Help Chat Online.comRelational Concerns in Corporate Environments V
Industry will always outpace humanity, said Douglas McGregor (Heil, Bennis, & Stephens, 2000). True words in an industrialized age and even more so in a computerized, Internet era. Initial ideas for and assumptions one hundred years ago did not often focus on the individuals’ motivation or their sense of dignity. [...]
Relational Concerns in Corporate Environments IV
Human motivation and public behavior are not synonymous. Individuals’ behavior is a reflection of their biological, cultural, and current contextual environment. Individuals cannot be counted on to perform as expected even when the working environment or lived context is identical. Organizational development and humanistic psychology have learned much from each [...]
The Fluid Nature of the Leadership Role
A leader must acknowledge that members of a group become part of the collective leadership, playing in and out of a leading role as individuals with suggestions, complaints, and directing pivotal change within the group dialogue. This may change the role of the named leader into a follower or [...]
Leadership development theory, by putting words and practice to the more successful, organic practices of past groups and old communities, becomes a system and structure of carefully organized dances. Peter Senge (1990) believes that this structure influences our behavior. Often certain beliefs that ruled groups of people were dropped because of their discontinuity issues. Either [...]
