Search results for "LEADER"

Feasibility of a Responsibility-Based Leadership Training Program for Novice Physical Activity Instructors

2021

Most coaches and instructors would like to teach more than just sport skills to their athletes and children. However, to promote athletes’ or children’s holistic development and teach them to take responsibility and lead, requires the coaches and instructors to first master the skills themselves. Therefore, feasible, high quality leadership training programs where coaches and physical activity instructors are taught to teach and share leadership are needed. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the feasibility of a leadership training program to optimize it and to determine whether to proceed with its evaluation. In the leadership training program, eight Finnish novice physical activ…

Leadership Styles and the Moral Choice of Internal Auditors

2010

Internal auditors’ performance largely depends on their moral decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas. This study explores the impacts of different leadership styles on internal auditors’ moral choice using ERG theory and Path-goal theory. The findings of the survey demonstrated support for both theories. Regression analysis revealed that a sample of West Australian internal auditors were motivated by growth needs and the motivation was enhanced if the leader took a Standard-achievement-oriented approach. Gender appeared as an important predictor and female respondents in the survey were younger and less experienced than their male counterparts and appeared less motivated towards moral c…

Facilitating leadership team communication

2015

The purpose of this study is to understand and describe how to facilitate competent communication in leadership teamwork. Grounded in the premises of social constructionism and informed by such theoretical frameworks as coordinated management of meaning theory (CMM), dialogic organization development (OD), systemic-constructionist leadership, communication competence, and reflexivity, this study seeks to produce further insights into understanding leadership team communication, communication competence, and team facilitation as applied communication research. This study consists of five articles. The first focuses on the theoretical framing of the relationality of communication competence i…

Elites in Finnish energy policy and biogas as a motor vehicle fuel

2011

The intent of this research was to find out what is the state of Finnish energy policy when reviewing it from the vantage point of biogas as a motor vehicle fuel. It seemed, according to previous research, that Finnish energy policy is lead by an elite and that there was a lack in transparency of energy policy. Therefore, in addition to researching the question of transparency and the possible elite structure, the research questions were: Who are these elites? Why do they exist and what makes others not members of the elite? Within what context do they exist? The question “Who?” will define the elite structure in Finland. “Why?” will tell us why this elite structure exists, thus giving poss…

The discursive construction of leader identity: Tim Cook in a broadcast interview

2016

Tämän tutkimuksen aiheena on tutkia johtajaidentiteetin rakentumista diskursiivisesta näkökulmasta. Sosiolingvistisen tutkimussuuntauksen piirissä identiteetin rakentuminen nähdään kielellisenä prosessina: identiteetti rakentuu vuorovaikutuksessa diskursiivisten prosessien kautta. Tätä taustaa vasten tavoitteena on selvittää, kuinka Applen toimitusjohtaja Tim Cookin johtajaidentiteetti rakentuu haastattelutilanteessa erilaisten kielellisten keinojen kautta. Tutkimuksen keskiössä ovat erityisesti kielellisen asemoinnin keinot eli erilaisten lyhyt- ja pidempiaikaisten identiteettiasemien osoittaminen niin Cookin itsensä kuin haastattelijan toimesta. Teoreettinen viitekehys koostui Bucholtzin …

Influence of cultural differences on Finnish-Chinese cooperation at UPM-Kymmene's three Asian sales offices

2000

The Physical Activity and Nutritional INfluences in Ageing (PANINI) Toolkit: a standardized approach towards physical activity and nutritional assess…

2022

Assessing multiple domains of health in older adults requires multidimensional and large datasets. Consensus on definitions, measurement protocols and outcome measures is a prerequisite. The Physical Activity and Nutritional INfluences In Ageing (PANINI) Toolkit aims to provide a standardized toolkit of best-practice measures for assessing health domains of older adults with an emphasis on nutrition and physical activity. The toolkit was drafted by consensus of multidisciplinary and pan-European experts on ageing to standardize research initiatives in diverse populations within the PANINI consortium. Domains within the PANINI Toolkit include socio-demographics, general health, nutrition, ph…

Participative Strategic Work

2018

The Role of Leadership in Complex Strategic Networks: Enabling Effect Versus Emergence

2013

In today's knowledge-based economy, the sources of competitive advantage lie more and more in webs of interactions among a variety of actors (such as firms, universities, research organizations, government institutions and so on), that over time originate the emergence of strategic networks. The paper aims to shed light on the determinants of network interaction and the ensuing processes of knowledge and resource transfer and circulation, on which the networkbased sources of competitive advantage are rooted. Accordingly, by means of the adoption of the complexity system perspective, on the one hand, we underscore the emergent nature of network interactions stemming from the self-organizing …

Skolēna līderprasmju attīstības metodes vispārizglītojošās skolas kontekstā

2015

Mūsdienu Latvijas vispārizglītojošā skolā skolēni apgūst daudz mācību priekšmetu: matemātiku, dabaszinības, valodas, literatūru, u.c. Bet nevienā no šiem priekšmetiem netiek mērķtiecīgi attīstītas komunikācijas prasmes, emociju savaldīšana, empātija un līdera prasmes, kuras ir tik nepieciešamas mūsdienu pasaulē. Šī darba mērķis ir teorētiski izpētīt un praktiski pārbaudīt līdera prasmes attīstības metodes, kuras ir pielietojami skolas vidē. No literatūras analīzes tika secināts, ka līderība ir emocionālās inteliģences augstāka pakāpe, un lai attīstītu līdera prasmes, jāstrādā pie emocionālas inteliģences attīstīšanās. Šim nolūkam darba gaitā bija izstrādāts nodarbības kurss, kurā piedalījās…