Issues are the events that are outside the power of the organization. It may affect the organization in some way or the other and the organization must manage the issues in appropriate time. The issues pertaining the organization will naturally affects its vision, mission and values of the organization and...
Creative Leadership Despite the fact that creativity seems to be an abstract concept, it has a well-structured model that can be applied to organizations. The model presented by DuBrin (2016) consists of five consecutive steps such as opportunity or problem recognition, immersion, incubation, insights, and verification and application (DuBrin, 2016)....
What is the control function of management? The control function of management entails verification of whether everything runs in conformity with the strategy and policies that the organization adopts, the instructions that have been issued, and the established principles. With effective control in place, an organization optimizes the use of...
Introduction Leadership and management skills are crucial for every individual who has to work with a group of people in any field. Leadership can be treated as an ability to influence others due to one’s personal qualities and values. Management, in its turn, deals with administration of an organisation and...
Introduction Strategic management is a type of leadership that relies on human potential as the foundation of an organization. The essence of this principle of work is to focus on specific interests and quickly respond to any changes within a particular company. The ability to achieve competitive advantages and distinct...
Management characteristics Management is a very important part of today’s society, both the commercial and noncommercial world usually requires that individuals exhibit some degree of management skills while dealing with day to day issues. Many business units are organizations and since organizations are put in place for specific purposes, run...
Introduction This presentation analyzes the competency levels of the New Zealand managers by summarizing research conducted by Du Plessis et al. (2012) to investigate the mentioned topic. The authors analyze numerous literature materials to come up with the hypothesis for the presentation. The materials reviewed by the authors include works...
The Role of Dunn as a Leader In an organizational context, leading has to do with the leaders consolidating the efforts and resources of the organizations and focusing on the future by setting up a vision which they intend to achieve in a given period using the consolidated efforts and...
Introduction Pret a Manger is a coffee and sandwiches UK company that has operations in the UK, the USA, Hong Kong, Shanghai, France, and recently, the UAE. The company serves more than 350,000 customers daily in its outlets. It majorly focuses on making natural handmade coffee and sandwiches among other...
Literature review An article by Anglin and his friends (1990) suggests that team performance is one of the methods used in the measurement of a manager’s performance. He asserts that managers are at the core of success in any organization and their roles are similar in every other organization only...
Relationship between Strategic Management and Leadership Link between Strategic Management and Leadership The correlation between strategic management and leadership cannot be underestimated, as they can define the company’s success in the market due to the ability to influence the development of the organizational strategy. Strategic management is used to assess...
The primary purpose of leadership is to communicate visions and provide direction that can be followed by others. Leaders are expected to come up with future solutions to both current and future problems. In the same regard, leaders are expected to be respectful in their service to their subjects. For...
Introduction This paper is based on the topic of leadership in organisations. It seeks to explore the responsibilities of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in organisations. It is argued that the key role of CEOs is to provide leadership in organisations to enable them achieve their goals and objectives. As leaders,...
Professionalism Professionalism refers to the act of conducting oneself according to some set of rules, codes of conduct or learnt principles of a certain field. The human resource manager professional map clarifies the behavior, abilities and knowledge expected of a professional human resource manager. This article considers some of these...
Introduction Managers have many roles in an organization, each with different advantages. The roles keep on changing depending on the type of manager and the organization. According to Elenkov and Manev, the roles of managers included conservative, creative, strategic, and organizing (359). Conservative role involve managing problems that arise daily...
