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Leader In Love Ii, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article continues the analysis of the political consequences of leaders in love.

Leader In Love: A Political Psychological Perspective, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some possible political consequences of a national leader in love or experiencing lust as love.

A Case Study Of Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton's Leadership, Jim L. Kline

Theses and Graduate Projects

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was an Antarctica explorer who was not a well known person in the United States until the past two or three years. The reason for his recent rise back into prominence is because of the leadership example he displayed while leading the famous Endurance expedition from 1914 to 1916. The expedition did not achieve its objective of being the first to walk across Antarctica. The interest in Shackleton by students of management and leadership is because he rescued and led this expedition for almost two years, while they lived on the ice and a small island, …

Reweaving The Web Of Life: A Case Study Of A Feminist Leader In A Feminist Organization, Kathryn Ringham

Theses and Graduate Projects

The cultural context of the late twentieth century has given voice to new ways of thinking, knowing, being. Emerging out of the history and traditions of feminism is a style that is on the cutting edge in leadership studies. With emphasis on connection, humanity, interdependence, caring and empowerment of people, feminist leadership also echoes chaos theory. The reinvention of nature has allowed space within science for feminist values in the public realm. The mutual reinforcement of these two leadership theories has led to a simpler way to organize human endeavors.

This paper is based on feminist and chaos theories of …

First Nations Students: What Some Teachers Do That Make Them Successful, Robert M. Peacock Edd

Dissertations

With the European settlement of North America, the education of First Nations children shifted from being carried out in a natural setting by all community members, communicated through observation and trial, and instructed through values, needs, and traditions; to a whole-group learning model founded on a standard curriculum based on successes and failures. For at least the past fifty years First Nations adults have demanded greater control over their children's education. Recently, the Ministry of Education in British Columbia (BC) has advocated for greater success of First Nations students by providing funding for additional support and by increasing the number …

Perceptions Of International Students And University Personnel Of Cultural Adjustment Problems At Two Private Universities, John R. Jenkins Edd

Dissertations

The influx of international students studying at United States colleges and universities during the past five decades has presented many challenges related to accommodating the needs of these “special” students. In the early 1950s, fewer than 40,000 international students were enrolled within the higher education system of the U.S.; today that number has grown to more than 490,000 students. The problems confronted by these students are both numerous and complex. University personnel often address these problems by developing specific programs designed to meet the needs of the international students at their university. However, the perceptions of these problems by international …

Blinded By Vision, Craig A. Dowd

Theses and Graduate Projects

Conventional wisdom states vision is a requirement of husiness leadership, but the husiness community suffers from confusion and inconsistent application of the concept. A critical analysis of the concept reveals its popularity is based on rhetoric rather than a clear conceptualization of the term. (The term's literal meaning is the "experience of seeing God".) Without an academically useful definition, "vision" collapses under the weight of disparate and conflicting ideas. This thesis proposes that the problems with "vision" may be resolved by discarding the term completely and then separating the structure and function of leadership from the behavior of leaders and …

Florence Nightingale As Servant-Leader, Theresa Duffy

Theses and Graduate Projects

Florence Nightingale directed her adult life to serving God as a nurse, teacher and author. Through her creation of a school for nursing and her writings, Nightingale set the path for developing standard practices for nursing care along with founding the evolution of nursing as a professional career for women. As a leader Nightingale demonstrated courage in her ability to take great risks in order to create change, wisdom in her ability to communicate needed reforms, and her dedication to the ethical treatment of women and children by way of providing improved healthcare and education. This case study will examine …

Heroic Leadership: A Native American Legend, Sitting Bull 1831 - 1890, Charley Price

Theses and Graduate Projects

This research paper reviews and assesses the heroic leadership of the legendary Native America Sitting Bull. A significant leader of the Oceti Sakowin Nation, or commonly referred to as the Sioux Nation Sitting Bull demonstrates great charisma and courage in his efforts to save and maintain his people's traditional way of life. The Sioux way of life was gradually affected by the westward advancement of settlers and disrupted by the U.S. government's use of military force, in its quest to control Native American lands and expand the United States. Sitting Bull emerged as a heroic leader by gaining the support …

Alyque Padamsee : A Sense Of Wonder, P N Thirunarayana

IIMB Management Review

A byword in the fields of advertising and theatre, Alyque Padamsee headed the advertising agency Lintas for 14 years before he retired a few years ago. He is now an independent consultant with assignments as varied as Creative Consultant to McCann Ericsson, Communications Advisor to the Andhra Pradesh government, Communications Consultant to the Prime Minister's National Commission on Population, and making social documentaries on Aids and leprosy for the BBC and Doordarshan. In addition to his fifty years in advertising, Alyque Padamsee has been involved in theatre for fifty years, and has recorded his experiences in the autobiography, A Double …

Reflections On Leadership, G T Jejurikar

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.

