Importance of Listening in the Workplace
We hear so many sounds in our everyday lives, but how much do we Listen?
Although both speaking and listening need particular skills to be good at, there are some guidelines and procedures for being a good listener, but not as many as for being a good speaker. People usually don't care about the difference between listening and hearing. Listening is the art of understanding what is in the speaker's mind and simultaneously analyzing, deducing, and learning it. So it would show how vital listening ...
What can threaten an organization?
An organization can face some threats that may cause many problems for leaders and employees in the process of leadership. Such issues affect both the productivity and the fame of an organization.
Therefore, a company needs to recognize the common threats to prevent them from occurring.
ManagementStudyGuide.com provides many valuable contents relating to management topics for students and corporate workforces.
One of its articles is about Common Threats to an Organization ...
Why are innovation activities important in organizational growth?
The minimum requirements for innovation are to create a new or fully improved product, process, marketing method, or organizational method for business use. A common feature of all innovations is that they must be implemented and implemented roundly.
The nature of innovative activities varies greatly from sector to sector and even from one organizational unit to another. Some units are involved with innovative projects such as designing and producing a new product, and in contrast, some other units ...
Social Responsibility and Organizations
Today, in developed and industrialized countries, social and moral responsibility is highly valued, and manufacturing and industrial organizations are required to fully comply with ethical principles.The discussion of social responsibility has a long history and tangible dates back to the time of Adam Smith in the late 18th century. He addressed the issue of promoting public welfare and believed that the efforts of competing entrepreneurs would naturally be aimed at protecting the public interest. ...
To lead change: An essential leadership capability
The world is changing rapidly. When competition becomes global, the environment gets uncertain. Globalization is one important change affecting the environment of all corporations.
Globalization here means developing new attitudes about relations with people in other countries and paying attention to the extent, form, and complexity of relationships among corporations throughout the world.
To prepare for confronting this uncertain environment and the constant changes, leaders are required. Evidently, ...
Why leaders perform a crucial role in changing organizational values
Leaders and senior managers shape the business environment. Their insights, beliefs, and attitudes directly affect the direction of the organization. A leader's viewpoints and preferences help create a permanent guideline for employees that points to the appropriate performance measures. Such a guideline is a framework that tells employees how to fulfill organizational goals.
In a prosperous organization, leaders are the symbol of the thoughts, insights, and values they have set for the employees. ...
Performance assessment as criteria for Promotion of Employees
One of the critical decisions within the organization is to decide about promoting people. This decision-making process needs basic requirements for moving up in the organization. This requirement expression should include specific tips and guidelines for promotion. It is an established framework that suggests the strengths and the weaknesses. If employees know what the promotion framework shows, they will be effectively aligned with the promotion process.
One of the most practical tools that the ...
Components of leadership
Leaders illustrate the image of the future. This image shows the organizational path and serves as a tool for driving success in the organizations. Leaders inspire and motivate the employees by designing the organization's practices. Preparing a clear vision for the organization is one of the most crucial activities for leaders. This vision should include and identify the building blocks of success.Inculcating values such as high quality, confidence, fairness, loyalty, and responsibility toward customers ...
Organizational culture; A crucial but neglected aspect of change
Organizational culture is associated with several factors. At the same time, it is supposed to be the driver of change in today's competitive business environment. Organizations need to have a supportive culture that provides the condition to work in a rapidly changing world.
A good organizational culture paves the way for change. Culture is the base for strategic planning that facilitates and enables organizational change. Changing the organizational culture and building a new culture takes time. ...
Tips on rules of publishing articles in journals
If you take a look at previous posts you will find many useful guidelines on paper publishing in academic journals such as:
What is the BEST title for your research paper?
Now it’s time to focus on the rules that are required for an article to be published:
1- collection and publication of the conclusions: throughout the process of research, the researchers must collect and publish all the findings of the research and the methods used to obtain them clearly, in a transparent manner, ...
Employee participation in decision-making
Decision-making is a core concept in management. It is crucial in policymaking, defining the objectives, making choices, and their implementation. Managers always face the task of decision-making, and the organization's success depends on the quality of decision-making.
