¶ … George Hanbury, Alka Sapat, and Charles Washington and published in the article "Know Yourself and Take Charge of Your Own Destiny: the 'Fit Model' of Leadership," found that there is a direct correlation between the way that those in authority deal with their subordinates. There are different theories and ideas about how the correct leader for a group should be determined. One theory, the "fit model" of leadership states that people who are the best fit for a position of leadership should be the ones who are chosen to fill those roles. Fitness has to do with the knowledge that a person has of an organization or the purposes of that organization. They must have a personality as well as a psychological profile which is complimentary to the general makeup of the employees or subordinates within the given setting. It also refers to their ability to lead in a general sense and the way that they can get others to perform their job efficiently and of suitable quality. This particular research examines fitness and whether or not this fit model of leadership...
Ultimately they found six factors which to use in order to determine a manager's fitness for his or her position. These include: his or her leadership style, his or her personality type, his or perception about their fit in the position of leadership, the way that members of the city council view the person's fitness, the demographics which the city council is made up of, and the demographics of the population of the city in which the individual is managing. Leadership style is an important factor in determining fitness because if a person's style does not fit in with the rest of the employees, within the city office in this case, then that leader will not be effective. If he or she is more dictatorial and the employees are used to being cooperative and dynamic, then the manager will not be successful. The opposite is also true; if the employees are used to being micro-managed then they will be…
humorous writing that still makes the reader stop and think about what they are reading. In "Would Hemingway Get Into Harvard?" The authors, John Katzman, Andy Lutz, and Erik Olson offer up a funny essay about the new SAT writing test. To "test" the test, they use two passages from two of the world's greatest writers, Ernest Hemingway and Shakespeare. Predictably, under the new SAT grading standards, both these writers
However, historians tell us that this is actually not the case. Certainly if one reads Dickens one finds that England of the 19th century was far from familial; some of the materials out of the American Colonial periods show that the family was mostly an iron handed parent and rather aloof father. Just as there is no such thing as an ideal family, the fact of the matter is
2. But I have also had some top-notch guidance bringing me to where I am now: teachers at the culinary institute and role models at my favorite restaurants throughout the world. III. How I will use the award for the benefit of humanity as a whole and myself in particular A. The prestige of the award 1. This is one of the most significant awards in the professional culinary community. 2. I am honored
Not that people should make fun of their own situations, no matter how good or bad, but that humans function better when they can see the humor in every day life. When they begin to understand that humor is all around them, and begin to take themselves less seriously, they can begin to open up to the many other wonderful experiences around them when they otherwise may not have
It is known that the researcher recorded whether or not the subject remembered a given sentence. However, there is no explanation given with respect to partial memory of a sentence. Without that, we can only guess that the researcher used a binary scale (yes/no) to measure whether or not the subject remembered a given sentence. Schmidt and Williams (2001) conducted a study entitled "Memory for humorous cartoons." The purpose of
Another example of scenes -- and characters -- creating both a balance and a contrast between humor and seriousness comes from the Duke and the King. These two characters appear in many scenes of the novel, and their escapades and claims are a definite source of humor (and frustration) in the novel. One of the most poignant scenes in the book, however, is one Huck sees these two finally receive
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