Assignment
References from:
DuBrin's Leadership: Research Findings, Practice, and Skills?, and Schein's Business and Management: Organizational Culture and Leadership
INTRODUCTION
Great leaders understand the perspectives of their followers. From your experience as a follower in the real world, you will evaluate your leader's effectiveness using leadership theories, as well as their use of motivational techniques and power and influence to ensure and improve follower achievement. You will then justify recommendations for leadership improvement.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.
A. Consider a scenario from your past experience as a follower and do the following:
1. Evaluate the effectiveness of the leader within your example using either expectancy or equity theory.
a. Describe one example of how the leader might have improved upon their own performance.
2. Describe how three motivational techniques (e.g., recognition, praise, goal setting, encouraging creativity, innovation) were used by the leader and how the techniques affected followers.
a. Recommend an additional feedback, coaching, or executive coaching technique that could have been used by the leader to improve performance.
3. Describe how power and influence were used to accomplish organizational goals.
a. Describe how the power and influence techniques were either appropriate or inappropriate.
b. Recommend an additional power or influence technique the leader could have used to improve leader performance and the performance of one other person.
B. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
Format your assignment 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 assignment, 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.