Alps Workshop 3 p17 Leadership through goal setting

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Workshop 3 p15 Developing and Using Leadership Skills

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Conceptual and critical analysis of the Implicit Leadership Theory

The purpose of this essay is to present a conceptual and critical analysis of the Implicit Leadership Theory (ILT). The objectives are: 1) explaining the main concepts of the ILT; 2) explaining the main processes of the ILT; 3) identifying constructivist assumptions in the ILT; 4) identifying constructionist assumptions in the ILT, and 5) analyzing critically theoretical assumptions of the ILT. At analyzing constructivism and constructionism assumptions in the ILP, the constructivist leadership and the constructionist leadership are described. At the end, a critical analysis of TLP ILT and conclusions are presented.

The integral leadership in organizations

Integral leadership is an application of Wilber’s integral model, which acknowledged the interior, exterior, individual and collective dimensions that are present in all the circumstances of the life and that determine the way of conceiving, interpreting and carrying out the leaders’ actions. The present article exposes how the integral leader is understood from the point of view of the different dimensions and his interrelationships. It includes quadrants, levels, states, lines of development and types, characteristics the integral leader must have in his or her role inside the organization and the practices of transformation that the leader can use to become an integral leader.

Leadership: A complex concept awaiting a new explanation?

Leaders have the task of developing future strategy while being consciously engaged in executing current strategy and mapping landmarks, pathways and obstacles which they meet asthey endeavor to traverse challenging, rapidly evolving terrain. In an era in which there is a global leadership credibility crisis, business as usual is no longer an option in the pursuit of the longer-term survival of any organization. The leadership approach to complexity outlined here is based on learning to achieve results through experimentation, learning, and reflection. A case study is presented that illustrates the application of this approach. In this paper, the reader is first introduced to a brief overview of some key definitions and debates, shifting leadership boundaries, and emerging accountabilities and opportunities. This is followed by a summary of some of the key topics and issues that face current and future leaders.

Learning in community : small group leadership for educational change.

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Prevalencia de los factores de riesgo psicosocial presentes en la población trabajadora de una entidad de salud de segundo nivel en el año 2013

Introducción: Los factores de riesgo psicosocial surgen a partir de una interacción dinámica de las cualidades humanas con el medio ambiente de trabajo, es decir, todas aquellas habilidades, necesidades, expectativas y costumbres de los trabajadores. En efecto, estas interacciones entre las condiciones del medio ambiente laboral y los factores humanos del trabajador, cuando son manejadas de manera negativa, conducen a alteraciones emocionales, problemas de comportamiento y cambios bioquímicos y neurohormonales, que a su vez pueden producir riesgos adicionales de enfermedades mentales y físicas. Objetivo: Determinar las prevalencias de los factores de riesgo psicosocial presentes en la población trabajadora de una entidad de salud de segundo nivel en el año 2013. Metodología: Se llevó a cabo un estudio de corte transversal, utilizando fuentes de datos secundarios de una Empresa de Salud del Estado de nivel II, donde se aplicó el instrumento de la batería de riesgo psicosocial, diseñada por el Ministerio de la Protección Social en asocio con la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Durante este período el hospital contaba con la gestión de 155 empleados, de los cuales 54 desempeñaban labores administrativas y 101 prestaban servicios asistenciales. La participación por género se distribuyó así: 104 mujeres y 51 hombres. La prevalencia de los factores de riesgo psicosocial se estimó por medio de los baremos establecidos por el Ministerio de la Protección Social para identificar el nivel de riesgo, los resultados fueron analizados desde estadísticas descriptivas y la aplicación de pruebas estadísticas en la comparación de los puntajes transformados de los dominios y dimensiones de los cuestionarios intra y extralaboral, según las características sociodemográficas y ocupacionales. Resultados: Se identificó una mayor proporción de personas con riesgo psicosocial intralaboral (45,8% riesgo muy alto), mientras que en la evaluación de los factores de riesgo extralaboral el comportamiento fue totalmente opuesto (78.1% sin riesgo), se pudo establecer que una mayor proporción de mujeres ejerce la profesión de la enfermería (71,3% asistencial) y la modalidad de contratación prevalente reportada fue a través de una cooperativa de trabajo asociado (82,2% asistenciales). Se determinó que existen diferencias en la percepción de los factores psicosociales tanto intra como extralaborales en los grupos con diferentes características sociodemográficas y ocupacionales. Conclusión: La investigación evidenció el impacto negativo de los factores de riesgo intralaboral sobre los trabajadores de la E.S.E, condición que afectó la percepción de la vida laboral, la productividad y el nivel de satisfacción de los trabajadores, por lo que se destaca la pertinencia de implementar actividades de intervención y prevención a corto plazo en el marco de un programa de vigilancia epidemiológica.

Leadership and performance in multicultural business environments a qualitative study in German-Colombian teams

Multicultural leadership is a topic a great interest in nowadays globalized work environment. Colombia emerges as an attractive marketplace with appealing business opportunities, especially for German enterprises. After presenting Colombia’s current political, social and economic situation, the thesis elaborates the complex subject of cultural differences while focusing on the peculiarities of German and Colombian national cultures. The resulting implications for a team’s collaboration and leader effectiveness are theoretically supported with reference to the landmark studies of Hofstede and GLOBE. By utilizing semi-structured interview techniques, a qualitative research enriches the previous findings and gives an all-encompassing insight in German-Colombian teamwork. The investigation identifies distinctive behavioral patterns and relations, which imply challenges and factors of success for multicultural team leaders. Finally, a categorical analysis examines the influence of cultural traits on team performance and evaluates the effectiveness of the applied leadership style.

Towards the 3rd wave school leadership. 'Hacia el 3er paradigma del liderazgo de la escuela'.

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Followers’ agreeableness and extraversion and their loyalty towards authentic leadership

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School leadership in a contradictory world

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Emergent leadership : is e-leadership importance in the quality of virtual education?

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The distributed nature of pattern generalization

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DAI-DEPUR: an integrated and distributed architecture for wastewater treatment plants supervision

The activated sludge process - the main biological technology usually applied to wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) - directly depends on live beings (microorganisms), and therefore on unforeseen changes produced by them. It could be possible to get a good plant operation if the supervisory control system is able to react to the changes and deviations in the system and can take the necessary actions to restore the system’s performance. These decisions are often based both on physical, chemical, microbiological principles (suitable to be modelled by conventional control algorithms) and on some knowledge (suitable to be modelled by knowledge-based systems). But one of the key problems in knowledge-based control systems design is the development of an architecture able to manage efficiently the different elements of the process (integrated architecture), to learn from previous cases (spec@c experimental knowledge) and to acquire the domain knowledge (general expert knowledge). These problems increase when the process belongs to an ill-structured domain and is composed of several complex operational units. Therefore, an integrated and distributed AI architecture seems to be a good choice. This paper proposes an integrated and distributed supervisory multi-level architecture for the supervision of WWTP, that overcomes some of the main troubles of classical control techniques and those of knowledge-based systems applied to real world systems