With the election looming and the two most disliked presidential candidates in history vying for the office, I find myself contemplating a topic I used to teach many years ago: Leadership. In the course of the developing that course I did extensive research reading literally dozens of books on the topic. (OK, I read 22 and three of them were pop-up books and another was a coloring book, but […]

GENDER ISSUES AND LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS IN NIGERIA LABOUR UNION ACTIVITIES: AN APPRAISAL BY NWOBODO IJEOMA BLESSING (B. Sc, CDP, M. Sc, GNIM) E-mail: [email protected] com ABSTRACT Organizations are realizing that, in order to adequately address human resource concerns, they must develop long-term as well as short term solutions to gender and leadership issues. This paper on the subject of Gender issues and Leadership Effectiveness attempts […]

For the longest time, women have been perceived as weak citizens who can only follow what is demanded of them. They have been called different names, oppressed beyond recognition. However, women have reached the bottom, and are now raising themselves to positions that were not initially designed for them. This is to be affirmed by the different institutions that are campaigning for women leadership today. […]

The element of change remains a factor in everyday life within the organization. How to handle change begins with a decision to embrace the implications into an organization’s vision. Incorporating change and a healthy attitude toward change as a core value begins with leadership. A good leader like John Welch provides vision and clarity for the employee. He even instills inspiration in the employee allowing […]

Mohandas Gandhi once admitted that “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” Essentially, leadership is about people management. As a leader, one has to realize that the value of leadership is determined by the ability of the leader to deal fairly with the people placed under him. Interestingly, we can say that all men are leaders. […]

Leadership and authority are considered to be one factor that creates improvements and change in a specific situation and organization. Understanding this, professionals must seek to enhance this potential to provide effective avenues that can contribute to change. Similarly, by looking into the difference between two concepts, each one can maximize their potential and effectively adapt it in particular cases and scenarios. Seeing this, leadership […]

Born on March 23, 1953 in Bangalore. Schooling at Bishop Cotton Girls School & Mount Carmel College at Bangalore. B. Sc. in Zoology from Bangalore University. Qualified as a master brewer from Ballarat University Australia. CMD,Biocon Ltd, India’s biggest biotechnology company. In 2004, she became India’s richest woman Feathers in the Cap Termed India’s Biotech Queen by The Economist and Fortune India’s mother of invention […]

Management and Leadership Paper Leadership and management are the two most confused terms in the corporate world. These are the two expressions used interchangeably in the corporate parlance. One is thought to be the replacement of the other. However, managers and leaders are two different spheres of organizational culture with one sphere, at some places, overlapping the other. These two together make the organizational culture […]

Life Styles Inventory  – Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Carr Nov 5th, 2011 My primary personal thinking styles as shown in my circumplex are: Affiliative, Achievement, and Self-Actualizing. For all 3 of these, I placed in the 90th percentile. My backup style is perfectionist in which I scored at the 69th percentile. Both work and in life, I feel I am strong when it comes […]

Understanding the scope of drug use and addiction in the world includes knowing the prevalence among various populations and researching the many health and social consequences. The United States is both the largest producer of drug research in the world and the world’s only “drug-control superpower.” The simultaneous leadership in social science and world agenda setting is not the result of a symbiotic relationship between […]