PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT

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Leadership Development

Transformational Leadership
Transformational leadership is a process of transforming the organizational behavior, the culture and the individuals; simultaneously transforming the leader himself.
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Leader Member Exchange

The Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) theory focuses on the amount of interaction between a leader and individual member.

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Purpose of Leadership

Discusses the most important aspect of leadership, it's purpose.

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Path Goal Leadership

The path-goal theory stresses that if the subordinates find the leadership style to be satisfying and it meets their expectations, they will be motivated towards the goal of leadership.

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Contingent Leadership

Contingency theory of leadership emphasizes that effectiveness of leadership is dependent on matching a leader’s style to right situation.

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Organizational Developement

Motivating the Millennials

Discusses application of motivational theories and transformational leadership to the generational behavior of Millennials

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Employee Motivation

What is employee motivation? This article describes the fundamental theories of employee motivation, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and factors that influences them.

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Individual Behavior in Organization
Discusses the important concept of an individual's behavior, it's cognitive psychology and how it affects the manager's task. Read more ...
Organizational lifecycle and decline

Discusses the life-cycle of an organization, its growth stages and its eventual decline.

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Organization's size and span of control

Every organization strives for growth, thereby increasing the management's span of control. But how does the organization size influences the structure of an organization? 

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Project Management

General Project Management Principles

This article discusses some of the basic principles of project management that applies to all projects.

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Project Complexities and Classification

Every project is unique and has a degree of complexity. It is necessary to understand the complexities early in order to derive the the appropriate management strategy and approach. This article will introduce the concept of complexities in the projects and use the defined researches to enable a project sponsor to pin point where the difficulty will arise if the project is given a 'go'........

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