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Light from Many Lamps~Wendell Willkie
Wendell Willkie was an American politician. He always he maintains integrity in his life. He was originally a Democrat (Columbian College of Arts & Sciences, n.d.). When he was against the New Deal and the government’s lack of military preparedness by Franklin D. Roosevelt, he joined the Republicans and ran for a nominee of President …
Learning Activity~Summary of 500
I cannot believe this is the last learning activity. This course was a big challenge for me. When I started, I even did not know the definition of leadership. Each topics every week were new and exciting to learn. If I could only pick two of them which attracted me the most , I would …
Learning Activity 2
According to John Smart(2015),the three technology including communication technology, computing technology and nano technology has accelerated to change our world. The uprise of the new communication technology with the internet has been bringing our life drastic change in many ways. The society is changing at an unprecedented speed and complicity that many companies face on …
Women in Leadership-Interview of Lydia Drasic
I interviewed Lydia Drasic (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lydia-drasic-482a4914/?originalSubdomain=ca) who was a former executive director at BC Centre for Disease Control. She had been working as a female leader in the public health care system of British Columbia since 2004. Originally, she was a practitioner nurse and decided to go back to higher education when her daughter started to …
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Learning Activity 2
Normally inclusive is invisible and hardly recognized, whereas exclusive is quickly recognized, hardly ignored (Nugent, Pollack and Travis, 2016). For this problem, I think unconscious bias is the important key. For gender equality, people thought it was normal to treat male and female differently for a long time in the past. The society has changed …
Learning Activity 1~Respond to Case Study 15.3
Case study 15.3 In spite of uprising of movement of gender equality, there is still the existence of general gender difference. Although “the glass ceiling” is often used for a metaphor for the barrier of women leadership, the situations around female leadership is more complicated and rather use “the leadership labyrinth” (Northouse, 2019) . The …
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Learning Activity 2 ~ Being an Ethical Leader
Since Bass states in his book that “transactional leadership may lead to expected performance, transformational leadership has the potential to result in performance beyond expectations” (as cited in Wang, Oh, Courtright, & Colbert, 2011). Transformational leadership has been in the spotlight. However, it was not clear how and what kind of performances transformational leaders influence. …
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Learning Activity 1~Being an Ethical Leader
According to BuildingCapacity (2013), ethics is “values and beliefs that define what is right and what is wrong behavior”. Regardless of the leadership style, ethics is the foundation of leadership style directly related to leaders’ behaviours and decisions (Northouse, 2019). Ethic gives leaders criteria of judgements. However, there were few articles about ethical aspects of …
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Learning Activity 3~create an employee training plan
According to Northouse(2018), it is important for transformational leaders to “exhibit greater individual consideration and promote intellectual stimulation for followers”(p.183). Also, for servant leaders, follower’s career development is the first priority. Servant leaders help employees grow and succeed with providing the followers mentoring and support.(Northouse, 2018) Here is an imaginary employee training plan if I need …
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