Understanding paternalistic leadership: a guide for managers considering foreign assignments

A Guide for Program Managers

poor nutrition at school age. It brings together a consortium of countries, donor organisations and centres of academic excellence to design and test strategies to improve the health and education of school-age children. The Partnership has international agency support from UNDP, WHO, UNICEF, The World Bank and British DFID, and is sustained through support from participating governments, the R...

A Concise Guide for Managers

Design a Model for Developing Leadership Competency for Steel Industry Managers Using the Grounded Theory

The purpose of this research was to make and provide a model for developing the competence of the leadership of the steel industry managers. The methodology of this research was applied and exploratory in terms of the purpose and data gathering method was mixed. In qualitative stage, after a deep interview, data gathering has been done based on the Grounded Theory and by using a questionnaire o...

Leadership style of Nurse Managers

Leadership style is phenomenon which affects the productivity and quality nursing care. There is a lack of research studies in this area in Sri Lanka. The aim of this study was to examine the nurses’ perception about their nurse managers’ leadership style. The study sample comprised 160 nurses using simple random sampling. The research instruments were Demographic Data Recording Form and the Pe...

Guide for Energy and Plant Managers

Annually, breweries in the United States spend over $200 million on energy. Energy consumption is equal to 3 – 8% of the production costs of beer, making energy efficiency improvement an important way to reduce costs, especially in times of high energy price volatility. After a summary of the beer making process and energy use, we examine energy efficiency opportunities available for breweries....