10 PAGES TOTAL AND 20 REFERENCES
You will identify a leader you admire and research her or his biography and recent successes. Your research should include an article in which the leader is interviewed, question/answer format.
You will also research the leader’s organization or company for its mission and recent accomplishments so that you can understand the context or setting for your leader’s success.
Then you will write a longer-form essay.
Getting Started:
1. Make a list of leaders you admire. Consider exploring the CEOs of Xerox, Nissan, Yahoo, General Motors, Northrup Grumann, Costco, or Pepsicoor a successful leader you know. This leader maybe a manager where you work.
Finding an interview with your leader: Try
• UMUC Library and these search terms: “Interviews with CEOs”
• Adam Bryant’s Weekly Corner Office Column in the New York Times: http://projects.nytimes.com/corner-office
• Google the leader’s name and the term “interview”
2.Select your leader.
3. Identify the leader’s company or organization and research its mission, goals and recent activities. Use company or organization websites. Review articles or media stories about the company. Make notes.
To write this essay, review theseNorthouse chapters
• Chapter 7 on Path-Goal Approach to Leading
• Chapter 10 on Servant Leadership
• Chapter 11 on Authentic Leadership
In addition to a careful review of Northouse Chapter 7, choose either Servant Leadership (Chapter 10) or Authentic Leadership (Chapter 11) to use as important theory for analysis of your leader’s successes. If, for whatever reason, you do not believe that these Northouse Chapters help you examine your leader effectively, then search the Table of Contents of Northouse to find a 2nd model (chapter) you want to use. You are to use two (2) models of leadership, with one model being the Path-Goal Theory, for your essay analysis.
Five (5) Essay Topics:Plan for each of these topics to be sections within your essay. Each topic should have a heading to introduce it.
1. Summarize the leader’s early life and education.(1 Full page)
Then write new paragraph (s) answering this question: What are two (2) events earlier in life, which may have set the stage for his or her leadership success, based on your research/analysis?Your interview article should be helpful to writing this section (1 FULL PAGE)
TOTAL: 2 PAGES
2. Qualities of leadership that seem to appear more recently in your leader’s career path.(1 Full page).
THEN Write a section that considers promotions, areas of new responsibility, evidence of trust by those around him or her, expressed comments from your leader about his or her attitude towards others, including respect. (HALF PAGE)
TOTAL: 1.5 PAGES
3. Your leader’s current organization(1 Full page). Pay attention to its mission and if published on a website, identify the corporate values of the organization. Emphasize recent events in the organization that required leadership.
THEN In using new paragraph (s) use your judgment about the leader’s strengths to describe or explain the reasons the leader is a good fit for the organization at this time (HALF PAGE)
TOTAL: 1.5 PAGES
4. Analysis Based on Path-Goal Theory(1 Full page) (Northouse, 2013, chapter 7. Explain the primary factors which make up this theory.
Compare your leader’s approach to path-goal theory. What factors of his or her leadership seem to align or fit to this theory? What factors seem to be different than what’s emphasized in Path Goal? In your writing use examples from leader research. (1 FULL PAGE)
TOTAL: 2 PAGES
5. Analysis of Leader Using another Leader Theory(1 Full page): Review the 2nd theory you researched (either Servant Leadership, Chapter 10; or Authentic Leadership, Chapter 11,or another model of leadership from Northouse) and explain the primary factors which make up this theory. (1 paragraph)
Compare your leader’s approach to the 2ndmodel of leadership from Northouse (selected by you). What factors of his or her leadership seem to align or fit to this model theory? What factors seem to be different than what’s emphasized in this model? (1 FULL PAGE)
TOTAL: 2 PAGES
Next Steps: Complete and Edit Your Longer-form Essay
• Write your conclusion.(HALF PAGE)
• Write your introduction. Include a purpose or thesis statement. Insert the introduction into the beginning of the document.(HALF PAGE)
Evaluation Factors (Rubric)
A. Is there a cover page, with student’s name, assignment title, and Turnitin Score?
B. YES NO
C. Is there an Introduction section that includes a purpose or thesis statement?
D. YES NO
E. Are there five analysis sections, with a heading for each to identify/showcase the analytical thinking within that section?
• Summary of Leader’s Early Life and Education
• Qualities of Leadership
• Leader’s Current Organization and Reasons His/Her Leadership is Successful
• Leader’s Qualities Compared to Path-Goal Theory
• Leader’s Qualities Compared to a 2nd Theory
YES NO
F. Is there a Conclusion section? YES NO
G. Are in-text cites used effectively within analysis sections? YES NO
H. Is there a reference list? YES NO
I. Are paragraphs within sections organized/written so that there is one idea per paragraph? YES NO
J. Is the main idea of each paragraph identified in the 1st sentence? YES NO
K. Does the overall organization of the paper appear to be clear and easily understood? YES NO
L. Does the analysis go beyond what is requested to add new ideas or deeper insight? YES NO
Is the grammar correct? (Punctuation, word use, complete sentences, verb tense, pronoun antecedents clear) YES NO
Is the spelling correct? YES NO
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