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Examines six issues to decide whether total quality management (TQM) concepts can improve the effectiveness of company‐wide financial activities, i.e. the finance function. These issues address the basic role of a central finance department; TQM concepts in specific financial processes...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of leadership roles on the quality of services provided … Technological Educational Institution (TEI) of Larissa, a structured questionnaire is developed to measure leadership roles and … quality in services and internal processes. The competing values model is adopted to operationalise the eight leadership roles …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain the relationships between empowering leadership and a …. Moreover, the empirical findings indicate that both empowering leadership and a humorous work climate are able to trigger … relationship between empowering leadership, a humorous work climate, and the service employees' innovative behaviour. Research …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe health promotion activities accomplished within a project and to … promotion project currently being carried out at eight Swedish elementary schools has been studied. In earlier research a … the eight different schools in the initial stage of the project. The leaders at the schools were informed of the results …
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. Transformational leadership represented the leader-related factors, learning orientation represented the self-related factors and …-related factors (transformational leadership). Furthermore, creative self-efficacy has a positive effect on innovative activities …
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identified three leadership styles that were based on Quinn’s theoretical model of competing leadership roles. Three leadership … leadership styles are influenced by various factors such as personal values, job characteristics, job satisfaction …
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, critical thinking, functional knowledge, and leadership. Research limitations/implications – This study does not address …
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This paper analyzes the concept of racism in the context of business ethics and globalization. It first introduces three ethical traditions to understand moral issues in business: deontological, utilitarian and virtue ethics. Then it discusses about the challenges and demands that globalization...
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delivery of human services in a number of advanced nations. The purpose of this paper is to advance a theory of leadership to …/methodology/approach – Examines the conditions under which leadership style is likely to prevail and the influence they are likely to have on the … direction of local government reform. Findings – Advances a theory of leadership to better understand this problem and its …
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demand‐driven project proposals, ensuring transparency and accountability, leadership training and lobbying for resources … resources, supportive leadership, development of needs‐based and demand‐driven programmes, and effective management can have a … significant influence on the sustainability of local NGOs. Significantly, leadership emerged as the most important factor to …
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