... Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Leadership development Leadership Behaviour Lean production Although the importance of leadership has been recognized implicitly since the early descriptions of the Toyota Production System (TPS) (Sugimori et al...

...Francis Amagoh Purpose It is important that organizations embark on leadership development programs that will enhance leadership effectiveness. The purpose of this article is to identify some leadership development initiatives. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a review...

.... Globalization Leadership development Cultural diversity affects the way leaders go about defining their roles as leaders and applying themselves to the responsibilities of leadership. Business has until now been contextualised within a particular set of values based on particular world views...

...Philip L. Quaglieri; Sherry H. Penney; Jennifer Waldner Purpose The Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) at the College of Management at U Mass, Boston is an executive leadership development program for mid‐career professionals (average age 35) in the Greater Boston Area. The program was founded because...

...Chris Sigaloff; Iselien Nabben; Erwin Bergsma Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an alternative model of a leadership‐development program. Design/methodology/approach A leadership‐development program based on a “closure‐type description” instead of an “input‐type description...

..., that can simply be implemented. The following pragmatic definition (Smith and Rayment, 2007 , p. 14) may assist leaders in their inquiry here: Leadership Leadership development Workplace Ethics The world is changing and it is changing fast! Globalisation, information technology...

... rather than relying on formal leaders. Leadership Leadership development © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Thought leadership is based on the power of ideas to transform the way we think. Ideas for new products or services are sometimes so demonstrable or convincing...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Decision making Information research Leadership development “Well, what do you think?” Hoping to increase market share, a major food producer had appointed a director of new‐channel sales to come up with creative ways to merchandise its products...

...Erwin Rausch; Veronica Burke; David Collins Purpose This paper aims to discuss a framework for analysing the learning and transfer of conflict handling skills via leadership development programmes. The framework links the role of knowledge in skill acquisition to the process of learning transfer...

... can be educated. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Leadership Training management Leadership development Public and private organizations continue to embrace the myth that they can develop effective leaders by investing millions of dollars and many hours in leadership training...

... Group Publishing Limited 2005 Leadership development Management effectiveness Education Change management If leaders are born not made – and if no one can teach anyone else to improve – let's start investigating leadership in the biology lab rather than in the business world (Steve...

.... coordinating; and 5. controlling. Leadership development Decision making Management technique Management effectivness This paper discusses an approach to education and development for leadership, as distinct from education about leadership. It is based on a relatively simple decision...