The purpose of this paper is to examine conceptual similarities of transformational and servant leadership theories and analyze the contribution both theories make to the understanding of leadership. The paper examines the extent the domains of the two theories overlap, and looks at the motivation of managers to create organizational...
This paper focuses on different areas in applied microeconomics. One of these areas is the economics of education. The authors work on this area centers on the issue of social returns to human capital. After 40 years of research on the relationship between education and earnings, economists now have a...
The article states that growth investing is buying stock in companies that tend to grow substantially faster than others. In most cases, this involves buying young companies with high potential. The theory is that growth in earnings and/or revenues will directly translate into an increase in the stock price. Over...
Grounded Theory GT is a systematic approach to generating theory from data obtained through social science research. Knowledge management KM is a systematic approach for ordering corporate data to achieve sustained optimal performance in an organization. This paper examines the extent to which GT is an effective tool in the...
This paper explores the spiritual dimensions of leadership by setting forth a theory that both integrates and extends the transactional and transformational theories of leadership. Specifically, the authors' proposes that the transcendental theory of leadership set forth in the paper comprises three dimensions of spirituality (consciousness, moral character, and faith)...
Managers can and do behave differently in similar organizations and within similar jobs. Role theory is proposed to be useful in understanding and determining how managers' perceptions of the organizational setting influence their leadership behaviors. This paper seeks to introduce role theory as a mechanism for explaining the relationship between...
This paper proposes a leadership model that combines Bandura's social cognitive theory with the causal reasoning perspective. The model suggests that leader causal reasoning processes affect leader perceptions of goals, self-efficacy, and leadership task schema that, in turn, affect the leader's selection of strategies and enactment of behaviors. Each leader...
The job of a manager in the workplace is to get things done through employees. To do this the manager should be able to motivate employees. But that's easier said than done! Motivation practice and theory are difficult subjects, touching on several disciplines. In spite of enormous research, basic as...
Wall Street's ability to plan for risk is a joke, as far as Nassim Nicholas Tasseb is concerned. Tasseb tells Fortune in Fear of a Black Swan that as "portfolio models got worse and worse in tracking reality, their use kept increasing as if nothing was...
A quick note today on the arrival of The Oxford Handbook of Business History, an intriguing and opinionated survey of business management theory and research weighted mostly to the post-1950 era. The collection of essays around major business themes (approaches and debates; forms of business organization; functions...
Affective Decision-Making ADM is a refutable and predictive theory of individual choice under risk and uncertainty. It generalizes expected utility theory by positing the existence of two cognitive processes - the "rational" and the "emotional" process. Observed choice is the result of their simultaneous interaction. This paper presents a model...
Monday night, we said goodbye to our Leadership class in the form of a three-hour take-home final. It wasn't my favorite way to wrap up a three-day weekend, that's for sure. But even more frustrating was the fact that I didn't really take away too much from...
One of the two classes we're taking this session is Leadership. I have to admit, I've been skeptical from the start. Can you really learn how to be a leader in the classroom? It's not that I thought the class would be worthless, but the topic is...
This method is controversial. It also takes a while but once completed you will never procrastinate again. The theory behind it is that you rid your life of anything you do to procrastinate so that in the long run you have nothing to procrastinate with and end up getting your...
Time Management is getting more and more popular day by day. People want to be more successful, proactive and wealthy. It is not new to everyone that there are common time wasters in our lives. Watching TV all evening long, spending too much time on the Internet, having a very...
Education is one of the most important things in life. It is through education that we manage to pass on the progress that humanity has made. One of the factors that people consider when debating nowadays is emotional intelligence. Daniel Goleman's "Emotional Intelligence" affected education in a very profound manner....
Fighting Back Against the MBA Backlash: Curriculum CrisisAgreed!Well I agree with the notion that business schools are tilted towards the theoretical aspect of the MBA program. How does one learn management by reading a book? It sounds truly absurd! I'll illustrate my point with an example. I am currently enrolled...
There are times in all organizations when the external environment conspires against success. Wider economic and political factors may have undermined the business model; or competitors may have beaten the organization to the market with a new product. The internal environment may also cause difficulties. The hierarchical structure may be...
The price/earnings ratio (P/E) reveals the relationship between the price of a stock and the income it generates.P/E is one way of looking at the value of a stock. In theory, the faster investors expect a company to grow, the higher its P/E is likely to be. This is because...
CAPM describes the relationship between risk and expected return for an individual portfolio or security. Its underlying theory has prompted lively discussion about what “risk” actually means, asserting that only “systematic” (non-diversified) risk brings real reward to investors. Systematic risk is unavoidable, market-oriented risk that cannot be averaged out through...
