Discussion Post: Psychological Foundation of Leadership
• Reflecting upon an organizational experience, relate your assessment of a leader who demonstrated high competence in one of the four foundations but weakness in at least one other. Provide a prescriptive remedy for improvement.
• Identify a leader with significant growth opportunities. Share how their influence did not result in either commitment, compliance, or resistance. Provide supporting examples. If you have never had a leader, you may be hypothetical in your response. Provide some advice you would give this leader to help them improve.
• Reflect upon a situation in your workplace or other organization where effective collaboration was absent during a challenging time for leadership. What was the root cause? Did the leader demonstrate behaviors conducive toward building a shared vision for organizational success? Explain.
• Reflect upon how you would use either Fiedler's theory, the path-goal theory, or the normative decision model in a newly assigned leadership role, where you have been a supervisor for 5 years and progressed through promotions within the company. Several of your peers hoped to be selected for the position; you notice a sense of indifference from them as you will now directly supervise them. Please discuss how you would assess the environment of the workplace to decide which theory to apply.
• As we are exploring the dimensions of charismatic and transformational leadership, reflect on whether you believe these styles cognitively develop or if you believe they are directly a function of genetic traits. Please select your position, and justify with at least two examples.
• Reflect upon a leader, either from experience or from research, who created a learning organization. Examples to consider are Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Identify leadership characteristics that you believe are essential in driving a learning organization toward success, and support your selection.
• A leader needs to have followers in order to succeed. Identify two characteristics you could implement as a leader to mold followers into a high-performing team. Then, share an experience where you observed a leader in any capacity with these skills.
• Reflect on how the concepts in this course can be applied to real-world situations and increase your chances of career or life success.
The response must include a reference list. One-inch margins, double-space, Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font and APA style of writing and citations.