...associate’s degree verses a bachelor’s degree nurse. Then finally this paper is going to give a personal patient care example of care that differed when given by an AND verses a BSN nurse. Associates Degree (ADN) An associate’s degree in nursing (ADN) is a two year academic degree awarded by a community college. This degree usually requires at least one year of prerequisites prior to entering the nursing program. The ADN was first introduced in 1956 by Mildred Montag to help alleviate the nursing shortage after World War II (GCU, 2014). Ms. Montag envisioned a new level of nurse from the current apprentice nurse that was trained at a hospital and the BSN nurse that was trained at a four year university. Ms. Montag created a degree program that would allow nurses to be trained at a faster pace and also attract students that did not fit into the hospital trained setting or who did not have time for a four year degree. The first ADN programs helped attract the older students and those who were married, widowed or separated because hospital programs did not allow older or married students (Mahaffey PhD, 2002). Bachelor’s Degree (BSN) A Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) is a four year academic degree awarded by a University. The BSN program usually requires little to no prerequisites because their...
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...Evolution of Leadership Theories Author University Leadership is, and always has been, a vital aspect of social and economic constructs. It is essential to the survival of societies, industries, organizations, and virtually any group of individuals that come together for a common purpose. However, leadership is difficult to define in a single, definitive sense. As such, theories of leadership, what constitutes a great leader, and how leaders are made have evolved constantly throughout history, and still continue to change today in hopes of improving upon our understanding of leadership, its importance, and how it can be most effective in modern organizational cultures. This evolving trend of leadership can generally be seen throughout four distinct eras, the Great Man Leadership era, the Rational Management era, the Team or Lateral Leadership era, and the Learning Leadership era (Daft, 2008, p. 21). Each era utilized a different way of thinking about leadership and leaders than the others, with each new era implementing a unique trend for leadership theories, and sometimes adapting and building upon existing leadership theories. The Great Man Leadership era was the earliest era, employed first by ancient philosophers, such as Plato and Aristotle, who believed that leaders were naturally born with special abilities that made them inherently great leaders (DeGrosky, 2007). The first leadership theory, called the Great Man theory, outlined that these “great men” were...
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...DEVELOPING LEADERS I/O Psychology Annotative Bibliography Myatt, M. (2012, December19). The #1 Reason Leadership Development Fails, http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemyatt/2012/12/19/the-1-reason-leadership-development-fails/ The main focus of this article is to make companies understand the difference in training and developing leaders. What does these meaning? Well according to dictionary dictionary.com the difference between training and development is: Training is the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained. Developing is having a standard of living or level of industrial production well. See most companies think to have good leadership you need to training, but in reality these leaders need to be developed. This one reason why this is the # 1 reason why leadership fails. For example in the article it explains that training takes place within a monologue (lecture/ presentation) rather than a dialog. This article wants company to understand the difference and help make better leaders. Cattrell, D. 2002, 2009.Monday Morning Leaderships; Corner Stone Leadership Institute In the book “Monday Morning Leadership” this is based on a manger named Jeff who was successful for years and then had a turn of events happened and he was starting to fall in a slump. With meeting Tony, who was a semi- retired business leader, who spent time writing books and coaching top executives? He helps...
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...Ms. Forsythe’s, The Director of Operations, proposal to fund a new leadership development program. He expresses to the CEO of Cliffside Holding Company of Massapequa, Ms. Cynthia Castle, his dilemma which is, “Is it necessary to invest in a leadership development program?” (A. Ravaswami, personal communication, October 10, 2012). In which he states that the senior executive members never attended a leadership seminar but on average, the company's growth continues to excel. He challenges the proposition by stating that “leaders are born, not made”. He points out that leadership comes from within and that you cannot make someone become a leader. For one, to be a leader, he/she must possess qualities such as intelligence, motivation, and the ability to be influential. He goes on to list a group of leaders who possess similar qualities in comparison to one another. His theory disputes that it would be meaningless to train those who aren't natural born leaders as opposed to those who are. The methodology of Asking the Right Questions was used to analyze the memo which involves ten critical analysis steps to analyze and evaluate the author's argument. What are the issue and conclusions? The issues in the memo are that the Cliffside Holding Company of Massapequa are mulling on the decision to budget on a leadership training program. According to Mr. Anil Ravaswami, Vice- President of...
