Personality, Goal-setting, and Motivation: Locke and Latham perspectives By: Leontes Dorzilme, Doctoral student   Introduction For a long time, the study related to motivation at work was not a priority for researchers. The field was dominated by behaviorists and the problematic of motivation...

Systems thinking: Leadership behaviors, ethics, and outcomes Leontes Dorzilme October 2013   A clear shared vision is the most powerful way to create a learning organization. A transformative leadership style may create a desire to learn and to innovate within the organization. The role...

Systems thinking: A shift of mind By: Leontes Dorzilme September, 2013   The concept of system implies the interrelation of many parts of the same body. The human being is the obvious example of a system. Each part of the system must operate properly to be sure that the system is...

Learning organization: The influence of leadership and organizational design By: Leontes Dorzilme September, 2013   The learning organization has proven to be the most effective in today’s global business environment dominated by technology and constant change. The learning organization...

  By: Leontes Dorzilme Introduction The stakeholders both in nonprofit or for-profit organizations are playing a key role in a formal or non formal interaction with management. The company is the reflection of the stakeholders’ values, goals, and needs in a certain way. They are implied in...

Organizational structure, life cycles, and decision making adapted to contingency for effectiveness By: Leontes Dorzilme   Introduction If the organization is not paying great attention to the constituencies and contingencies, it may be effective, but not successful, (Daft, 2010). The...

The concept of organizational life cycle applies a humanization form to explain that organizations are born, grow and die like people. It looks very practical to understand the organization in such a way because leadership style, structural design, and also the management approach will have to be...

 Can organizational effectiveness be measured by the degree to which the organization achieves its goals? I do agree that the organizational effectiveness is measured by the degree to which the organization achieves its goals. The goals are stated in each area in order to evaluate the degree...

Problems that could arise when using Open Systems Theory and teh ways to address themThe open system theory has been developed after the World War II as the opposite of the Elton Mayo and Henry Fayol approaches of organization which presented them as a closed system, an autonomous entity with its...

The best approach to measure organizational effectiveness and to determine structural deficiency Dalton, D. R. et al. (1980), research suggests that situational and structural variables may be more associated with organizational performance than either of these variables acting alone. Depending on...