalent at the beginning of the 1990s and calls for a moral framework that will help steer the free market system in a positive direction.


Speech At Florida Southern College, C. William Pollard Oct 1992

Speech At Florida Southern College, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

In this speech at Florida Southern College (Lakeland, FL), Pollard considers how the free-market system can be a force for good if only business leaders would conceive of themselves as stewards of any given firm's greatest asset, namely its people.


A Leadership Development Instrument For College Students, Barry Z. Posner, Barbara Brodsky May 1992

A Leadership Development Instrument For College Students, Barry Z. Posner, Barbara Brodsky

Management & Entrepreneurship

Few people question the importance of leadership in organizational effectiveness, even though there is little agreement about how to develop leaders. Nevertheless, nearly every college and university has established some sort of leadership education program for students (Hirschorn, 1988), demonstrating a belief that leadership can be learned and enhanced through an educational process.


Leading By Serving - Renewal Of Focus On Others, C. William Pollard Apr 1992

Leading By Serving - Renewal Of Focus On Others, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

In remarks delivered to the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago, Pollard notes that a radically changing socio-political climate calls for business leaders committed to serving the people that make up their organizations.


Women In Leadership National Conference 1992: Women, Communication And Power, Margaret Butterworth (Ed.) Jan 1992

Women In Leadership National Conference 1992: Women, Communication And Power, Margaret Butterworth (Ed.)

Research outputs pre 2011

Victorian feminist lawyer and social activist, Dr. Jocelynne Scutt, confronted the issue of women and power by drawing upon a powerful reading of stories from women. These stories, drawn from ordinary and not so ordinary women, showed the barriers that face women as they attempt to deal with a daily reality infused with masculine power, violence, fright, shame, and self-realization. She spoke poignantly of a world that is all to familiar to women; women whose capacities have been curbed sharply by a common theme in their lives: domination and coercion...


The Configuration Of Performance Appraisal: Investigating The Impact Of Leadership And Personality Using A Within- And Between-Supervisory Group Analysis, Steve Markham, W D. Murry, Dow Scott Jan 1992

The Configuration Of Performance Appraisal: Investigating The Impact Of Leadership And Personality Using A Within- And Between-Supervisory Group Analysis, Steve Markham, W D. Murry, Dow Scott

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The key to improvfrig performance appraisals in organizations may be the leadership exchange processes that occur between managers and subordinates. We suggest two ways in which this might unfold: (a) the direct relationships among leadership attention, tenure with supervisor, and actual performance appraisal rating and (b) the cqnfiguration of these three variables around the organization's structure in which differences between supervisory groups are highlighted. Our findings suggest that all three variables are significantly related. For leadership attention and performance appraisal, an individual-level model best applies. A group model is implied for leaders~ip attention and tenure with supervisor, whereby entire supervisory …