What Is the Impact of a Certain Leadership Style on Business? A Closer Look On a Business Unit

What Is the Impact of a Certain Leadership Style on Business? A Closer Look On a Business Unit
Author: Alexandra Vacaretiu
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2020-11-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3346299597

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Leadership and Human Resource Management - Management Styles, grade: 10.00, , language: English, abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to determine the impact of leadership styles on the business. Specifically, the paper is aimed at defining the relationship between the leadership style and a certain unit performance. To this objective, the first chapter introduces the reader to the leadership concept, shows its importance in the daily life and its correlations with the HR field. The theoretical insights into the leadership phenomena and its effects on the business are provided by the paper’s state of the art. Subsequently, the chapter of methodology presents the objective of the research and briefly the chosen company that the study is conducted on. It also defines the variables and describes the process of data collection and the participants. The chosen company is NN Group Romania, specifically, the NN subsidiary in Brasov, from which one of its units was empirically analysed. The analysed leadership styles are transformational and transactional types as I consider them to be the fundamentals of the styles. They serve as independent variables in the study. The SPSS software tests these variables for a potential correlation with the dependent variable, which is unit performance. The data was provided by twelve participants, consisting of one leader and eleven followers, who answered an online survey constructed in Sosci Survey. Further, the chapter of practical approach starts with the explicit description of the company. Moreover, in order to generate numerical values for describing the relation between the variables, a linear regression model was implemented and interpreted. This chapter ends with recommendations to the company after proving that there are two positive correlations between the leadership styles and the unit performance in the chosen unit of NN Romania. Both transformational and transactional leadership influence the unit performance, and thus they have a positive impact on the business. Eventually, the conclusion of this paper summarizes the most significant concepts and findings as well as offers a personal perspective on the study.

Leadership That Gets Results (Harvard Business Review Classics)

Leadership That Gets Results (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Author: Daniel Goleman
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633692639

A leader's singular job is to get results. But even with all the leadership training programs and "expert" advice available, effective leadership still eludes many people and organizations. One reason, says Daniel Goleman, is that such experts offer advice based on inference, experience, and instinct, not on quantitative data. Now, drawing on research of more than 3,000 executives, Goleman explores which precise leadership behaviors yield positive results. He outlines six distinct leadership styles, each one springing from different components of emotional intelligence. Each style has a distinct effect on the working atmosphere of a company, division, or team, and, in turn, on its financial performance. Coercive leaders demand immediate compliance. Authoritative leaders mobilize people toward a vision. Affiliative leaders create emotional bonds and harmony. Democratic leaders build consensus through participation. Pacesetting leaders expect excellence and self-direction. And coaching leaders develop people for the future. The research indicates that leaders who get the best results don't rely on just one leadership style; they use most of the styles in any given week. Goleman details the types of business situations each style is best suited for, and he explains how leaders who lack one or more of these styles can expand their repertories. He maintains that with practice leaders can switch among leadership styles to produce powerful results, thus turning the art of leadership into a science. The Harvard Business Review Classics series offers you the opportunity to make seminal Harvard Business Review articles a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world—and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.

A Closer Look at Organizational Culture in Action

A Closer Look at Organizational Culture in Action
Author: Süleyman Davut Göker
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2021-01-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839625783

Values, attitudes, and behaviors constitute an organization’s culture and employees both share and use them on a daily basis in their work. This book aims to briefly portray a new interpretation of organizational culture varying from the profusion of literature in the following ways: it attempts to include how cultures are created organically or through consistent planning and action in different organizations such as education, business, and health; focusing more on change, innovation, and learning opportunities. It also aims to provide leaders with experiences and reflections on how to initiate an organizational culture change. Finally, this book is expected to extend new perspectives and practices for both potential and actual managers of organizations contributing to the current debate on how to transform organizations into innovative and learning cultures.

The Impact of Leadership Styles on Organizational Effectiveness

The Impact of Leadership Styles on Organizational Effectiveness
Author: Talha Iqbal
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2011-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3656032610

Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, course: Management Sciences, language: English, abstract: The purpose of the dissertation is to analyze the relationship between leadership styles and organizational effectiveness of IT firms in Karachi. After the survey sent in the IT firm in Karachi it has been come into notice that leadership style affects the effectiveness of IT organization. Four different types of leaders are found which are listed as dictator, democratic, visionary and free rein leader. All these styles have an impact on organizational effectiveness. Dictator and visionary styles influence positively, whereas others negatively. The visionary or transformational style yield most organizational effectiveness. So this is the best style to be used. The different dimensions used to define organizational effectiveness in IT industry are employee morale, organizations competitive position, customer satisfaction, management satisfaction, ability to introduce organizational change, market share of the firm. It is better to use transformational leadership style in most cases but sometimes autocratic style can also be used. Autocratic leadership style should be used when the employee is young/fresh in the industry. They actually need direct guidance and concrete explanation about task.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies
Author: George R. Goethals
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 1122
Release: 2023-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1071840835

Leadership Studies is a multi-disciplinary academic exploration of the various aspects of how people get along, and how together they get things done. The fields that contribute to leadership studies include history, political science, psychology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, literature, and behavioral economics. Leadership Studies is also about the ethical dimensions of human behavior. The discipline considers what leadership has been in the past (the historical view), what leadership actually looks like in the present (principally from the perspectives of the behavioral sciences and political science), and what leadership should be (the ethical perspective). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies will present both key concepts and research illuminating leadership and many of the most important events in human history that reveal the nuances of leadership, good and bad. Entries will include topics such as power, charisma, identity, persuasion, personality, social intelligence, gender, justice, unconscious conceptions of leadership, leader-follower relationships, and moral transformation.

