Decisiveness

This paper investigates how the presence of strong leadership influences an organization's ability to acquire and process information. The key concept is the leader's decisiveness. A decisive leader can make a bold move in response to a large change in the underlying landscape, whereas an indecisive leader biases her position excessively towards the status quo. An organization led by an indecisive leader needs to accumulate unrealistically strong evidence before it changes the course of action, thereby hindering the organization's ability to adapt to a changing environment. The analysis identifies several attributes and environmental factors that impair one's decisiveness and illuminates how leadership emerges or fades in organizations. The paper also sheds light on a classical issue of whether leaders can be made, rather than are born: our answer is partially `yes' in that mutual trust among members of the organization is a critical ingredient of effective leadership.Decisiveness, Transformational leadership, Charismatic leadership, Information acquisition, Career concerns.

Authentic leadership in illness blogs:What we can learn from jaw surgery bloggers

This paper argues that authentic leadership theory provides a useful model for explaining the communication of orthognathic or jaw surgery bloggers. Previous studies concluded that illness blogs can empower patients, but no research considered any leadership theory as a model for blogging. For this study, 24 publicly available blogs were analyzed to find expressions that demonstrated each of the four components of authentic leadership, which are self-awareness, relational transparency, communication based upon an internalized moral perspective, and balanced processing of information. The research also analyzed blog comments to find expressions that demonstrated followers’ development of the positive psychological capacities of confidence, hope, optimism and resilience. The research points towards a new model of how this group of bloggers helps themselves and their community transit a time of change and uncertainty. The bloggers appear to be delivering positive socio-emotional leadership to similar others. To confirm the model, researchers need to run interviews and surveys with bloggers and commenters

The Determinants of Leadership of Managers in Songkhla Province, Southern Thailand : The Role of Individual Differences in Leadership Behaviour

This study investigated the relationship between individual differences and leadership behaviour. The investigation centred on the leadership behaviour exhibited by the managers at the workplace and outside the workplace. Individual differences, nature of organisation and personality dimensions were used as; the independent variables to predict leadership behaviour. The questionnaire survey method was used to gather the data. One hundred and seventy three managers in the Songkhla province, Thailand, completed the questionnaire which provided bibliographical information and measurements of leadership behaviour and personality traits. The leadership behaviour measurement, which is subdivided into the Behavioral and B io-history leadership components adapted from Arvey, et al. (2003), and the five-factor personality measurement (NEO PIFFI) (Costa & McCrlae, 1989, 1992) were used. It was conceptualised that leadership could be predicted by individual differences and personality dimension would differentiate leadership behaviour. The findings show that Educational level, Monthly income, Agreeableness and Extraversion have contributed towards Behavioural leadership. Age, Monthly income, and Educational level, and Extraversion are contributing significantly towards the Bio-history leadership. Age, Educational level and Extraversion are contributing significantly towards the Overall Leadership Behaviour (Behavioural + Bio-history)

Rethinking leadership to construction partnering projects

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of partnering in construction. Central to any successful partnering arrangement is the change in cultural and behavioural characteristics towards mutual trust and understanding. According to Schein, cultural and behavioural characteristics can be shaped and reflected by proper leadership. This research probes leadership as the response to address complex relationships of behaviour and culture in large scale partnering projects. This involves understanding, interpreting, explaining and mapping complex human behaviour. Therefore it is very important to comprehend and implement a suitable research methodology to carefully extract appropriate information. This paper justifies the social constructionism stance and case study approach for the leadership study as the response to address complex relationships challenges of behaviour and culture in construction partnering projects. For this purpose, the nested approach is used, highlighting the main facets of the arguments to justify the selection of appropriate research philosophy and research approach

Leadership in construction partnering projects: Research methodological perspective

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of partnering in construction. Central to any successful partnering arrangement is the change in cultural and behavioural characteristics towards mutual trust and understanding. According to Schein, cultural and behavioural characteristics can be shaped and reflected by proper leadership. This research probes leadership as the response to address complex relationships of behaviour and culture in large scale partnering projects. This involves understanding, interpreting, explaining and mapping complex human behaviour. Therefore it is very important to comprehend and implement a suitable research methodology to carefully extract appropriate information. This paper justifies the social constructionism stance and case study approach for the leadership study as the response to address complex relationships challenges of behaviour and culture in construction partnering projects. For this purpose, the nested approach is used, highlighting the main facets of the arguments to justify the selection of appropriate research philosophy and research approach

Factors Affecting Readiness for Business Process Reengineering-Developing and Proposing a Conceptual Model

In this paper researcher made an effort to suggest an approach to minimize risk of implementing Business Process Reengineering (BPR) initiatives by identifying certain factors crucial towards creating readiness for BPR. Lack of readiness is main factor behind high rate of BPR failures. Extensive literature review and interviews from the panel of experts provided sufficient background information. Leadership style, Information technology (IT), Top management commitment and collaborative working figured out as critical factors towards creating readiness. Regular leadership actions consistent with organizational environment, collaborative working, Information Technology and Top management commitment could promote coherence in organizational members' readiness perceptions. Assessing BPR readiness can address strong points, weak points and risks, and hence the ranking/level of readiness in the organization. Keywords: Business process reengineering, Business process readiness, Critical success factors, Organizational change

Bridging the Generation Gap Across the Digital Divide: Teens Teaching Internet Skills to Senior Citizens

With the intent of closing the digital divide, the Teens Teaching Internet Skills Pilot Project engaged youth from 4-H Technology Teams in six states in training senior citizens to navigate and obtain information from the Medicare Web site. The teens perceived an improvement in working with seniors, project management, teaching, public speaking, and leadership. The workshops had a positive effect on seniors\u27 comfort and skill levels towards technology. This intergenerational experience in leadership and technology training provided learning and skill development for both groups and led to positive changes in attitudes towards the other generation

THE CHANGING NATURE OF SALES LEADERSHIP IN THE INFORMATION AGE: TRANSACTIONAL OR TRANSFORMATIONAL - WHICH TO RELY ON?

The new economy, by the courtesy of the information age, requires knowledge-based organizations and in turn new leaders to quickly respond to changes in resources, technologies, marketing and distribution systems. By the same token, the notion of leadership has shifted from a parochial point of view towards a more humanistic and vivid multi-dimensional angle of vision. In this context, transactional and transformational leadership styles in right combination are the source of guidance through the dynamic leadership journey and drawing upon the triple entente of rational, emotional and spiritual intelligence as well will benefit mutual parties - both at individual and organizational level, in terms of effective leadership processes and increased performance outcomes

Pengaruh Kredibilitas dan Karakteristik Opinion Leader terhadap Behavioral Intention Konsumen pada Media Sosial Instagram

This study aims to determine the effect of the information source’s credibility and characteristic towards opinion leadership, and the effect of opinion leadership on consumer behavioral intention in social media Instagram. The population in this study were all social media users who use Instagram as their fashion reference. The total sample used in this study was 168 people. The sampling method used in this research is purposive sampling. The result obtained from this study indicates that credibility and characteristic have a significant and positive effect on opinion leadership, and opinion leadership has a significant and positive effect on the intention to interact and intention to follow the advice