Download or read book Role Performance of Formal and Informal Leaders written by Palanisamy Sundarambal and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book entitled "Role performance of formal and informal leaders" A comparative studyin agricultural production, was mainly aimed to analyse the role performance of formal and informal leaders. This book covers different characteristics of these leaders as well as their relationship with the role performance. The ways and means to improve the role performance of the leaders were also covered. This book would give an idea to the change agents to draw suitable extension strategy to make the effective utilization of these leaders for agricultural development.As the informal leaders performed more roles than the formal leaders with regard to agriculture, the extension workers can seek their help in transfer of technology and execution of agricultural development programmes.

Download or read book Informal Leadership written by Marcia Smart and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informal Leadership Tap Into a Hidden Gold Mine! Are you looking for creative ways to improve your team's performance? Do you have to work harder and smarter, or produce more with the same or less resources? Informal Leadership uncovers a valuable human resource hidden inside your group. In this simple and practical book you will discover who these influential leaders are and what drives them, and will be able to increase your success by learning how to tap their talents and skills to: - Increase innovation and performance - Stay ahead of the game - Make more impactful changes - Exceed expectations Informal Leadership provides a short and effective route to mobilize your people-and produce outstanding results. It also provides fresh insights on how to inspire your Informal Leaders and leverage their strengths to achieve results way beyond what is expected. Author Bio: Marcia Smart, Ph.D. is a Leadership Strategist and Inspirational Speaker with over 25 year's experience in corporate and business leadership. In addition to her doctorate in Adult Development, Organizational Learning, she has a Master's in Business Administration. Dr. Smart's diverse clients include Fortune 500 companies, professional associations, universities, faith-based organizations and nonprofits. Visit: www.informalleadership.com

Download or read book Informal Leadership Strategy and Organizational Change written by Brenetia J. Adams-Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the spectrum of organizational operations, workplace interactions have proven to be one of the most difficult activities for leaders to manage effectively, especially during any level of change. In these circumstances, leadership strategies, especially related to change and leadership transition, consistently fail at an alarming rate. Additionally, employee engagement and team collaboration continue to be among the most elusive concepts for those in leadership to master. This book explores the influence of the informal leader on team member engagement during major change initiative in the organizational paradigm, with a special emphasis on leaders who are new to the team composite. This book examines the role of the informal leader in promoting or hindering team member engagement and organizational citizenship behaviors in change dynamics with a focus on change in the leadership structure and major initiatives. The relationship between the formal and informal leader is explored to assess impact on team interactions and capacity to effectively execute change strategies. This book provides critical information to aid in organizations achieving long-term success and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of leadership, organizational studies, strategy, and human resource management.

Download or read book Relationships Between the Informal Organization and the Effectiveness of Formal Leaders written by Abner Thomas Hollingsworth and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Performance Mindset written by Anthony J. Klarica and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the lessons of elite athletes to reach your full potential From acclaimed psychologist Anthony Klarica, The Performance Mindset: 7 steps to success in sport and life reveals the lessons of high-performing athletes and shows how you can build strategies to apply for greater success in sport, business or in your personal life. High performers are made, not born. High performance occurs through putting a careful and deliberate focus on growing mindset, and science proves that high-performers intentionally build these mindset skills and habits to maximise their opportunities. Talent and hard work are simply not enough. Through candid, in-depth interviews and stories from a wide variety of Australian athletes, you’ll learn how to: harness and maintain your motivation become resilient stay focussed and present lead yourself and others protect your mental health and wellbeing. Natural talent doesn’t necessarily equal high performance. With The Performance Mindset: 7 steps to success in sport and life, you’ll discover how to unleash your inner-champion and realise your full and unbridled potential, whether in sport, in business, or in life.

Download or read book Leading Outside the Lines written by Jon R. Katzenbach and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-new approach to understanding the (in)formal connections of an organization From the bestselling coauthor of the business classic The Wisdom of Teams comes an all-new exploration of the modern workplace, and how leaders and managers must embrace it for success. Katzenbach and Khan examine how two distinct factions together form the bigger picture for how organizations actually work: the more defined "formal" organization of a company-the management structure, performance metrics, and processes-and the "informal"-the culture, social networks, and ad hoc communities that spring up naturally and can accelerate or hinder how the organization works. With dynamic examples from enterprises around the world, this book takes a timeless organizational approach and creates a powerful paradigm-shifting tool set for applying it. Includes self-assessment guidelines for senior leaders, front-line managers, and individual contributors Features organizations in business, government, the nonprofit sector, and academia-including the New York City schools system, Aetna, the Marines, United Nations, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Home Depot, Bell Canada, and the Houston Police Department Leading Outside the Lines illustrates how leaders can make the two distinct factions work together to get the best of both.

