Leader vs. Manager vs. Executive … one of these 3 terms does not belong here. Which one? Leader! In business, leadership is a trait of a manager useful to exert formal authority in interacting with others. It is also a trait of the informal leaders, people that are managers of expertise. Leadership is a concept to be...
read moreFirst time I heard about “locus of control” from one of my colleagues, a psychologist. My friend Google helped me to find out more about it. Julian Rotter in 1966 published an article about locus of control. He is also developed the social learning theory (a post about it to follow). It seems that there are three...
read moreThe performance of a team is based on what you start with, namely what type and number of people are in the team and how you define what they have to do (tasks). The ideal tasks are divisible tasks. They can be separated easily and the team members are happy with things being easily identified. The unitary tasks are those for which...
read moreJob Characteristics Model (JCM) is almost 30 years old. There are 5 characteristics defined by J. Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham in 1980. A sixth one, self-expression, was added by O’Brien in 1985. Task Identity – related to the fact that a piece of work can be identified as having a beginning and an end or...
read moreGoal Setting Theory is about having a goal and how its existence motivates you to create a list of tasks and develop a strategy in order to reach your objective. Edwin Locke – Goal Setting Theory states that clear goals and appropriate feedback is a powerful motivation tool for your employees. Characteristics of a...
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