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...Are Leaders Born or Made? Professional Development-MBA 525 St. Leo University Bruce Hammond February 10, 2013 Abstract This paper will discuss whether the greatest leaders are made or born. While many people are born with natural, instinctive leadership qualities and traits; many people can become great leaders with the training, earned respect and situations or environment. This paper will also discuss what makes an effective leader. Paper Section Whether great leaders are born or are they made is a greatly debated subject. Some people are certainly born with leadership instinct(s) that may never be fully realized and developed. Others may have traits that may not be traditionally thought of as natural born leader traits but they possess other skills and the desire to lead that can turn them into an effective leader. "Leaders are developed. Leadership is nothing more than a collection of skills, that when employed, produces results." (Garic, 2006) In today's ever-changing job market and economy, many leaders and many types of effective leaders will be needed. Leadership development is the way to mold various personal traits: personality, talent, honesty, ability, sincerity, skill, confidence, integrity, into a good leader. As Pace states: "There are no set rules for what makes a good leader, but most successful leaders can draw on several qualities to help them lead." (Pace, 2006) Leaders draw on personal experience, as well as, training, knowledge...
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...a critical thinking method by creating a 10-step strategy process that can be used to evaluate a memo from Mr. Anil Ravaswami, Vice-President of Human Resources of Cliffside Holding Company of Massapequa. The memo expressed his opinion about the junior leadership training program to Ms. Cynthia Castle, CEO of Cliffside Holding Company of Massapequa. Step 1: What are the issues and the conclusion? Finding the issue is raising questions about what is right and wrong, good or bad (Browne & Keely, 2010). The company want to send employees off-site each year for leadership training. (The request was for his office to evaluate the merit of the request.) The twelve senior executives hadn’t want to attend the seminar and yet the company was successful. They think that it is a waste. Mr. Anil Ravaswami, vice president of Human Resources believes that leadership traits are innate. The issue set forth in Mr. Anil’s memo is whether to invest financially in the junior executives for annual leadership training. The conclusion set forth by Mr. Anil is not to invest in the training program. He said: “Cliffside Holding Company of Massapequa should not invest in the proposed initiative to send its junior executives for annual leadership training.” (Cliffside Holding Company of Massapequa, 2014). He believes that it would be a wasteful programs. Step 2: What Are the Reasons? It’s similar to Six Sigma. The...
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...Michael dell leadership style Introduction Michael dell, born in February 1965, at the age of eight he showed his attitude towards people. Because he was never satisfied by the ordinary and he wanted to improve more and more to reach for the best. Dell started his career at the age of 12 by getting to know more about the stamps. He started to sale stamps where he earned $2000 and another thing is that he got great learning experience for the future venture. At the age of 16 Dell started selling the newspaper subscription of “The Houston post” this opportunity gave him more and more power of the market segmentation and he got the ideas to maximize the customers and dell empowered himself and he got help from school friend as well from this business he earned $18000. At the age of 18 Dell still freshman at school, and he got the vendor’s licence. This empowered him to sell the high performance computers that he upgraded. When dell joined the University of Texas at Austin, at the age of 19, he was a student of university when he started his business with the name of PC’s limited in storey residency hall Dobie centre. In 1992 he formulated the company in public and dell computer entered the fortune 500 list of the world largest companies. Finally he got the success in his entire life with his better performance. At that moment he was the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of dell. He was the founder of the dell Inc in 1992. “Technology has always...