Leadership Games : Experiential Learning For Organizational Development By Stephen S Kaagan, Response Books, 1999, Pp 187, Price: Rs 225 (Paperback)., Vijay Padaki

IIMB Management Review

T here are two ways of looking at this book. We can look at the 25 exercises that the author has described in near manual form or we may look at the experience of the author backing the exercises. Many trainers and consultants seeking additions or replacements to their wellworn (and worn out) repertoire of experiential exercises will welcome the collection. They will no doubt change the titles, modify the layout, and alter the operating details to display them as original creations, but if they benefit from the exercises, as I am sure they will, it will be a major …

Talking The Walk, J Ramachandran

IIMB Management Review

Sharing their perspectives on leadership in the IIMB invitation Seminar Panel Discussion were Lt Gen V R Raghavan, Kiran Mazumdar, Narendra Pani, Avtar Monga, and B V Jagadish.

Charismatic Leadership In Organisations By Jay A Conger And Rabindra N Kanungo, Sage Publications, 1998, Pp.228, Price $59.00 (Cloth), $25.95 (Paper)., V Uberoy

IIMB Management Review

This book is a continuation of the earlier research work published by the authors in 1988 in their book Charismatic Leadership. They trace its evolution in the intervening decade as an 'intellectual journey' undertaken by scholars on the subject. 

Leading To Win, Asha Bhandarke, P Singh

IIMB Management Review

The borderless world precludes immense complexity -complexity in the environment, in inter-organisational relationships,

Leadership In The Public Sector, K Kasturirangan, K Jairaj

IIMB Management Review

Sharing their perspectives on managing and leading in the public sector at the IIMB Invitation Seminar were K Kasturirangan, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation and Secretary, Department of Space, Government of India, a Padma Vibhushan awardee and recipient of the Indian Science Congress Association award. and K Juiraj, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation. Jairaj has a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton and a Masters in Public Administration and the Edward S Mason fellowship from Harvard. He has been awarded the PRSI Man of the year.

Natural Resources, Gender And Leadership, Smita Premchander

IIMB Management Review

Sustainable management of resources presents a great challenge and calls for strong leadership. Leaders are important as agents of change. They are able to motivate and increase the confidence of people, so that change can be achieved in organisations and in society. Leadership skills were once thought to be inborn but now it is recognised that they can be developed . The study of leadership has generated a vast amount of literature, most of which is in the context of organisational management. Most leadership theories are drawn from the corporate sector and their experiences.

Leadership In State Owned Enterprises, Reena Ramachandran

IIMB Management Review

Enterprise management has undergone revolutionary changes in the past decade in terms of structure, response mechanism, communication process, people relationships and involvement, environment and social concerns and gender dimensions.

Leadership : Myths And Realities Robert J Allio, 1999, New Delhi, Tata Mcgraw-Hill, Pp 237, Price: Rs 325 (Cloth)., K Unnikrishnan Nair

IIMB Management Review

There has been a spate of books on leadership in the recent past, and most of them promise far more than they deliver, conceptually and practically. Allio's book, however, comes as a pleasant surprise. Conceptually, Allio is rooted well. He doesn't consider leadership as an isolated phenomenon. Nor does he swear by any particular theory, theorist, approach, or paradigm. Leadership, for him, covers both the process of influencing as well as the quality of the influencer. Particularly, Allio emphasises that this process of leadership is a participative process, where, in accordance with the contextual needs, both the followers and the …

Managers As Leaders, Prasad Kalpa

IIMB Management Review

Discussing the leadership dimensions of executive development with Prasad Kaipa were Maj Gen Dr V Uberoy, of Pegasus HRD Centre , Bangalore; R Varadarajan of Mithya Institute for Learning and Knowledge Architecture; Vasanthi Srinivasan, Visiting Faculty, HR & OB, lIMB; N Balasubramanian, Visiting Professor and Chief Editor, liMB Management Review, and other members of the liMB faculty.

