For many years, leadership was viewed as a combination of personality traits, such as self-confidence, empathy, intelligence, dependability, and personal characteristics. ... The style that is most effective depends on the interaction among the employees, the work situation, and the manager's personality. ... Out of fifty people Asch tested, about 33 percent gave in to the group about half the time and gave what they knew to be wrong answers. ...

• Word Count: 2173
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

When you start mixing politics and philosophy, you get a strange mixture of theories that work in theory itself but have never been tested in practice. ... Plato wanted to cure the afflictions of both human society and human personality. ... Aristotle believes that Plato is underestimating the qualitative change in human character and personality that would have to take place in order to achieve his Utopia. ...

• Word Count: 1309
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

At the opening of the Lord of the Flies, a plane, transporting a group of boys from England is attacked and crashes in the jungle. Two boys, Ralph and Piggy, meet and make their way to the beach. Upon their arrival, they discover a conch shell near the water. Using the shell as a trumpet, Ralph summons the remainder of the boys to an assembly. A large number of boys, varying in age, emerged from the jungle, accompanied by Jack Merridew and his choir, marching in military formation. ...

• Word Count: 7266
• Approx Pages: 29
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School