Determinants of Leadership and Team Performance

This dissertation is an exploratory research study of the determinants of Leadership and Team Performance. The study attempts to uncover what impact leadership has upon effective team performance in an organisation. In addition to that, it describes leadership theory together with the theory of team formation, followed by the link between leadership and team performance as it pertains to the success of the organisation.

The purpose of this research is to determine how a good leadership within a team can have an influence on its effective performance.

Read more...

Determinants of Bank Performance

There is an huge amount of literature is available that seeks to identify the determinants of bank performance. Where some studies focus on the understanding of bank profitability in a particular country, others focus their analysis on a panel of countries. In the literature, bank profitability, usually measured by the return on assets (ROA) and/or the return on equity (ROE), is typically expressed as a function of internal and external determinants. Internal determinants are causes that are mainly influenced by a bank’s management decisions and policy objectives. Such profitability determinants are the level of liquidity, credit risk, capital adequacy, operating expenses management and bank size. On the other side, the external determinants, macroeconomic, are variables that reflect the economic environment where the credit institution operates.

Read more...