Download or read book The Leader of the Future 2 written by Frances Hesselbein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leader of the Future 2 follows in the footsteps of the international bestseller The Leader of the Future, which has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and is one of the most widely distributed edited collections on leadership to date. In twenty-seven inspiring and insightful essays, this book celebrates the wisdom of some of the most recognized thought leaders of our day who share their unique vision of leadership for the future. Returning Contributors: Ken Blanchard with Dennis Carey, Stephen Covey, Marshall Goldsmith, Charles Handy, Sally Helgesen, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner, Richard Leider, Ed Schein, Peter Senge, and Dave Ulrich with Norm Smallwood. New Contributors: John Alexander, Darlyne Bailey, Howard Gardner with Lynn Barendsen, Usman Ghani, Ronald Heifetz, Joe Maciariello, Jan Masaoka, John Mroz, Brian O'Connell, Jeff Pfeffer, Ponchitta Pierce, Srikumar Rao, General Eric Shinseki, R. Roosevelt Thomas, Noel Tichy with Chris DeRose, and Tom Tierney. "Hesselbein and Marshall Goldsmith, one of the USA's top executive coaches, edited the collection The Leader of the Future 2. Its 27 eloquent essays provide a kind of hopeful, idealistic best-case scenario for future leaders of non-profits and businesses. This is not a cookie-cutter, how-to approach. The job of the essayists is to provide food for thought and goals. The high quality of writing here should inspire anyone who has aspirations for leadership." —Bruce Rosenstein, USA Today

Download or read book Radical Transformational Leadership written by Monica Sharma and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monica Sharma describes how we can source our inner capacities and wisdom to manifest change that embodies universal values such as dignity, compassion, fairness, and courage. Drawing on more than twenty years of work for the United Nations and elsewhere, she presents a radical new approach to transformational leadership, one that creates systems of change where everyone can engage—not just analysts and policy-makers. Demonstrating that we all can be architects of a new humanity, Monica demystifies policy-making, planning, and implementation so that everyone can play an informed and strategic part in eradicating the world’s most intractable problems. Using real-life examples from around the world, she shows how our innate characteristics of universal compassion, equity impulse, and human capability can create new patterns that effectively address major challenges such as gross inequality, unbridled hate, conflicts based on social identity, and the never-enough mindset of greed. Written in a straightforward, accessible style, Radical Transformational Leadership outlines a path-breaking paradigm shift that is already generating equitable and sustainable results across the globe. Winner of the Nautilus Gold Award for Business and Leadership

Download or read book Leadership in Groups written by Mitchell D. Stratton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Introduction to Business written by Lawrence J. Gitman and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-16 with total page 1455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Download or read book Empowering Formal and Informal Leadership While Maintaining Teacher Identity written by Zugelder, Bryan S. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher leadership remains at the forefront of conversations in teacher education, with discussions on recruitment, retention, and effectiveness. Teachers are at the core of schooling, and the roles they assume and types of leadership they engage in are multi-dimensional. Teacher leadership comes in many shapes and definitions. In this sense, both opportunities and challenges exist in teacher leadership. While national competencies continue to define dispositional and knowledge base for teacher leaders, there is still work to be done to define and add to the body of scholarship on this topic. Teacher leadership opportunities provide development for teachers as a key retention strategy; however, role ambiguity presents challenges in how to empower teachers for formal and informal roles of leadership while maintaining the teacher identity. Empowering Formal and Informal Leadership While Maintaining Teacher Identity provides a comprehensive look at the opportunities and challenges of teacher leadership, drawing on research and practice that add to the body of knowledge for teacher leadership, which is a niche in education that differs from educational administration. Highlighted topics within this book include models for teacher leadership, teacher education, types of leadership roles, the development and retention of teacher leaders, and leadership across different types of school districts. This book is ideally designed for inservice and preservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in teacher leadership roles and the way in which teacher identity is maintained in relation to these other leadership positions.

Download or read book The Foreman RLE Organizations written by David Dunkerley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foreman is usually regarded as a filter in a chain of command in industrial organizations. In this book, however, the author suggests that this view is not adequate, and he proposes instead a model of analysis which employs a systems perspective. The role of the foreman is seen in terms of the interaction of three sub-systems representing the organization, the group and the individual. The book is based on the work of researchers from many disciplines and employs a sociological framework to account for the peculiar strains, conflict and ambiguities associated with the foreman’s role.

Download or read book The Critical Few written by Jon R. Katzenbach and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a global survey by the Katzenbach Center, 80 percent of respondents believed that their organization must evolve to succeed. But a full quarter of them reported that a change effort at their organization had resulted in no visible results. Why? The fate of any change effort depends on whether and how leaders engage their culture: the self-sustaining patterns of behaving, feeling, thinking, and believing that determine how things are done in an organization. Culture is implicit rather than explicit, emotional rather than rational--that's what makes it so hard to work with, but that's also what makes it so powerful. For the first time, this book lays out the Katzenbach Center's proven methodology for identifying your culture's four most critical elements: traits, characteristics that are at the heart of people's emotional connection to what they do; keystone behaviors, actions that would lead your company to succeed if they were replicated at a greater scale; authentic informal leaders, people who have a high degree of "emotional intuition" or social connectedness; and metrics, integrated, thoughtful measures to track progress, encourage the self-reinforcing cycle of lasting change and link to business performance. By leveraging these critical few elements, you can tap into a source of catalytic change within your organization. People will make an emotional, not just a rational, commitment to new initiatives. You will elicit enthusiasm and creativity and build the kind of powerful company that people recognize for its innate value and effectiveness.

