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An Insight into Leadership Types

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Transactional In transactional style people are motivates through rewards and punishments. Employees receive rewards such as bonuses when they accomplish goals. Under this leadership style, the primary duty of subordinates is to do what their manager has assigned them to do.                          Transformational This leadership style depends on high levels of communication between management and employees to meet goals. Leader encourages employees and enhance productivity through communication and high visibility. Leaders focus on the crucial issues of the organization and delegate smaller tasks to the team members to attain objectives. Laissez-Faire The laissez-faire leaders do not perform direct supervision of employees. They never provide weekly or monthly feedback to their staff. Highly experienced and well trained employees requiring little guidance fall under the laissez-faire leadership style. The disadvantages of laissez-faire style are low produ

What to Keep in Mind When Planning Interviews

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1.  Most likely three people selection committee comprising men and woman should be involved in selecting a candidate. However in selection process, it is advisable to invite appropriate people to participate in a selection process. The participant includes colleagues who work on similar projects, other members of the development team and Individuals who are knowledgeable about the position and senior managers with 10 years field related experience. 2.   It is recommended that a pre-determined list of job-related selection criteria should be the basis of selection of candidate to be interviewed. The measurement tools which are usually used in interview process are: Education, Knowledge of the job, Technical skills and abilities, Problem-solving abilities, Communication skills and Management skills   3 . It is always recommended that the selection of interview place should be accessible to everyone including people who have physical disabilities. To avoid distraction such a

Let's Start With Ourselves!

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Omer was in trouble, he could not study at all and his exam was in a couple of minutes. During his way to the college, he had managed to scribble notes on his palm which one of his friends had mentioned to be important. When the question paper was distributed, luckily, a question did appear asking of the notes he had on his palm, which he jotted down quickly. The answers to the other questions were dictated to him by his friends.  Later that day, his friends got in a heated argument regarding the amount of c orruption that was taking place in the country. Omer had a thousand things to say against the corruption that was being done by the dishonest politicians and if he got a chance he would change the whole system. To him, there was a vast difference between cheating and corruption and on one hand where he regarded cheating as acceptable, on the other, corruption was a no. But was it? At that time, the platform that Omer had was very small but what was wrong was wrong