Option #1: Transformational Leader with Vision Assignment 2
Transformation leaders are viewed as change agents in their organization. They develop, build, model and encourage the vision for the organization. Choose a leader and evaluate how he or she supports the elements of vision in his or her organization. You must identify the leader and his or her organization, and provide a URL to the leader’s website and to the organization.
Instructions:
- Evaluate how this leader communicates the vision.
- What does this leader do to encourage experimentation?
- How does this leader model the vision?
- Evaluate how this leader builds commitment to the vision.
Paper Requirements:
- Your paper should include an introduction and a conclusion and should be 4-5 pages long, not including the title or reference pages, which you must include.
- Incorporate two scholarly references that are not required readings for this module. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find your sources.
- Follow theCSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA.
Review the Module 2 Critical Thinking Rubric for full details on how you will be graded on this assignment. Reach out to your instructor with any questions.
Option #2: What is Vision?
In the world of business there is a growing need for a vision for the future of all organizations. Vision has four basic concepts, which are: develop and communicate a strategic vision, build commitment to the vision, model the vision, and encourage experimentation. In your present organization, how do leaders support the four parts of vision? If you are presently not working, use one you are familiar with.
Answer these questions:
- Given the information you have read about the four core concepts of vision, what is the vision of your organization? Does this vision follow the four core concepts of vision?
- Describe how your organization supports the vision.
- What should your organization do to better support the vision?
Directions
- Your presentation should be either a 5- to 8-minute video or 10-12 narrated slides with images and detailed speaker notes (between 75 to 100 words per slide), not counting the title and reference page slides, which you must include in both the video and slide presentation.
- You may use your smartphone, webcam, or other video recording device, PowerPoint or an internet-based program such as Prezi or Slide Rocket. Be sure to include the URL of your presentation when using internet-based tools. Paste the URL into a Word document and upload it with your presentation.
- You may also record your audio/video presentation using the Schoology tools. Click here for a Schoology tutorial on how to add audio or video to an assignment.
- Incorporate two scholarly references that are not required readings for this module. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find your sources.
- Follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA. See the Example PPT Presentationin the Online Research and Writing Lab for information on presentation development.
Review the Module 2 Critical Thinking Rubric for full details on how you will be graded on this assignment. Reach out to your instructor with any questions.
Option #1: Power in Organizations Paper Assignment 3
As you have read in this week’s required readings, there are three fundamental sources of power (or five when you look at expert and referent power) in any organization. Choose an organization you have worked for or researched and analyze the forms of power.
Instructions:
- Which of the sources of power is officially recognized by senior leadership?
- What are the reasons for the dominance of this form of power in your organization?
- Would a different form of power be more effective? Defend your choice.
Paper Requirements:
- Your paper should include an introduction and a conclusion and should be 4-5 pages long, not including the title or reference pages, which you must include.
- Incorporate two scholarly references that are not required readings for this module. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find your sources.
- Follow theCSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA.
Review the Module 3 Critical Thinking Rubric for full details on how you will be graded on this assignment. Reach out to your instructor if you have any questions about the assignment.
Option #2: Power in Organizations Presentation
As you have read in this week’s required readings, there are three fundamental sources of power (or five when you look at expert and referent power) in any organization. Choose an organization you have worked for or researched and analyze the forms of power.
Instructions:
- Which of the sources of power is officially recognized by senior leadership?
- Which source(s) is really in power and what are the reasons for this form of power being so dominant in the organization?
- What form of power do you use at work and in your life? How did you develop this form of power?
Presentation Requirements:
- Your presentation should be either a 5- to 8-minute video or 10-12 narrated slides with images and detailed speaker notes (between 75 to 100 words per slide), not counting the title and reference page slides, which you must include in both the video and slide presentation.
- You may use your smartphone, webcam, or other video recording device, PowerPoint or an internet-based program such as Prezi or Slide Rocket. Be sure to include the URL of your presentation when using internet-based tools. Paste the URL into a Word document and upload it with your presentation.
- You may also record your audio/video presentation using the Schoology tools. Click here for a Schoology tutorial on how to add audio or video to an assignment.
- Incorporate two scholarly references that are not required readings for this module. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find your sources.
- Follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA. See the Example PPT Presentationin the Online Research and Writing Lab for information on presentation development.
Review the Module 3 Critical Thinking Rubric for full details on how you will be graded on this assignment. Reach out to your instructor if you have any questions about the assignment.
