Paper 1 : Prominent Leaders
Use the Ashford Library to research a prominent leader, living or deceased, who you admire.
Explain whether the leader's style is transactional or transformational. What type of leadership characteristics does the leader demonstrate?
What aspects of servant leadership does the leader exhibit? Provide relevant examples to support your claims.
The paper should be three to four pages in length (excluding title and reference pages). At least two scholarly references (a minimum of one being from the Ashford Library) plus the course textbook must be utilized in the research.
The paper should also reflect proper APA format and style and integrate resources with in-text citations to support the writing. Vocabulary and course content should be integrated throughout the paper.
Paper 2 : Action Research Project
You have been hired as a consultant (to your current organization, previous organization, or a fictional organization).
Describe and analyze a human resource/organizational problem(s) and recommend an organizational development strategy (ies). Provide a rationale as to why you think this approach will help.
This will require a practitioner analysis of the organizational problem of interest and an academic literature review of similar organizational problems and organizational development strategy (ies) that you believe will be most beneficial in solving the problem. Also, provide an evaluation plan for the proposed intervention(s).
The plan should have the following headings:
Problem Identification
Description of the organization
Context of the problem:
How do you know it's a problem?
Specifically what is the problem (select from list below)?
Turnover
Job Satisfaction
Diversity
Performance Appraisals
Downsizing
Training & Development
Needs Assessment and Diagnosis
Data collection
Data analysis
Proposed Organization Development Interventions/Strategy(ies)
Required resources
Timeline
Anticipated resistance
Potential benefit(s), i.e. cost savings
Suggested Evaluation Approach
Summary/Conclusions
This final assignment should be 8 to 10 pages in length (not including the title and reference pages). You must use at least five scholarly sources and format your paper according to APA style guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.