The Evolution of Leadership Theory David A. Van Seters Stevenson‚ Kellogg‚ Ernst & Whinney‚ Vancouver‚ British Columbia and Evolution of Leadership Theory 29 Richard H.G. Field University of Alberta‚ Edmonton‚ Canada Leadership is one of the most complex and multifaceted phenomena to which organisational and psychological research has been applied. While the term "leader" was noted as early as the 1300s (The Oxford English Dictionary‚ 1933) and conceptualised even before biblical times
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Theory X and Theory Y represent two sets of assumptions about human nature and human behavior that are relevant to the practice of management. Theory X represents a negative view of human nature that assumes individuals generally dislike work‚ are irresponsible‚ and require close supervision to do their jobs. Theory Y denotes a positive view of human nature and assumes individuals are generally industrious‚ creative‚ and able to assume responsibility and exercise self-control in their jobs. One would
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of single exit pricing for pharmaceuticals in South Africa Daleen Pretorius A research report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce‚ Law and Management‚ University of the Witwatersrand‚ in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration Johannesburg‚ 2011 ABSTRACT Pricing regulations have been implemented within the pharmaceutical industry in South Africa to ensure improved access to healthcare. The implementation of the Single Exit Price (SEP)
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Post-colonialial theory as a recent field of study has lately become one of the most attractive academic disciplines - if it can be called a discipline - that incessantly triggers piles and piles of literature written by art of critics‚ social reformists‚ political scientists‚ literary critics and political economists. The continuous expansion of post-colonialism in its recent version made its own domains of interest and areas of functionality overlap with other fields of global academic studies
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settings where individuals learning from their own professional experiences‚ rather than from formal teaching or knowledge transfer‚ may be the most important source of personal professional development and improvement. I am going to reflect on my roles as student In the university‚ The reflective model I have chosen to use is Gibbs model (Gibbs 1988). Graham Gibbs discussed the use of structured debriefing to facilitate the reflection involved in Kolb ’s "experiential learning cycle". He presents
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’super-aged ’ at scary speed. Available from : http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/21/news/economy/aging-countries-moodys/index.html?iid=HP_River United Nations (2002).World Population Ageing : 1950-2050 .Available from : http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/worldageing19502050/ Charles Kenny (2013) An Aging Population may be what the world needs .Available from :http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-07/an-aging-population-may-be-what-the-world-needs#p1
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Aging Through a Portrait As the story goes on‚ there are many developments and changes of Dorian’s character in Oscar Wilde’s novel‚ The Picture of Dorian Gray. At the beginning of the story‚ Gray’s personality seems to be selfless‚ optimistic‚ carefree‚ who happens to be admired by many people‚ such as Lord Henry and Basil. But as time goes on‚ his positive personality starts to fade throughout several events leading to a whole new person. Gray is now the character of
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“Labeling theory is the theory of how your identity and behavior is influenced by the terms (labels) you use to describe or classify yourself” (Theworldcounts.com). However‚ our book states that labeling theory is also called social reaction theory. Throughout society and throughout our lives‚ we are often given labels to our identity due to our attitudes or behaviors. Some of those labels can be negative and have negative consequences later in life and sometimes they can be good‚ and likewise have
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stop or deter the professional or determined. Not only do anti-theft devices waste people’s time‚ they do not catch or identify shoplifters any better than a camera could. Marga‚ the author of the article “A Little Secret-- Shoplifters Can Ignore Exit Alarms”‚ also does not find these machines very useful. “The problem with these systems is that they are not sophisticated‚” points out Marga. “They...will beep if you pass the sensors with an active tag from a product that you bought elsewhere….[this]
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Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender‚ a message‚ and an intended recipient‚ although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender’s intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication process is complete once the receiver has understood
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