Capturing The Policy That Air Force Raters Use When Writing Performance Appraisals On Junior Officers, Owen D. Stephens

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the relationship between four dimensions of performance leadership, task performance, interpersonal facilitation, and job dedication and overall performance by junior officers in the Air Force. It was hypothesized that the four dimensions would have different relative importance to overall performance, ratee gender would have no effect on rating policy, and raters with greater experience would show greater rating consistency. Finally, it was hypothesized that the Conscientiousness factor of the International Personality Inventory Protocol and Positive and Negative Affectivity may be correlated with the relative importance of the four dimensions of performance and a rater leniency measure and …

An Exploratory Study Of Patient Satisfaction And Servant Leadership, Carol L. Watson Saunders

Theses and Graduate Projects

Servant Leadership is a theory of leadership in which the Servant Leader is motivated primarily by an intuitive desire to serve his/her followers. The leadership aspect is secondary. In this study, the concept of Servant Leadership was applied to the physician-patient relationship in a healthcare setting. The purpose of the research was to determine the satisfaction level of patients with their physicians. Questionnaires were mailed to one hundred randomly selected patients at a large mid-western outpatient clinic. Following are several of the questions included in the questionnaire. On the average, how long do you have to wait to see your …

Transformational Leadership: A Case Study Of Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights, Denise Cleveland

Theses and Graduate Projects

This case study will explore the leadership of Mary Robinson and demonstrate that she exemplifies transformational leadership as developed by Bemard Bass using his leadership factors of charisma, inspirational leadership, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration. Mary Robinson was the President of Ireland from 1990-1997 and currently serves as L)nited Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. This leader contributes toward the study of leadership through our ability to apply multiple models of effective leadership. A comparison to cultural competency theory and women centered theories of leadership are assessed in relation to this leader. Just as this case study demonstrates Robinson's effective …

The Challenge Of Leadership Formation, Ron E. M. Clouzet

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

Implications Of Early Brain Development On Child Care, Troy Dunkley

Theses and Graduate Projects

The goal of my research is to put together a paper that goes into enough detail about early brain research to convince the reader that child care centers must improve their quality and then to give an assessment of how the public can support the necessary changes. This is a Literature Review of writings and research on early brain development early childhood education and the suggestions to improve child care center quality. These changes are intended to get child care quality moving in the right direction.

The new research suggests that early childhood is critical to a child's healthy development …

Followership: Why Leadership Works, Gordon Thomas

Theses and Graduate Projects

Using the theory of followership developed by Robert Kelley, this case study will examine the role of the follower, the various types of followers present in organizations and their importance to the study of leadership. lt will examine an alternative theory by lra Chaleff and discuss current literature on the follower-leader relationship. This case study will then examine the followership skills of Agnes Anderson (name changed), through analysis of her followership self-assessment and the followership assessments completed by leaders she has worked with in both professional and volunteer situations and conclude with general observations on the topic.

Winning By Serving: A Case Study In Servant Leadership, Denise D. Gordon

Theses and Graduate Projects

The purpose for this case study was to apply a leadership theory to a leader. It was to discover what and who impacted the leader's leadership style. Conclusions indicate that the leader was operating with a core sense of ethical values, practices, and experience along with practicing good leaciership skills that model the Servant Leadership Theory. Evidence provided substantiates that this Ieader has had a significant impact not only on the organization but the followers as well.

Nurse Manager As Leader: Creating Community Within A Healthcare Organization, Theresa Marie Duffy

Theses and Graduate Projects

Healthcare organizations are searching for mechanisms that will encourage the employ and retention of skilled registered nurses. Traditional management styles have done little to create a nurturing and supportive workplace that encourages staff nurses to work in an inpatient setting. A non-traditional nurse manager as a leader, who exhibits relational and servant-leadership characteristics can facilitate a process of creating a workplace community with registered nurses that will not only provide a supportive environment, but will perform better as well. This paper explores the attributes of a non-traditional nurse manager that will promote the development of a workplace cornrnunity.

Establishing A 'Place Of Hope' In A Homeless Shelter For Families And Children, Annette E. Rodriguez

Theses and Graduate Projects

This project analyzes the critical leadership style of the management team, including this writer, in establishing "A Place of Hope' at a homeless shelter (The Shelter) for families and children located in a major city in the Upper Midwest Region. This project will assess the author's use of the following characteristics found in critical leadership: critical in nature, transformative in style, educative in form, and ethical in character (Foster, 1986, p.52). This project took place from 1999 to 2001.

Aligning Practice With Vision: Leadership For Developing Character And Employability Attributes, Douglas Archibald Hoey Edd

Dissertations

Leadership to achieve the development of character and employability attributes depends highly on one significant principle—aligning practice with vision. The purpose of this study was to investigate the leadership necessary to design and implement an intervention process to develop character and employability attributes in secondary school students. The work habit mark was the means of assessing the degree of success to which a student demonstrated the attributes. The research questions under investigation were: (1) Is there a change in the demonstration of work habits marks after the intervention, and (2) Do any changes in the demonstration of work habits marks …