Modern Management: concepts and skills, 14/e

Leadership: Emerging Concepts for Modern Times

Leaders in today’s organizations have been confronting many situations rarely encountered by organizational leaders of the past.⁴⁹ Never before have managers faced such tremendous aftershocks of economic hard times as well as ethical meltdowns of companies like Enron, WorldCom, and Adelphia. Today’s leaders are often called upon to make unprecedented, massive personnel cuts in order to eliminate unnecessary levels of organizations and thereby lower labor expenses, to create work teams to enhance organizational decision making and workflow, to reengineer work so that organization members will be more efficient and effective, and to initiate programs designed to improve the overall quality of organizational ...