Understanding the Managerial Culture

Within the organizations the managerial culture has a powerful impact over the development of human resources potential and directing it to the achievement of the organizational objectives. This paper deals with the identification of the main functions that the managerial culture has within organizations, helping managers to better understand and use the characteristics of this important organizational phenomenon. In leading the organizations, the managers need a clear strategy, based on attractive vision that reflects the strong beliefs and values of its components and that is able to meet the stakeholders demands. There is a strong connection between the managerial vision and managerial culture that will be reflected in the way that its functions are performend and, finally, in the organization’s evolution.managerial culture; organizational cultures; values; stakeholders; performances.

Importance of Trust in the Knowledge Based Leadership

More pressures are placed on leaders’ decisions in terms of assuring the survival and development of their organization. As the knowledge based economy and society proves to be more than fashionable terms, the leaders have to develop new approaches able to face the challenges of a dynamic environment. Their inspiration and hard work are involved in developing organizational structures able to discover, to amplify and value the employees’ innovative potential based on knowledge creation, acquiring, saharing and use. Trust becomes a delicate resource that act as a bridge between the tendency to keep the knowledge for you in order to demonstrate your important role for the organization and the real needs of higher interdependencies among the employees that are the only mechanisms that will be able to assure a competitive advantage for the organization.knowledge; leaders; leadership; trust; organizational culture.

Leadership in the time of change

Last years, the environment has placed more challenges for the organizations to cope with. The economic crisis brings new issues in the front of the leaders, forcing them to question again the ways of leading and the possibilities to get most of value from their human resources potential. The passage to the new society and economy, the knowledge based economy, which was seen as the highest level in humanity development, proves to be a process that is not smoothly at all. Developing the change competency for the leaders means to acquire that knowledge and abilities that are able to provide the best answer for a certain working situation or a challenging external context, with getting the best results for organization and its stakeholders.change; leadership; credibility; learning; competitivity.

LEADING THE SOCIAL BUSINESS

The present circumstances, globalization, development of informational technology, free movement of resources, challenge the managers and leaders to properly communicate and motivate the specific decisions and actions. The wider range of stakeholders is more interested in the manner that an organization’s management understands their particular needs and interests and, especially, how they are addressed.As the leader should have a symbolic role for the decisions, he is also held responsible by organizations concrete performances. He has to better understand the correlations between the economic and social sides of a business, without allowing a possible threat to the change efforts for adapting to a tougher environment.leaders, globalization, ethics, corporate social responsibility, performances

Developing a Strategic Leadership Approach within the Organizations

Business leaders are facing today a tough environment that force them to identify and implement innovative ways for managing their people and organization, in order to assure the survival and development of their organizations. Strategic leaders are concern with how to create and deliver the best value for their stakeholders, paying attention to their constraints. They understood that the traditional vertical chains of command are not longer enough and they have to be able to develop more horizontal networks, where there co-workers can learn, experiment and develop, both personally and professionally. This article deals with some challenges that the strategic leaders must take into account in developing competitive organizations, able to meet the new standards that are raised by a more dynamic and provoking business environment.strategic leadership; strategy; organizational culture; performances.

Leadership Development within SME’s: Solving the Organizational Conflict

Within the theoretical and practical management and entrepreneurial fields a wide range of approaches tried to explain and present the conflict evolution and its impact over the organization’s performances. This article deals with a mechanism designed to outline a methodology able to lead us to solve the conflicts, both at individual or group level within SME’s. Conflict solving is a key ability for the modern leaders having in mind the numberless challenges they face and the diversity of the workforce. In the high dynamic environment, leaders must pay careful attention to the factors that could determine the success or failure in conflict solving, due to the short and long term impact that such action could determine over the functionality and performances of the SME’s.leaders; leadership; conflict; entrepreneurs; stakeholders.

The power of management in medical services. Can we manage better for higher quality and more productive medical services?

Medical services are the most important services of all since we all depend on them. Their quality and productivity can assure a wealthy nation and therefore good economical results. The offer of medical services depends on medical personnel and more than this, on the management in the medical field since any resource not managed well or not managed at all is only a lost one, regardless its value. Management is therefore the key, the “how to” method of obtaining the desired result. The same approach can be applied into our study in order to reach more productive medical services which to prove high quality to all patients. We need to use and to squeeze the entire force of management tools in order to reach our goal: accessible medical services full of quality. The current worldwide crisis situation makes us think that after job and food, even medical services (also a basic thing after all) can become a “luxury” although this should never happen. Therefore we must do whatever needed to improve the way medical organizations are driven so that the quality of their medical services will be better and better and the productivity will be at a higher level. Medical management should have as a goal making it possible for patients to be able to solve their health problems as soon as possible and as good as possible.quality, productivity, medical services, human resources, management of health care organizations

Change Leadership and the Worldwide Crisis

Crisis is a normal status in every field, at a certain moment. It’s a natural status that follows a period of growth, of expansion one. It is even “announced” by certain signs that good leaders could “hear” or “feel”. Core purpose orientation is something that should not miss to any good leading person since it ensures resisting to any type of “storm”. The article is about challenges determined by changes, how leadership models can be followed during changes period, specificities of change and relation to the crisis status worldwide.crisis; leadership; leader; change; competitive.

Leadership and Organizational Communication in Critical Times

When we talk about the leadership, the dimension of the organization is not important. Leaders can exist in small companies as well as in big companies. It all depends on people and the results reached by the group. If on leader will have very good results with his followers it will mean very much for him. It will also mean very much for the respective company since results will be better if realized with unified forces. Leaders are very good in communication and this means a lot in general and in special in difficult times as crisis times are. As a major issue during the crisis time is related to the communication, this paper brings together the leadership and communication as vital processes for an organization’s survival and evolution.organizational culture, organizational communication, crisis, critical times, leadership.

The Long Term Vision as the Successful Leaders Main Characteristics

One of the major challenges that leaders face is that of creating and applying an organizational vision that could be the inspirating source for organizational objectives and the activities developed within. It is a matter of integrating the individual and organizational expectations, in order to meet the business environment requirements, to achieve the expected performance and the stakeholders to be please with the provided resultsOrganizational objectives; Organizational vision; Organuzational culture; Leader.