The process of decision-making consists of several steps, including determining key issues that need resolution, searching for solutions, selecting criteria for the evaluation of the solutions, and finally selecting one of the solutions. ...
What is the BEST title for your research paper?
Choosing a good and attractive title is one of the most difficult parts of writing a paper. However, writing a good abstract and choosing a suitable journal is also important.
Here, we do not want to teach you how to choose a research topic, but we intend to explain how to choose a suitable title once you finish writing a research paper and you are ready for submission.
Research books primarily provide detailed information about choosing a good title for your research work. Here, we provide applicable ...
On paraphrasing
Sometimes authors whose articles have been rejected because of plagiarism claim that they had no knowledge about these similarities and have happened accidentally. Hence it is recommended that all the articles and research get paraphrased before submission. Because it is possible that the authors inadvertently use a sentence or text mentioned in one of the many thousands of journals existing. Other sources used in all review and research articles should be paraphrased. This is not limited to articles; ...
United Nations SDG Publishers Compact
We are pleased to announce that Canadian Institute for Knowledge Development is now a member of the United Nations SDG Publishers Compact. CIKD has a commitment to ensure sustainability and a healthier planet by most relevant publications aligned to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
To this end, IJOL cordially invites publications on organizational leadership issues, linking into the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
Organizational Learning Paves The Way Toward Future!
In the fast-paced environment of the business, continuous learning plays a vital role in business growth. It increases the potential for adaption to changing requirements and needs. Technology creates new types of jobs. Emerging jobs are rapidly replacing old careers. Organizations should facilitate faster learning for their employees and help them get equipped with the new skills and capabilities that speed up the adaption process. Learning opportunities help employees advance ...
Unexpected challenges of the recent pandemic! It is time for revision
The most notable impacts of the recent pandemic brought up the potential challenges of the organizational issues to the front line. How to make the organization resilient, how to be agile, how to create value, how to optimize costs, how to help employees adopt digitalization, how to experience a strong surge, and how to support human resources are among the various important questions and challenges that senior managers and strategies have to answer.
These issues need both day-to-day management ...
Helping employees feel a sense of purpose at work
Leaders should help employees find and define sources of purpose. These sources should illustrate that employees' engagement and commitment truly matter.
Leaders also need to help employees to find out more about the real meaning of their work. Employees need to be connected effectively to the defined purposes. This connection will give them an incentive to be more engaged in their work.
If the employees believe that their work positively impacts society, customers, the workplace, and even their ...
How to Respond to Reviewers’ Comments
Responding to comments by reviewers is very important and an opportunity to convince the reviewers and the editors.When sending your manuscript for publication to a journal, it will be reviewed, and the reviewers might ask the author to revise some parts or have questions about the content. If you need to know how to respond to the reviewers, read the following:
- When the paper is sent back to be revised, the author will be asked to revise it and respond to the reviewers in an attached file and ...
Tips for choosing the right journal for paper publishing
1. One of the most important features of publishing a paper is choosing and finding the journals that are best suited to the paper's subject area. Journals usually cover topics around narrow fields. So to find the most relevant journal, it is important to focus attention on the research areas that each journal covers.
2. Another important feature for suitability is the journal's level. The journal's level should ...
Leadership Development Programs will Shape a significant Part of the Future of Professional Education
There are a series of unprecedented challenges that businesses face today. Technological progress, a more complex marketplace with harsh competition, and consumers' different expectations have created a highly uncertain environment in which everything is different than before.
To deal with these challenges, outlining, recognizing, and addressing the signs that indicate the rapid change of the business environment is crucial. But it is vital to answer the question that who is responsible ...
Why was the pandemic not so bad for the leaders? What kind of organizational leadership can be highly effective in the time of the Pandemic?
Covid 19 posed many disastrous challenges to the societies. One of the most critical aspects of this challenge has been economic disruption. It shrunk the global economy and threatened economic growth and prosperity both at the government and firm levels. Many companies and firms were forced to take the first step themselves long before receiving government-backed grants and bail-out. The new uncertain and fragile situations burden mostly leaders and managers. Their role on the front lines ...
