Search results for "Power"

Leaders – A Determinant Role

2016

Abstract No matter of the business sector the company plays in, today leadership is essential in order to be successful, because when we speak about leadership we think about the power that is the result of the connection between a leader and his followers. Today it is important to have good managers that organize and conduct the company in order to achieve the objectives, but it is more important that the managers to be good leaders that have the power to influence other in participating for achieving companies goals.

The Changing Roles of Academic Leaders: Decision-Making, Power, and Performance

2019

AbstractMajor reforms in the Nordic countries have increased the formal autonomy of higher education institutions (HEIs) to make decisions over their own activities, both academic core tasks and managerial/administrative activities. The issue addressed in this chapter is how these changes have affected the role of the academic leader. Across the four countries, we see clear signs of change regarding academic leadership comprising a mix of institutional logics in the interviews: the professional, collegial traditional academic leadership, which is based on rotating systems, election among peers, and collegial decision-making, has been complemented with, and in some places replaced by, a mana…

Power holders: one versus many. Leadership and elite theories

2016

‘Leadership’ and ‘elites’ are two crucial concepts that refer to individuals who hold power within a community. The aim of the article was to demonstrate to what extent the two concepts and theories are linked with each other in the literature. A quantitative and qualitative content analysis of the encyclopedic and dictionary entries demonstrates a divergence of approaches: on the one hand, a fundamental separation between the two theories, while on the other hand, a tendency to identify the one with the other. This shows the need for much more dialog between the frameworks of these two closely related phenomena.

Leadership – A Key Factor to a Succesful Organization – Part II

2013

Abstract Leadership is the well-known and often discussed process nowadays of influence exerted by one person, accepted and followed by all, over the other factors (human resource) that he works with, in order to reach the organizational goals. This research is the second part of a long cycle aimed to determine the knowledge and application of the leadership concept in the Romanian organizations considering the influences imposed by the external environment, often characterized by frequent changes. These changes may have positive or negative effects on organizations, and that is why organizations have to react fast in order to take advantage of opportunities and to protect from threats. We …

Johtajuuden diskurssit varhaiskasvatuksessa - valta ja vastuu johtajuuden jäsentäjinä

2021

Suomalaista varhaiskasvatusta ovat viime vuosina muokanneet monet yhteiskunnalliset ja rakenteelliset muutokset. Hallinonalan muutos opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriöön, uusi varhaiskasvatuslaki (540/2018) sekä uudet velvoittavat ohjausasiakirjat ovat määritelleet varhaiskasvatuksen vahvasti osaksi kasvatuksen ja opetuksen toimialaa aiemman päivähoidon sosiaalipalvelupainotuksen sijaan. Samaan aikaan organisaatiorakenteet ovat olleet muutosprosessissa. Kuntien taloudelliset haasteet ovat laajentaneet päiväkodin johtajien vastuualueita, ja uudenlaisista jaetun johtajuuden rakenteista on tullut kehittämisen kohteita. Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan päiväkodin johtajien ja varhaiskasvatuksen op…

Changing Managers for a Changing Economy – The Need for Creativity and Leadership

2013

Abstract The present paper aims to identify new approaches of management by re-considering business comportment and attitudes. The research looked into specialized literature on new development of business in the post-crisis era and, on another hand, on leadership and organizational culture, in order to establish a possible profile of the most efficient management and organizational culture adapted to the new challenges of business environment, intending to demonstrate that managers need to develop leadership traits and re-shape organizational culture for a better business performance.

The Decline of Political Party Elite

2019

In this article, the author presents a claim that, in parallel to the end of mass parties, it is possible to observe the progressing decline of elites within political parties. This phenomenon manifests itself on the following three levels: 1) a theoretical level—less and less attention is paid to elites in the theory of political parties as their place is being taken over by other approaches, in particular leadership theory; 2) a terminological level—the notion of elites is being removed from analyses devoted to political parties and supplanted by other terms such us “leaders.” They are sometimes considered as the synonyms of the word “elite”; 3) a factual level—there are strong reasons to…

Haastava leikki lasten toimintaterapiassa

2004

The IMF Lending Activity – A Survey

2014

Abstract This paper presents the evolution of the IMF lending arrangements approved between 1953-2013. The study covers both non-concessional and concessional loans. The findings show that the volume of the IMF loans has fluctuated significantly and the value of the IMF lending has increased over a period of economic or financial crisis, as the debt crisis of the 1980s, the Tequila crisis in 1994-1995, the Southeast Asia crisis in 1997-1998, Russia in 1998, Brazil in 1998-1999 and Argentina in 1999-2002 or the global financial crisis since 2008.

ASV kā nozīmīgais cits Krievijas lomas identitātes veidošanā: 2007.-2017. gads

2019

Maģistra darba tēma ir “ASV kā nozīmīgais cits Krievijas lomas identitātes veidošanā: 2007.-2017. gads”. Darba mērķis ir noskaidrot, kāds laika periodā no 2007. gada līdz 2017. gadam ir bijis Krievijas diskurss attiecībā uz ASV, proti, vai Krievijas ieskatā ASV to atzīst vai neatzīst kā lielvaru, kā arī to, kādas tam ir attiecīgās sekas vienā vai otrā gadījumā. Darba teorētisko bāzi veido konstruktīvisma pieeja, konkrētāk skatījums uz identitātēm. Tāpat darbā izmantota kritiskā diskursa analīze. Darba rezultāti liecina par to, ka ASV neatzīstot Krieviju kā lielvaru, tās retorika kļūst revizionistiska.