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...Are leaders born or made? Explain. Where in your background would we find evidence of your leadership capacity and/or potential? Leaders are definitely made and not born. People can become leaders through the process of teaching, learning and observation. Leadership is a set of skills that can be learned by training, perception, practice and experience over time. Some people think leaders are born naturally intelligent, strategic, visionary and charismatic, able to articulate a plan and rally their teams around it. Others believe that leaders are made through needing ongoing experience, training, coaching and mentoring. Some would also say that leaders are both born and made naturally intelligent and enhanced with education, training, coaching and experience A leader is either a captain of a group or a person who is able to organize, manage, make decision, analyze, negotiate, solve problem, and train people. A qualified leader at least must have good leadership and good relationship to ensure that his group is working well and smooth. Leadership is very important for a qualified leader, because leadership affects the performance of a team, an excellent leadership will improve a team performance. A good relationship will help the leader to communicate to his team members easily and send right message to his team members. Whether he or she has to direct, supervise, guide and instruct the team. These are the duties of a team leader to promote unity of his team and to ensure that...
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...Categorize Leadership Theories Leadership theories enumerated by Grossman and Valiga (2009) are the well-known great man theory, trait theory, situational theory, and the contemporary theory. The great man theory has the notion that leaders are born and not made, whereas the trait theory categorizes leaders as that of certain qualities that correlate with leadership skills. The situational theory, on the other hand, gives significance to the particular situation for a leader to be effective. Contemporary type of leadership seems to be the practice of modern kinds of leaders. The contemporary theory of leadership combines the leaders, his/her followers, and the situation at hand for leadership to be effective. Our group all agree that the Kaiser Permanente Ambulatory setting practices both the contemporary and trait theories of leadership. We have seen leaders and managers appointed to their positions based on their attribute from people they know and some appointed based on support from their team members. The nurse leaders especially are selected based on how involved they are with their teams, how they manage conflicts and their performance on fiscal responsibility. The nurse leaders are recognized as followers of the mission and vision of the organization, that is, providing quality and affordable care for members and the vision for the organization as a leader in healthcare in the country. Leadership Theory of Each Key Player in KP Ambulatory Care Nursing Practice The...
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...infosys Limited, formerly Infosys Technologies Limited, (BSE: 500209, NSE: INFY, NASDAQ: INFY) is a global technology services company headquartered in Bangalore (Bengaluru), India. Infosys is the second largest IT company in India with 133,560 employees (including subsidiaries) as of March 2011.[1] Infosys is ranked 28th globally in the list of IT services providing firms.[2] It has offices in 33 countries and development centers in India, China, Australia, UK, Canada, Brazil and Japan.[3]The company offers software products for the banking industry and business process management services also provides end-to-end business solutions. Infosys Technologies has emerged as the best company to work for in India, according to the BT-Indicus-PeopleStrong 9th Annual Survey of India's Best Employers. Even as the Indian IT major shone, many other biggies missed getting into the list of the 10 best companies to work for in India. These include L&T (11th), Hindustan Unilever (12th), ONGC (13th), Tata Motors (14th), ITC (15th), ICICI Bank (19th), and Tata Steel (20th). About 9,000 employees from across 1,000 organisations across 800 cities participated in the survey. They were asked to rate companies on six key parameters, namely, career and personal growth, prestige/company reputation, training/coaching/mentoring, financial compensation and benefits, job content, and merit-based performance evaluation. While creative people in advertising and media gave little importance to the...
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...Donald Trump - Reincarnation of King Arthur? Throughout history, King Arthur has been a great political figure, and part of his legend states he will be reincarnated every so often. Therein lies a question, who might King Arthur be today? The answer might surprise some. The strongest reincarnation of King Arthur is Donald Trump. He is very much like King Arthur for a few reasons; Trump and Arthur were both away from their parents during a time in which they were trained on how to become a great leader, both do their best to make the world better than how it is, and both know the importance of team leadership to their field of expertise. King Arthur’s parent orphaned him after he was born of a weird series of events. He was then sent to be...
