Author: Ronald C. JonesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Examining Leadership Styles and Financial Performance within Rural Electric Cooperatives
Author: Ronald C. JonesLeadership and Organizational Outcomes
Author: Engin KaradağPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319149083
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This book focuses on the effect of leadership on organizational outcomes and summarizes the current research findings in the field. It addresses the need for inclusive and interpretive studies in the field in order to interpret leadership literature and suggest new pathways for further studies. Appropriately, a meta-analysis approach is used by the contributors to show the big picture to the researchers by analyzing and combining the findings from different independent studies. In particular, the editors compile various studies examining the relationship between the leadership and thirteen organizational outcomes separately. The philosophy behind this book is to direct future research and practices rather than addressing the limits of current studies.
Infrastructure and Agency
Author: Abby Elaine SpinakPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
How do cooperative businesses influence economic and community development in practice? Recent calls for a "new economy" argue that co-ops and other kinds of distributed ownership should be capable of transforming neoliberal market relations into place-based, community-centered, and nonextractive modes of production and exchange. In direct contrast to these hopes about cooperatives, my dissertation on electric cooperatives in the United States shows that there can be little, if any, contradiction between community ownership and neoliberal market-based business practices. Therefore, the history of electric co-ops suggests that co-op advocates should exercise caution in their enthusiasm. My dissertation is a combined historical and qualitative study of a nation-wide network of electric cooperatives that have existed in the United States for nearly 80 years. Through historical research on the conception, funding, and implementation of these cooperatives, I explore how they were designed originally in service of rural industrial development and national growth as a solution to crisis during the precarious years of the Great Depression. Questioning how this orientation restricted these co-ops' abilities to serve as community-focused institutions, I argue that the 1930s was a tipping point in American history when federal investment in rural electrification could have constructed a vast network of local democratic institutions, but didn't. However, in the interest of understanding how electric co-ops can yet be a transformative force for communities, I also conducted case studies of three co-ops where members recently pushed for changes in leadership and agenda. In my case study research, I examine how electric co-ops can in fact be a powerful venue for local democracy and community transformation; for this potential to be realized, though, co-op members must re-envision the co-op not as a single-issue business, but as a community institution in a broader political struggle. In studying these movements, my dissertation highlights the importance of focusing on the quality of democratic practice in co-ops, and ultimately asks whether and under what conditions the electric co-op model is capable of becoming a transformative economic influence.
Work Engagement
Author: Arnold B. BakkerPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1136980881
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This book provides the most thorough view available on this new and intriguing dimension of workplace psychology, which is the basis of fulfilling, productive work. The book begins by defining work engagement, which has been described as ‘an opposite to burnout,’ following its development into a more complex concept with far reaching implications for work-life. The chapters discuss the sources of work engagement, emphasizing the importance of leadership, organizational structures, and human resource management as factors that may operate to either enhance or inhibit employee’s experience of work. The book considers the implications of work engagement for both the individual employee and the organization as a whole. To address readers’ practical questions, the book provides in-depth coverage of interventions that can enhance employees’ work engagement and improve management techniques. Based upon the most up-to-date research by the foremost experts in the world, this volume brings together the best knowledge available on work engagement, and will be of great use to academic researchers, upper level students of work and organizational psychology as well as management consultants.
Examining the Relationship Between Strategic Leadership, Leadership Styles and Knowledge Sharing in the Electric Power Sector in Jordan
Author: Mohammad Bany EssaThe Influence of Performance Management on Profitability and Employee Turnover of Rural Electric Cooperatives
Author: Ray E. RhashSustainable Leadership
Author: Gayle C. AveryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415891388
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Sustainable Leadership centers on a powerful metaphor of honeybee and locust behaviors, which illustrate two leadership philosophies with very different outcomes for a business and its viability. This engaging, insightful book provides evidence and a rationale for building a business case to change towards more sustainable practices.
Guides for Electric Cooperative Development and Rural Electrification
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615292922
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Languages : en
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Book Description
This series of modules, collectively known as the NRECA International Technical Assistance Guides (TAGs), is the result of an effort to document NRECA International%u2019s vast rural electrification and electric cooperative development experience. The modules have been prepared with the purpose of serving as practical guides for practitioners, as well as educational material for those who wish to learn more about specific topics within the field of rural electrification and the electric cooperative model. The overall objective of these modules is to improve rural electrification project design, implementation, construction, and system operation, ultimately leading to a higher quality and more reliable electric service for those consumers involved.
Author: Regina Beamon
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