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Managerial Leadership and Motivation in an International Context

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Effective managers lead and motivate their followers to perform their jobs successfully. The ability of a manager to lead and motivate affects his/her ability to manage. Organizational performance is based on the collective contribution of all members. Organizations could suffer without an effective leader to increase and combine these contributions. To attain an organization’s goals, managers must be able to guide and direct its members to perform to the best of their abilities.

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    Kamal Fatehi

  2. Management & Marketing Department, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, USA

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Fatehi, K., Choi, J. (2019). Managerial Leadership and Motivation in an International Context. In: International Business Management. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96622-9_5

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