Call for papers for Special Issue: International Journal of Organizational Leadership
Organization of companies and public and private administrations: Ethics, management, accountability, leadership, accounting. A multidisciplinary approach
International Journal of Organizational Leadership calls for submissions to a special issue with the theme “Organization of companies and public and private administrations: ethics, management, accountability, leadership, accounting. A multidisciplinary approach”. The special issue will cover all aspects of private ...
Journal Review: International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM)
International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) aims to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing and testing elements of interactive mobile technologies.
CIKD’s Publication Opportunity
Canadian Institute for Knowledge Development (CIKD), is an international, multi-disciplinary research, publishing, consulting and training institute and one of the most expert institutions ...
Journal Review: Quality-Access to Success
Quality - Access to Success stands out as the most important scientific Romanian journal in the quality assurance field, and it is the only journal with a synergistic approach to all management systems.
Canadian Institute for Knowledge Development (CIKD), is an international, multi-disciplinary research, publishing, consulting and training institute and one of the most expert institutions of its kind committed to organizing and developing educational events and conferences in different ...
Verb Tense Use in Academic Papers
When you decide to write for academic journals, you face a highly competitive and challenging task since you should consider all rules and principles to write a perfect paper that will be immune to rejection.
One of the concerns of the authors of research manuscripts is choosing the correct verb tense in an article.
In many scholarly journals, members of the editorial board always consider correct verb tense use as an important aspect of academic writing.
Using different verb tenses varies with ...
Journal Review: Applied Marketing Analytics
Canadian Institute for Knowledge Development (CIKD), is an international, multi-disciplinary research, publishing, consulting and training institute and one of the most expert institutions of its kind committed to organizing and developing educational events and conferences in different fields.
One of its leading conferences is the 4th international conference on new directions in business, management, finance and economics (ICNDBM).
A selection of accepted full papers at the conference ...
Punctuation Marks; A Writer's Road Signs!
In academic writing, punctuation act as a guide to help readers get through the ideas expressed in sentences, just like road signs for drivers to be provided with valuable information.
Learning punctuation is as necessary for readers as road signs are for drivers!
Writers use different types of punctuation marks, to guide the reader to clearly understand the message and tell them when to slow down, speed up, pause and emphasize certain words. This is equivalent to ...
Journal Review: Global Business and Organizational Excellence
Canadian Institute for Knowledge Development (CIKD), is an international, multi-disciplinary research, publishing, consulting and training institute and one of the most expert institutions of its kind committed to organizing and developing educational events and conferences in different fields.
One of its leading conferences, which is going to be held on February 12, in Turkey, is the 4th international conference on new directions in business, management, finance and economics (ICNDBM).
A ...
Voice Selection in Academic Writing: Active or Passive?
Voice selection in academic writing, in the first place, depends on the context and content of your sentences and the section of your paper you are writing.
Traditionally, especially in the twentieth century, the passive voice was used in scientific writing, but in recent times, there has been a shift from this trend, with journals and editors increasingly showing a preference for the active voice.
Grammatical Voice
Verbs in English grammar possess five features: voice, number, mood, ...
10 Tips to Write Catchy Titles for a Research Paper
The title is in fact the first thing each reader will see in your transcript and your task is to make it interesting to avoid reactions like “Oh God, this will be boring.”
In our previous blog post, “Structure of an ISI paper”, we discussed different sections of a scientific paper, including title or headline.
A title is the first thing that attracts others to read your paper. Since it is the first thing that a journal editor or a reader sees, the title should be scientifically ...
Professor Mary Jo Hatch is joined to the editorial board of IJOL
It is our immense pleasure to announce that Professor Mary Jo Hatch is joined to the editorial board of International Journal of Organizational Leadership and New World, New Business: A JOURNAL OF IMAGINATIVE BUSINESS IDEAS as Honorary Editorial Member. Undoubtedly, her presence in the editorial boards will enhance the quality of the journals and expand its readership. We are utmost thankful for her contribution.
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of Thomson Reuters indexed IJOL
It is our immense pleasure to announce that the International Journal of Organizational Leadership (IJOL) has been accepted for coverage in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters is launching (ESCI) which is to extend the universe of publications in Web of Science to include high-quality, peer-reviewed journals. Coverage will begin with journal content published in 2015. IJOL's content in ESCI is now under consideration by Thomson Reuters ...