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A good leader might be the difference between success and failure in the contemporary ever changing business environment. Leadership is crucial to employee motivation, employee satisfaction, productivity and overall business performance. It includes a variety of elements and success techniques, although personal characteristics should not be underestimated. A complex connection of interpersonal relations and communications is created in any leader-follower situation. Although several theoretical approaches have be...

In recent times volunteering became more diverse. Its various types and manifestations can increasingly be reflected in different spheres of modern society’s life. The importance of the study of child volunteering is determined by the social meaning of this activity and its educational potential. The study of children and adolescent volunteering is also useful in the context of understanding volunteerism as a broad social phenomenon. The purpose of the article is to examine the child-teen volunteering as local pra...

In the face of increasing complexity, variability, and unpredictability of conditions in which modern organizations function, there is a need for new ways of conceptualizing leadership. A discussion arises, concerning the question whether leadership is focused on a single leader or distributed across a number of individuals, whether leadership is best understood as a specialized role or rather as a shared influence process, whether it is a deliberate or rather an emergent phenomenon. This article is part of this d...

The article focuses on the concept of distributed leadership (DL) in the context of growing uncertainty of organizational environment. The article discusses the study, carried out in 212 organizations - different due to the industry, the size, and form of ownership. The purpose of the study was to determine the relation between organization's environment uncertainty and the degree of leadership distribution. Research hypothesis regarding the relation between the DL and environmental uncertainty was formulated and ...

Mindfulness has been successfully practiced for over 2,500 years with the goal to “quiet the mind’s constant chattering: thoughts, anxieties, and regrets” [14]. Organizational mindfulness refers to a combination of observation of existing expectations and willingness to invent new expectations, and identification of new possible dimensions with aim to improve foresight and current functioning of the organization, in addition to swiftly act in response to emerging threats [15]. According to Jacqueline Carte [3], mi...