ISSUES IN LEADERSHIP-THEORY & PRACTICE

Issues in Leadership-Theory & Practice

Table of Contents

Executive Summary3

Methodology3

Research Design4

Literature Search4

Introduction5

Literature review5

Results7

Discussion7

Conclusion8

Recommendations9

References11

Appendix13

Executive Summary

The increasing attention paid to the phenomenon of Corporate Social Responsibility at world and increased awareness of enterprises on their social role, has led many economic actors to adopt CSR as a tool for responding to various social pressures, environmental and economic effects from the various stakeholder (stakeholders) involved in multiple levels (local, national and supra-national). To this, Eva Sage-Gavin adds the commitment level to International development tools / programs that can foster the spread of such practices under the different business contexts. Here, makes explicit reference to the guiding principles in Gap Inc., where Eva Sage-Gavin suggests the need to take into account the contexts of social, economic and institutional in which companies operate, aligning their interests with those of other speakers, directly or indirectly related to the company. This report includes experiences about how HR professionals can help shape a company's culture to include values such as responsibility, giving back, fairness and equity. Of course, being in position of Eva Sage-Gavin, Executive Vice President at Gap Inc. where one could have the privilege of helping guide the social responsibility and skills-based volunteering programs to prove him or herself a true leader.

Methodology

The methodology, which has been, chosen for this research design have evolved over the past few years as a useful tool for investigating trends and situations in many scientific disciplines, especially social science, psychology, and management. This method of study is especially useful for trying to test real world situations. For instance, in this research leadership issues is the main theme and this methodology will help in giving a proper result and conclusion, this research usually requires an interview, which helps in achieving the accurate and authentic results. It comprises of an interview and then analyzing the situation that occurred as an issue in the workplace. The results are based on the answers of the leader. Basically, this will give a deeper insight in to the study of a particular situation rather than a sweeping statistical survey. It is a method used to narrow down an extremely broad field of research into one easily reachable topic.

Research Design

The research is based on secondary data collection and as well as interview taken face to face directly. The data is extracted from various journals, articles, books and different websites of the company. Secondary research describes information gathered through literature, publications, broadcast media, and other nonhuman sources.

Literature Search

The criteria of selection for the literature were relevance to the research topic and the year of publication. Both public and private libraries, as well as online libraries, were visited to access the data. Some of the online databases that were accessed are ebsco, questia, emerald, and phoenix.

Introduction

This study investigate the phenomenon within the context of Eva Sage-Gavin's Gap Inc.'s, in the light of the specificities that characterize the economic, national production in which the population of companies represents 99.9% of the population total, occupying 81, 3% of the ...