JACKAREA DAWSON

Good leader must understand what, when, and how to use his power. When he or she uses the power, he or she has to apply it wisely. You have power over another person if that person has some interests or desires that only can be fulfilled by you. These interests or desires are the resources that only you can provide. In other words, the higher the dependency level, the greater the power you possess. Your power diminishes if other person dependency reduced. The level of dependency increases when the resources are important, scarce and nonsubstitutable. Hence, for a leader to become a good leader, he or she must know his or her followers’ dependency. He or she has to secure the resources that his or her followers are believing to be under his or her control. There are two types of power; formal and personal. Bases for formal power are coercive, reward and legitimate. In order to understand the difference between these three bases of power, let us refer to some of the important characte...

Ellis and Bochner (2000) advocate authoethnography, a form of writing that "make[s] the researcher's own experience a topic of investigation in its own right" (p. 733) rather than seeming "as if they're written from nowhere by nobody" (p. 734). Autoethnography is "an autobiographical genre of writing that displays multiple layers of consciousness, connecting the personal to the cultural" (p. 739); autoethnographers "ask their readers to feel the truth of their stories and to become coparticipants, engaging the storyline morally, emotionally, aesthetically, and intellectually" (p. 745). Some criticize this form of writing as sentimental, unscientific, and the product of the excesses of postmodernism. However, because of the epistemological difficulties involved with knowing how humans interact with their computers, I think this genre of writing may have something to contribute to discussions on cyberspace studies. Sherry Turkle's dis...

Charismatic versus Transformational Leadership “Charismatic leaders can be a transformational leader if their methods focus on changing the hearts and minds of the followers rather than simply creating a transactional reward system. However, not all transformational leaders are charismatic.” Of course, we will never be able to see into the heart and soul of other people, so we will never actually know their motivations. But, think of some of the great leaders from history and from your own experience. Let's look at a few examples: Pak Lah, Alex Ferguson, Tony Fernandez and Adolf Hitler, are they transformational or charismatic leader? Justifications based on the out of the box thinking. 1. Pak Lah is a transformational leader. It is difficult to have a charismatic leader in sequence. Mahathir is a charismatic leader and well-known for his inspiring modernization of Malaysia. During Pak Lah time continuous efforts had been taken to ensure the ethics and morality issues in...

Leadership vs Management Leadership is defined as the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of goals. Leadership is about coping with change, management is about coping with complexity. Good management brings about order and consistency by drawing up formal plans, designing rigid organization structures, and monitoring results against plans. Management consists of implementing the vision and strategy provided by leaders, coordinating and staffing the organization, and handling day-to-day problems. Leaders are born? In the trait theories of leadership leaders are born. Trait theories identify leaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics. These types of leaders can be described as charismatic, enthusiastic and courageous. Researchers have found that most of the traits emerge from the Big-5 Personality traits. It has been found that extraversion is the most important trait of effective leaders. Conscientiousness and openness to experience also showed str...

Penantian itu sudah berakhir... gerabak yang sarat baru sahaja berlepas sebentar tadi saratnya bukan kerana penumpang atau barangan muatan yang mempunyai nilai harga saratnya dek kerana bebanan dugaan dan rintangan yang mengisi penantian yang lama Tiada lambaian perpisahan hanya hamburan luahan kerinduan menuju ke destinasi ilmu yang tidak termimpi di masa kecil ku cuma mungkin sedikit terkilan aku kerana ia adalah impian seorang ayah (arwah) yang sering membisikkan di telinga ku tatkala lena dan jaga sekul mesti mau langah... (sekolah mesti sampai ke peringkat yang tertinggi)...

Bukannya bintang tak akan terbit lagi Cuma bintang kian hilang menjelang pagi Bukannya pelangi tak akan muncul lagi Cuma pelangi semakin lebur di panah mentari Bukannya embun tak akan membasah lagi Cuma embun berderai pada rumput yang meraja di bumi Bintang yang menerangi malam Menjadi suluh musafir di jalanan Pelangi yang menyapa awan Menjadi hiasan dunia yang menawan Embun yang menyegarkan alam Menjadi bayangan siang yang nyaman Apakah bintang hanyalah untuk panduan semata? Apakah pelangi hanyalah untuk citra dunia? Apakah embun hanyalah untuk melukut seketika? Mari kita jejaki asal dunia… Kerana dunia itu tidaklah fana… Namun ia tetap pelan agung Maha Pencipta Pentas cerita yang Dia bina Ada bintang yang menjadi pencahayaannya Ada pelangi yang menjadi penataraannya Ada embun yang menjadi penghawaannya Dan sesungguhnya… Pentas dunia itu tidak pernah berubah Malah bintang, pelangi dan embun berpisah tiada Telah diriwayat, telah dihikayat Memberi nikmat se...

Can you imagine how life is going to be, if there is no standard and accepted forms of communication? The immediate situation that I can visualize is the chaotic event of ordinary life. People will eventually see what others are doing are for their mutual benefit. Everything seems to be for individual interest only. Most of the time people engage in surface acting behavior and there is a tendency of social loafing in group activities. In short, people actually don’t care on good interpersonal communication. In addition to that, there is an absence of the quality of work life found in any organization. Off course, nobody wants this scenario to happen in his or her life. In order to improve the quality of work life, we need to understand and establish proper communication process. The communication process involves steps between a source and a receiver that result in the transference and understanding of meaning. The sender initiates message by encoding it through the right channel. Th...