The continued economic growth slowdown has affected many emerging economies. In this situation, global business expansion has been weakening. This leads most organizations, including the supermarket retail industry to limit their capacity in planning new projects. To overcome challenges, top leaders should pay close attention to their organizational environments and cultures. In doing so, they ...

The purpose of this paper is to help leaders recognize the importance of utilizing a strategic focus to enhance achievement in a highly competitive global environment. Leadership theories allow most managers to be classified into a specific leadership framework. This framework can provide clues as to how leaders make decisions. In the competitive environment in which organizations operate today...

there remains a conviction that the torrent of publications and the financial outlay on leadership development will create managers with the skills and characters of perfect leaders, capable of guiding healthcare organisations through the challenges and crises of the 21st century. the focus of much attention continues to be the search for the (illusory) core set of heroic qualities, abilities o...

The trade-off between mercy and justice is a classic moral dilemma, particularly for organizational leaders and managers. In 3 complementary studies, we investigated how resolving the "punishment dilemma" influences interpersonal trust. Study 1 used controlled scenarios to show that uninvolved observers trusted leaders who administered large or medium punishment more than leaders who administer...

Today’s nurse managers (NMs) are challenged to be visionary and innovative leaders who embrace change, manage diverse groups of employees, and address the complex demands of patients and families. Nurse managers need to be educated and knowledgeable on health care reform including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, oversee multimillion dollar budgets, leverage technology, and champ...

today’s organizations, in chaos, complexities, diverse, dynamic, uncertainties, and rapid and increasingly changes in technologies, markets, and life qualities, are forced to search of leaders who having the least mistakes in their decision-makings; the leaders who make the right decisions with a calculative and scrupulous sense, and serve right and suitable behaviors for guiding and leading th...

The shortage of frontline nursing staff and their managers in acute care organizations necessitates strategies to both use and recognize the unique knowledge and skills of these individuals. The authors describe one organization's successful implementation of a shared decision-making structure that promotes an empowering work environment in which professional fulfillment and personal satisfacti...

During the last years, organizational performance of manufacturing organizations is considered to be a key for a country’s economy. As a result of high positive performance of manufacturing organization; the overall effects on the society have attributed the attention and the interest of organisational researchers. Armstrong and Baron (2003) highlighted the need of performance management as bei...

abstract: we are living in a world that is increasingly faced with dynamic, complex and unpredictable business environment. in this situation, creating and sustaining competitive advantage depends on continuous businesses innovativeness and technological improvement that is basically done by r& d organizations. there are a vast literature on the positive relationship between leadership and perf...