Download or read book Informal Leaders and Their Influence on Information System Organisations written by Edgar Hernandez Rojas and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of informal leaders to supplement a lack of effective formal leadership is not uncommon in many workplaces, including information system (IS) organisations. Informal leaders--defined as leaders that do not hold a formal leadership position, authority or hierarchical level granted by the organisation to control the work team--exercise power through authentic leadership and often achieve important goals. The literature to date has examined informal leadership mostly in relation to electronic interactions, characteristics and qualities, levels of responsibility and authority, individual and group performance, social interactions and energetic activation, and largely in the organisational change domain. IS literature has yet to define and explain informal leadership within IS organisations, particularly in developing countries where often complex and unique sociocultural factors shape such leadership. This thesis develops a conceptual framework for identifying and defining informal leaders in IS organisations from a new perspective, considering their characteristics and behaviours, the nature of their leadership, organisational culture, and social context. Two research questions are addressed: 1) what are the characteristics and behaviours that define and identify informal leaders in IS organisations? and 2) what is the nature of the leadership exerted by informal leaders in IS organisations? The conceptual framework is based on the theoretical framework of leadership, with this research incorporating the context, type of organisation and nature of leadership. The findings demonstrate the developed framework's usefulness for identifying the characteristics and behaviours, nature of leadership (opinion, social and technical) and extent of influence exerted within an organisation. These results can help IS leaders create strategies to develop formal leaders and improve both the work environment and people mobility decisions. The thesis used a qualitative case study to uncover the underlying issues and mechanisms in a real-world setting. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather data from employees of different levels and roles within an IS organisation in Mexico (n=15). Interviews were conducted virtually using the Microsoft Teams program due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants answered 20 questions during 20- to 55-minute interviews. Their responses provided data that were extracted and analysed using NVivo software. Transcription and interpretation were conducted by the researcher, who is a Mexican native with a strong understanding of local cultures. This thesis makes several contributions. First, it opens a new avenue of research into an important and underexplored area of leadership within IS organisations. It also elucidates the complex interactions between IS leadership and the sociocultural context of Mexico, a developing country with unique organisational characteristics. This study fills gaps in the literature regarding the nature of the leadership exercised by informal leaders in IS organisations by defining and identifying the characteristics and behaviours they display. Previous studies documented 27 characteristics and 11 behaviours, which have been identified in the present thesis; however, this thesis also identifies three new characteristics (congruence, creativity and resilience) and four new behaviours ('first to raise their hand to help', 'facilitator of communication between users and technologists', 'quick response' and 'talks openly about project risks'). The findings' generalisability is limited due to the research case study being undertaken in a single specific sociocultural and organisational context. However, similar results could be obtained by applying the study design in similar contexts. The proposed conceptual framework helps identify informal leaders in IS organisations and is applicable to small- to medium-sized companies in developing countries (based on empirical evidence derived from a case study in Mexico). This research provides a foundation for future investigations into the levels of influence wielded by formal and informal leadership and the effects of that influence within an organisation. Future research could use other approaches, such as sociometric methods, and quantitatively determine the support that an informal leader could obtain from their followers based of the nature of their leadership (opinion, social or technical).

Download or read book Principles of Management written by David S. Bright and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black & white print. Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.

Download or read book Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing written by Bessie L. Marquis and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing an experiential, active learning approach to leadership and management, the 10th Edition of this best-selling text equips students for success in the ever-changing, increasingly challenging professional nursing workforce. Current, comprehensive coverage details the responsibilities of high-performing middle- and top-level nursing managers — from managing conflict and working collaboratively to organizing patient care and staffing. Hundreds of engaging, hands-on learning exercises enhance students’ critical-thinking and problem-solving skills and provide them with essential practice in making leadership and management decisions before they enter high-stakes, real-world clinical settings. Updated content equips students with the latest clinical practices and perspectives in quality and safety, the influence and use of technology, healthy workplaces, workplace violence/incivility, quality measurement/benchmarking, healthcare reform/reimbursement, change management, interprofessional teams and more. New evidence-based case studies prepare students to confidently address the growing opioid crisis. More than 280 learning exercises challenge students to apply concepts to a range of practice situations and healthcare settings. Examining the Evidence features in each chapter familiarize students with new research findings, evidence-based practice and best practices in leadership and management. Break-Out Comments reinforce key ideas at a glance. Content Crosswalks tie chapter content to the latest AACN, AONL, QSEN and ANA standards and competencies to clarify and emphasize clinical relevance. A detailed instructor’s manual on thePoint helps you make the most of the active learning exercises in your classroom.

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Organizations 31 vols written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 9483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-issuing volumes originally published between 1949 and 1995 this 31 volume set examines the theory and behaviour of organizations. Topics covered include: the sociology of work leadership and organizations politics at work theory and practice of company organization patterns of business organization company strategy and organizational design.