Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is help you assess your leadership style through a combination of self reporting instruments and feedback from others.
Instructions: Complete the following questionnaires located in Northouse’s text.
A. Leadership Trait Questionnaire. For this questionnaire alone, ask five other people, preferably work colleagues, to fill out the questionnaire. You need to answer the questions as well. Follow the scoring instructions at the bottom of page 38 (6th edition) and develop a chart like the one on page 39. What do these traits and personal qualities say about how you would lead others. What are their implications for your leadership style?
B. Style Questionnaire: Report on your score for this questionnaire and tell us how your preferences for task or relationship behaviors would impact the way you tend to lead and manage others. Fully explain what it means to be task or relationship oriented before you talk about the impact of these styles. (Hint: the explanation of these styles in Northouse’s text are inadequate and weak; in my opinion).
C. Path Goal Leadership Questionnaire: Again, report your scores and tell us the implications of these scores for how you lead others. In other words what behaviors are your subordinated likely to see with a person who has these scores?
D. The Psychodynamic Approach Questionnaire: This is a very brief form of the MBTI. Take and score the instrument and then tell us the how your Personality style would impact the way you lead. Focus on the information on pages 330-337 in Northouse’s text.
E. Based upon your scores list your strengths and weaknesses as a leader.
Criteria. Limit to 8 pages Turnitin score on cover page. You DO NOT need to refer to any outside references for this paper.
