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  A warning for managers everywhere—motivation theories are culture-bound. The theories you’ve read about have been developed by American psychologists and scientists for the American workplace, and the behaviors suggested are dictated by the American cult...

Brief History of Leadership  There are a few different varieties of King Arthur’s story, one of the most prominent folklore stories from England. Most versions tell either of how Arthur became king when the Lady of the Lake gave him a sword called Excalibur...

Power brings a special need for ethics, because the circumstances of power make it easy for misuse to occur. As we have seen, a company president wields at least three sources of power: legitimate from the position they hold, coercive from the ability to fire ...

Bases of Power Having power and using power are two different things. For example, imagine a manager who has the power to reward or punish employees. When the manager makes a request, he or she will probably be obeyed even though the manager does not actually...

Innovatank Case - Chapter 4 - HRM- Leadership

Leadership Roles Leaders are leaders because they’re asked to face new challenges and take on new roles all the time. The most successful of them are able to adjust and put their leadership skills to work in these new atmospheres. Let’s take a look at some of...

We’ve used the word “leader” and we’ve used the word “manager.” You may think they’re interchangeable, but they aren’t. They are different. Abraham Zaleznik, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus, was the first to write about the differences between lead...

Traditional Leadership Styles Leadership style is a leader’s approach to providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people. In 1939, psychologist Kurt Lewin and a team of researchers determined that there were three basic leadership styles: Autho...

Early Trait Approach  From the turn of the century until the 1940s, most leadership studies focused on the personality traits of individuals that made them leaders and not followers. Thomas Carlyle set the stage for the great man theory, and other researchers...

Innovatank Case - Chapter 3 - HRM- Managing Groups and Teams

Motivation is a highly individual process, and motivating all the employees within a company can be a significant (if not nearly impossible) task. Yet, we’ve proven time and time again that employees who are engaged with their work and with the organization dr...

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As you might expect, organizations use a variety of measurement approaches—that is, how they go about setting and managing goals and objectives. If you have an understanding of how the use of these approaches has evolved, starting with management by objectives...

These early scientific and humanistic approaches to managing people gave way to more studies on how to achieve more productivity, efficiency and profit. Those theories and findings became the basis for further learning. Systems View The systems view of manag...

  Once you have a group of people (or a team of people), they will need to achieve goals and objectives. We know how the group came together, how they will function effectively and how they will become a team. So let’s talk now about how the group will be man...

As organizations move to more team-based structures, the control shifts from management to employees. Upper management still sets the general direction, vision, mission, goals and objectives. But then employees, with that understanding, make decisions and cont...

Optimal trust and teamwork: from groupthink to teamthink by Ferda Erdem The success of modern organizations is closely related to their ability to promote and manage effective teamworking. When organizations downsize and de-layer they often rely on their hope...

Innovatank Case - Chapter 2 - HRM- Motivation and Performance

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