These studies also found that nurturing-task (benevolent-authoritative) leaders to be more effective in achieving the Organizational task objectives (Sinha, 1980; Hassan, 1985; Ansari, 1986; Pandey & Singh, 1987).
NATO spends much time these days on political tasks: nurturing the hoped-for new links with Russia, forging closer ties to neighbouring regions, and developing "partnership for peace", which enables those outside the alliance to work closely with it.
For example, Jane Jacobs' thesis of the "Guardian Ethic" and its contrast to the "Trader Ethic" sought to explain the undervaluing of guardianship activity, including the child-protecting, nurturing, and healing tasks that were traditionally assigned to women.
Those tactics, if used at all and carried out successfully, could also undermine the larger task of nurturing a new Iraqi leadership sympathetic to American and allied goals.
Legalising drugs would help too, since drug dollars empower gangsters and give them something to fight over.The task of nurturing minds begins in the womb, with better prenatal health care.
Conversations with people in this shadowy world suggest that America's spies, nurtured on cold-war tasks like monitoring the Soviet Army, are struggling to adapt to newer threats like Al Qaeda.
And in the 1980s and '90s, the central task was nurturing the seeds of democracy — the work for which former President Kim Dae-jung, a champion of popular government and human rights, is still admired despite his questionable policy of giving North Korea unconditional aid, including hundreds of millions of dollars in cash.
On the eve of battle he had pushed aside the fears of such eminent figures as Faldo and former Ryder Cup captain, and double major winner, Tony Jacklin that he was drifting too far away from the task of nurturing his talent.
Nora Senior, president of the British Chambers of Commerce, said there was no need for "overbearing government regulation" and called on business to "step up to the task of nurturing the pipeline of women at middle management level on to executive teams".
"Regulating the Internet has become a fundamental task in nurturing the development of the Internet in China," said Xinhua News, the government news agency that functions as an official mouthpiece.