Option #1: Unethical Influence Tactics Assignment 4
Think about a time when you experienced a leader who used negative or unethical influence tactics in an organization, or research a leader known for the use of negative or unethical influence tactics. You must identify the leader and organization, and provide a URL to the website of one or the other as part of a narrated presentation.
Instructions:
- Provide a brief overview of the leader and the organization, the situation, and any other key players relevant to the situation.
- Describe the specific unethical influence tactics that were used in the situation. Then, analyze those influence tactics in terms of the leader’s overall leadership strategy and use of power within the organization.
- What was the outcome of the situation? If you were the leader in that situation, what would you have done differently?
Presentation Requirements:
- Your presentation should be either a 5- to 8-minute video or 10-12 narrated slides with images and detailed speaker notes (between 75 to 100 words per slide), not counting the title and reference page slides, which you must include in both the video and slide presentation.
- You may use your smartphone, webcam, or other video recording device, PowerPoint or an internet-based program such as Prezi or Slide Rocket. Be sure to include the URL of your presentation when using internet-based tools. Paste the URL into a Word document and upload it with your presentation.
- You may also record your audio/video presentation using the Schoology tools. Click here for a Schoology tutorial on how to add audio or video to an assignment.
- Incorporate two scholarly references that are not required readings for this module. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find your sources.
- Follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA. See the Example PPT Presentationin the Online Research and Writing Lab for information on presentation development.
Review the Module 4 Critical Thinking Rubric for full details on how you will be graded on this assignment. Reach out to your instructor if you have any questions about the assignment.
Option #2: Office Politics
As you have read in this week’s required readings, there are multiple factors that can contribute to office politics, and every organization experiences office politics to some extent. Choose an organization and analyze that organization in terms of politics. You must identify the leader and organization, and provide a URL to the website of either the organization or the leader. Then, create a narrated presentation.
Answer these questions in your presentation:
- What factor(s) contribute to the politics?
- What strategies do effective leaders use to navigate the politics?
- What strategies do ineffective leaders use to navigate the politics?
- What role does leadership in general play in the organization’s political climate?
Presentation Requirements:
- Your presentation should be either a 5- to 8-minute video or 10-12 narrated slides with images and detailed speaker notes (between 75 to 100 words per slide), not counting the title and reference page slides, which you must include in both the video and slide presentation.
- You may use your smartphone, webcam, or other video recording device, PowerPoint or an internet-based program such as Prezi or Slide Rocket. Be sure to include the URL of your presentation when using internet-based tools. Paste the URL into a Word document and upload it with your presentation.
- You may also record your audio/video presentation using the Schoology tools. Click here for a Schoology tutorial on how to add audio or video to an assignment.
- Incorporate two scholarly references that are not required readings for this module. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find your sources.
- Follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA. See the Example PPT Presentationin the Online Research and Writing Lab for information on presentation development.
Review the Module 4 Critical Thinking Rubric for full details on how you will be graded on this assignment. Reach out to your instructor if you have any questions about the assignment.
Option #1: Handling Organizational Conflict Paper Assignment 5
Research an organization that has recently had major conflict that made the news. You must identify the organization and the source of the conflict.
Instructions:
- Describe the five common approaches individuals use to deal with conflict, and identify and explain the approach(es) this organization has used to deal with conflict.
- Explain the negative and positive consequences of the conflict.
- Provide an example of how this organization could have handled the conflict in a different manner, and discuss possible outcomes from this approach.
- Summarize the strengths and weaknesses of the conflict resolution approaches you researched.
Paper Requirements:
- Your paper should include an introduction and a conclusion and should be 4-5 pages long, not including the title or reference pages, which you must include.
- Incorporate two scholarly references that are not required readings for this module. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find your sources.
- Follow theCSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA.
Review the Module 5 Critical Thinking Rubric for full details on how you will be graded on this assignment. Reach out to your instructor if you have any questions about the assignment.
Option #2: Handling Interpersonal Conflict Presentation
How we handle conflict is often more important than why there is conflict in our lives in the first place.
Instructions:
- Describe the five conflict handling styles and explain which style(s) you use in work-related conflict.
- Analyze how gender plays a role in the style used in conflict and discuss the negative and positive consequences of this.
- Analyze how culture plays a role in the style used in conflict and discuss the negative and positive consequences of this.