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...A paper on charisma and whether it is inherited in genes or if it is made through social influence. By Hussein Hussein. Keiser University. Introduction When thinking of charisma one is immediately brought back to the movie, Back to the Future, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. The movie is based on a boy named Marty Mcfly, played by Michael J. Fox. Marty travels back in time in an automobile rigged with a flux capacitor by his scientist friend, played by Christopher Lloyd rightfully dubbed, Doc. At the beginning of the movie Marty’s parents, especially his father are un-happy and almost cowardly. As Marty meets his parents in the past he immediately finds out why. His father is a bullied “loser” who does not stick up for himself. He decides to change that. Throughout the movie Marty decides to help his father become a winner and stand up for himself. Spoiler alert for those whom have not seen the movie; he does. He helps his father finally stand up to his bully and get the girl of his dreams. Marty returns to the future only to find his father a strong and happy alpha male, with a successful business and even more successful marriage. Although this is a work of fiction, it helps put some perspective on the long debated question. Is Charisma inherited through genes or is it developed through certain circumstances in one’s life? History Charisma was first discussed by Max Weber, whom is a German sociologist and well versed in the study of psychopathology. When...
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... Business Ethics This paper will attempt to decipher the leadership style and techniques used by Robert Nardelli during his tenure as the CEO of Home Depot. To help decipher his leadership style, the paper will incorporate three leadership theories discussed within our text. The first leadership theory is the “Trait Theory”. Assumptions from the great man theory lead us to believe that people are born with inherited behaviors; certain traits, characteristics, and behaviors indicate that an individual is a born leader. A great leader is also born with a natural mixture of leadership traits. The second leadership theory is “Behavioral Therapy”. Assumptions with the behavioral theory indicated that leaders are groomed and prepared; they do not come prewired with innate leadership characteristics. The behavioral characteristics of a successful leader is a learned and honed skill attained through intense mentoring and practical experience. The last leadership theories this paper will discuss are the “Situational and Contingency Theories. Assumptions with the situational theory are, as the name suggest and based upon a leader taking the best course of action while taking into account the situation at hand. Based or dependent upon various situational factors, assumptions of contingency theory include proficiency and behavior of followers and the style of leadership the leader chooses. Next, using my personal opinion, text material, and research:...
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...great leaders born or made? Introduction In order to run a successful business, an organization needs effective leaders. Leaders and employees are subject to a worldwide search because of the competitive nature of business these days. Leadership is more of actions rather than preaching. Leadership is person's ability to lead from the front with conviction of great vision and passion, despite many setbacks. It also involves having a sense of responsibility, setting a role model with qualities such as courage, conviction and commitment. Also, leadership is a way of calling ‘we’ not ‘I’ because there is not one leader who has succeeded as an individual. It is important to know whether leadership is a talent or a skill. If the leadership is a talent, then it is an inborn quality as talents are intrinsic, but if leadership is a skill, then it can be obtained by rapacious learning, continuous practice, training, experience and reading. If the leadership is a talent, true leaders are born, but if it is a skill, true leaders are made. Is true leadership born or manufactured? This is a timeless as the age old controversy about the chicken and the egg. To cut to the discussion, the answer is: “mostly made.” Great leaders are made since leadership is a skill that can be leant through education, continuous practice, training, and experiences. Great leaders develop/advance through a never-ending process of self-study and complete education. Analysis Are true leaders born or made? To cut...
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...| LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES IN THE MEDIA ‘‘DOING WHAT IT TAKES’’ There are various leadership skills, but one which is very crucial is the mental ability of a leader to endure and persevere. ‘‘Doing what it takes’’ also refers to the determination, persistence and inflexibility of a leader when there is a goal to be achieved. LEADERSHIP THEORIES AND CONCEPTS THE GREAT MAN THEORY The Great man theory believes that leadership cannot be taught or trained, but that those equipped with such qualities are born. Leaders are born with exceptional qualities, and not made. The notion assumes that leadership is hereditary and leaders usually rise from the aristocracy. In relation to the notion of doing what it takes, the theory assumes that is only great men who have the ability to do what it takes to succeed. THE TRAIT THEORY Trait theorists contended that there was a finite set of personal characteristics or inner traits, which distinguished effective leaders from non-effective leaders. The leader is endowed with superior qualities, which can be mental or moral. In this theory, traits of persistence and determination are common to leaders. Leaders who can ‘‘do what it takes’’ have mental traits such as task-persistence, the ability to understand, learn and to adapt. They also have moral qualities such as loyalty, firmness, and self-assurance. BEHAVIOURAL LEADERSHIP STYLE Under the behavioural leadership style, there is a focus on the leader’s behaviours that affect follower’s...
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