Homework: Leadership Practices within Organization
Length: 14 Pages
1) Describe an existing organization with which you have had personal experience and its objective(s).
a) Describe three leadership practices of the current leader, other than yourself, in the existing organization.
Note: Leadership practices are routine actions, behaviors, functions, and responsibilities that the current leader performs.
b) Discuss how the current leader has affected organizational culture.
Note: You may represent any level of the chosen organization (e.g., team, department, division, whole) and the respective current leader in your description.
2) Conduct a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis evaluating the chosen organization by doing the following:
a) Evaluate two of the organization's current strengths.
b) Evaluate two of the organization's current weaknesses.
c) Evaluate two of the organization's current unmet opportunities.
d) Evaluate two of the organization's current unresolved threats.
3) Conduct a leadership evaluation of the current leader discussed in part A1, using one of the scholarly leadership theories below by doing the following:
o transactional leadership
o situational leadership
o participative leadership
o servant leadership
o behavioral leadership
o trait theory of leadership
a) Evaluate three strengths of the current leader, using the chosen scholarly leadership theory, including how each strength relates to the theory. Support the evaluation of the leader's strengths with at least one scholarly source.
b) Evaluate three weaknesses of the current leader, using the chosen scholarly leadership theory, including how each weakness relates to the theory. Support the evaluation of the leader's weaknesses with at least one scholarly source.
c) Recommend three actionable items to improve the effectiveness of the current leader, including how each actionable item relates to the chosen scholarly leadership theory. Support the recommendations of actionable items with at least one scholarly source.
4) Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
5) Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.