Essay1
Leadership Influence
For the next section in your research paper, draft a 525-word essay to examine your selected leader's power and influence by addressing both of the following areas:
1. Power: Which types of power does this leader leverage: legitimate, reward, coercive, expert, information, and/or connection power? Use at least one source with an example from the library to support your rationale.
2. Politics, Networking, and Negotiation: How does this leader use politics, networking, or negotiation to influence people? Use at least one source with an example from the library to support your rationale.
Remember to apply APA style to the essay, add it to the assignment you completed in Unit IV, save all of your work in one document.
Essay 2
Leader-Follower Relationships
The next contribution to the research paper focuses on the leader's relationships with his or her team. In a 525-word essay, examine the relationships your selected leader has with his or her followers. Describe their goals and values, and discuss their group dynamics. Be sure to include specific examples for how your selected leader and his or her followers communicate and interact with each other. Do the followers influence the leader, and if so, how? Lastly, analyze the leader's behaviors within the group dynamics to identify if the behaviors lead to any clues about the leader's potential mental models as he or she interacted with the group. Explain.
Use at least one source with an example from the library to support your rationale.
Remember to apply APA style to the essay, add it to the assignment you completed in Unit V, save all of your work in one document.
Essay 2
Integrative Leadership Style
The Unit VII Essay is another opportunity to contribute to the course research paper. In a 525-word essay, examine your selected leader in relation to charismatic, servant, and transformational leadership. Respond to all of the following in your essay:
1. Charismatic Leadership: Discuss whether this leader demonstrates charisma according to Weber's approach. Use at least one source with an example from the library to support your rationale. If this leader does not demonstrate charisma, use research to explain how he or she became a famous leader despite lacking charisma. Include the following in your discussion:
• What is the locus of his or her charismatic leadership?
• Which values does this leader demonstrate?
• What drives this leader?
2. Servant Leadership: Discuss whether this leader demonstrates servant leadership. Use at least one source with an example from the library to support your rationale; you may choose to use the Udani and Lorenzo-Molo (2013) article that was required for this unit. If this leader does not demonstrate servant leadership, use research to explain how he or she became a famous leader while lacking servant leadership. Include the following in your discussion:
• What is the locus of his or her charismatic leadership?
• Which values does this leader demonstrate?
• What drives this leader?
3. Transformational Leadership: Is this leader considered a transformational leader? Is this leader known for contributing to either major changes or innovations that occurred in an organization, industry, nation, or the world? How did these major changes or innovations affect other people's lives? How did these changes impact culture on an organizational, societal, or global level? Use at least one source with an example from the library to support your rationale.
You must Apply APA style to the essay, add it to the assignment you completed .
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Conclusion
This is the final contribution to the course research paper, and it allows you to prepare concluding thoughts about your selected leader's leadership style as well as the impact of his or her leadership, particularly as it relates to leading change and/or innovation. In 250 words, write a summary for your paper by summarizing this leader's approach to leadership, as well as the impact of his or her leadership.
Also, proofread your entire research paper as a whole. Consider the feedback provided by your professor, and make any appropriate changes or additions to the paper. Proofread your paper and make any changes before submitting your final paper. Add the summary to all of the components of the course research paper (i.e., essays from Units I through VII)