This research examines the relationship between organizational financial performance and the levels of charisma and optimism revealed in the annual report. Hypotheses were developed based on the meta-theory of the organization as a social actor and previous empirical results regarding the relationship between organizational financial performance and the constructs of charisma and optimism. Base...

Augustine was suspicious of charismatics‘ claims to superior righteousness, which supposedly authorized them to relay truths about creation and redemption. What follows finds the origins of that suspicion in his disenchantment with celebrities on whom Manichees relied, specialists whose impeccable behavior and intellectual virtuosity were taken as signs that they possessed insight into the mean...

In a textbook example of an improper subgroup analysis (1) (one defined by events subsequent to randomization, in this case fabricating new “CAPRIE [Clopidogrel Versus Aspirin in Patients at Risk of Ischemic Events]-like” inclusion criteria), Bhatt et al. (2) present data suggesting that persons with a prior history of stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), or peripheral vascular disease (PVD) may...

This study was a meta-analysis of the relationship between personality and ratings of transformational and transactional leadership behaviors. Using the 5-factor model of personality as an organizing framework, the authors accumulated 384 correlations from 26 independent studies. Personality traits were related to 3 dimensions of transformational leadership--idealized influence-inspirational mo...

Charisma Cam is a software for real-time behavioral analysis, based on Automatic Movie Analysis (AMA). It extracts information from human body language, using the Motion Energy Detection (MED) approach. It detects changes in shapes, rather than trying to build complex mathematical models of individual body movements. This allows for quantitative assessment of movement qualities independently of...

Leadership perception is based on (a) a recognition-based process that involves categorization of leaders characteristics into relevant stereotypes; and (b) an inference-based process that involves making attributions for leaders characteristics based on outcomes of salient events (Lord & Maher, 1993). The present study examined the interactive effects of these two alternative processes of lead...

in this paper, the writers have collected max weber's views on the worldly approach of islam from his book sociology of religion and presented as a coherent discussion. the writers have then discussed the arguments weber has put forward to prove his point and criticized weber's theory and his personality as a critic. as far as his theory is concerned, the writers have tried to provide answers t...