The impact of culture on Swedish leadership and its implications for doing business internationally

The impact of culture on Swedish leadership and its implications for doing business internationally
Author: Lisa Maria Schmid
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3668738173

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, FH OÖ Standort Steyr, language: English, abstract: This thesis aims at understanding how culture influences the leadership style of Swedish managers and the implications that this has for other countries in doing business with them. Additionally, this thesis seeks to understand which impact globalization has on cultures and how this might influence national identity. In order to grasp the versatile field of culture, this thesis starts with finding a generally accepted definition for this multilayered topic. After that, it examines three culture models by Schein, Hall and Hofstede, three well-known scholars in the field of culture, who should help graphing culture by the means of their models. This thesis conceptualizes the similarities within the mentioned culture models. As for any country analyzation it is important to understand that no one is to judge another culture, therefore this thesis will briefly introduce the topic of cultural relativism in order to prevent any misconceptions. As mentioned, this thesis aims at understanding how globalization is influencing cultures. Therefore, this paper elaborates on three different scenarios on how globalization influences the cultural identity. These so-called three H’s of cultural globalization are analyzed to identify how globalization might change the cultural world view. The following chapter, which focuses on analyzing Swedish culture, firstly introduces Sweden by means of the SIMM and Hofstede’s culture onion and secondly by using a dialectic approach to analyzing culture, namely Hofstede’s dimensions and the Yin-Yang principle. This mutuality of concepts shall help understanding the complexity of a culture analysis. Within the penultimate chapter, the topic of leadership is generally defined and Swedish leadership style analyzed by the GLOBE study, followed by a selected leadership model, the Competing Values Framework. This model is firstly defined and in a next step merged with previous findings from Hofstede’s Dimensions, the GLOBE study and the Yin-Yang principle. The combination of these models shall help answering the main research questions. In the last chapter, the author summarizes the main findings by answering the research questions. To conclude this thesis, the limitations of this work are outlined, as well as possible future research.

The Global Business Guide for the Successful Use of Coaching in Organisations

The Global Business Guide for the Successful Use of Coaching in Organisations
Author: Frank Bresser
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 384825378X

This book provides you with 7 cutting-edge, yet well-proven management tools to use coaching successfully in enterprises and structure its implementation and optimization in organisations. It also contains 23 practical case studies from all over the world, written by managers/directors responsible for coaching in their firms. Learning and Development (L&D), Human Resources (HR) and Organisational Development (OD) directors and managers concerned with the implementation or improvement of coaching in their organisation, will find this guide an invaluable resource for their daily work in this area. Also CEOs, board members, directors, coaching providers, coaches and consultancies involved in coaching programmes will benefit from reading this book. Readers' comments: 'This is the best organizational coaching book I have ever read.' The 'Global Business Guide' is 'brilliant' and 'more than justifying its title'. 'The book is excellent in terms of depth, width, clarity and book design.' Author: Frank Bresser (Receiver of Global HR Excellence Award 2011) Editor: Amanda Bouch Available in book trade as paperback (colored cover; b/w) and/or ebook (colored)

Work Engagement

Work Engagement
Author: Arnold B. Bakker
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136980881

This book provides the most thorough view available on this new and intriguing dimension of workplace psychology, which is the basis of fulfilling, productive work. The book begins by defining work engagement, which has been described as ‘an opposite to burnout,’ following its development into a more complex concept with far reaching implications for work-life. The chapters discuss the sources of work engagement, emphasizing the importance of leadership, organizational structures, and human resource management as factors that may operate to either enhance or inhibit employee’s experience of work. The book considers the implications of work engagement for both the individual employee and the organization as a whole. To address readers’ practical questions, the book provides in-depth coverage of interventions that can enhance employees’ work engagement and improve management techniques. Based upon the most up-to-date research by the foremost experts in the world, this volume brings together the best knowledge available on work engagement, and will be of great use to academic researchers, upper level students of work and organizational psychology as well as management consultants.

The Shortest Hour

The Shortest Hour
Author: Lee Parrish
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2024-07-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1040051693

Independent directors of corporate boards understand the importance of cyber security as a business issue. Increased regulatory requirements, the onslaught of breaches, as well as the replacement of the corporate network perimeter with more third-party partnerships have all contributed to cyber security rising to the top of enterprise risks. Yet, many directors only receive a few brief cyber security updates during the year. Moreover, many directors have devoted their careers to other important business disciplines and may not fully grasp the technical concepts of cyber security. The challenge is that many publications on board cyber security governance address the topic at such a high level that it removes the important context of the cyber security details—or covers the topic too deeply with hard-to-understand technical language. These resources may often provide lists of security questions for directors to ask of their management team, but they do not provide the answers to the questions so that actionable oversight can be performed. What I would have wanted, and why you are probably reading this book summary, is a resource that delivers the questions to ask but also provides the answers and in a narrative, easy-to-understand style. An award-winning Chief Information Security Officer with over two decades of working with multiple Fortune 500 boards, Lee Parrish provides an example-laden vision to improve cyber security governance in the boardroom. Additionally, Lee deciphers the technical jargon to increase the reader’s cyber fluency—not to make you a cyber expert but to help you be able to ask direct questions, understand the answers provided, challenge strategies, and advise on important cyber decisions. Pick up your copy of The Shortest Hour: An Applied Approach to Boardroom Governance of Cyber Security today and start your journey on achieving more effective cyber security oversight. Want to learn more? Please visit www.novelsecurity.com