Presentation Requirements:
- Your presentation should be either a 5- to 8-minute video or 10-12 narrated slides with images and detailed speaker notes (between 75 to 100 words per slide), not counting the title and reference page slides, which you must include in both the video and slide presentation.
- You may use your smartphone, webcam, or other video recording device, PowerPoint or an internet-based program such as Prezi or Slide Rocket. Be sure to include the URL of your presentation when using internet-based tools. Paste the URL into a Word document and upload it with your presentation.
- You may also record your audio/video presentation using the Schoology tools. Click here for a Schoology tutorial on how to add audio or video to an assignment.
- Incorporate two scholarly references that are not required readings for this module. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find your sources.
- Follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA. See the Example PPT Presentationin the Online Research and Writing Lab for information on presentation development.
Review the Module 5 Critical Thinking Rubric for full details on how you will be graded on this assignment. Reach out to your instructor if you have any questions about the assignment.
Option #1: Team-Based Organizations Paper Assignment 6
All organizations use teams. Conduct research on an organization that has self-identified as a team-based organization. In your paper, identify the organization and open with a detailed history on its successful use of teaming.
Then, answer these questions:
- What characteristics make the organization a team-based organization? What leadership styles are used within that organization?
- How does the team-based setting affect leadership power and influence within the organization?
- What do leaders do within this organization to successfully foster teamwork?
Paper Requirements:
- Your paper must be 4–5 pages in length, not counting the required title,abstract, and reference pages.
- Incorporate two scholarly references that are not required readings for this module. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find your sources.
- Follow theCSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA.
Review the Module 6 Critical Thinking Rubric for full details on how you will be graded on this assignment. Reach out to your instructor if you have any questions about the assignment.
Option #2: Cultural Dimensions – Individualism/Collectivism Presentation
According to Hofstede (1980), some cultures are different in terms of their cultural dimensions (p.18). One of these dimensions isindividualism/collectivism.
Create a presentation, following these instructions:
- Choose two countries, one that has a high individualism score and one that has a low individualism score.
- Analyze each culture in terms of how this cultural dimension may affect leadership style, leading teams, fostering teamwork, and the dynamics within teams in each culture.
- Analyze the role of power and influence within the team settings in each of these countries.
Presentation Requirements:
- Your presentation should be either a 5- to 8-minute video or 10-12 narrated slides with images and detailed speaker notes (between 75 to 100 words per slide), not counting the title and reference page slides, which you must include in both the video and slide presentation.
- You may use your smartphone, webcam, or other video recording device, PowerPoint or an internet-based program such as Prezi or Slide Rocket. Be sure to include the URL of your presentation when using internet-based tools. Paste the URL into a Word document and upload it with your presentation.
- You may also record your audio/video presentation using the Schoology tools. Click here for a Schoology tutorial on how to add audio or video to an assignment.
- Incorporate two scholarly references that are not required readings for this module. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find your sources.
- Follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA. See the Example PPT Presentationin the Online Research and Writing Lab for information on presentation development.
Review the Module 6 Critical Thinking Rubric for full details on how you will be graded on this assignment. Reach out to your instructor if you have any questions about the assignment.
Option #1: Leadership Analysis Paper Assignment 8 portfolio projects
For this Portfolio Project paper, you will choose two leaders, one male and one female. These two leaders do not need to be from the same organization. One leader should be what you would consider “effective and successful” and the other should be what you would consider “ineffective and unsuccessful.”
Compare these two leaders regarding their leadership characteristics, use of power and influence, and how these relate to their effectiveness or lack of effectiveness within their respective organization.
The entire portfolio project is worth 35% of your overall grade for this course. Make sure to use research to back up your statements within the paper. You will need to address each of the following as they relate to your two leaders. Each element is worth equal value.
Instructions:
- A brief background and organizational framework for each leader, including job title and general description, industry in which they work, number of subordinates they supervise, and their leadership level within the organization (lower level, middle level, executive level)
- A comparison of the techniques used by each leader to gain power in his or her role within the organization
- A comparison of how subordinates relate to each leader, including how much influence the subordinates have on each leader
- An analysis of how each leader uses influence to change the behavior of other leaders, co-workers, and subordinates within the organization
- A comparison of the techniques used by each leader to influence employee motivation
- An analysis of self-destructive tendencies (dark characteristics) of each leader, and how these tendencies affect the organization
- A comparison of how each leader rewards employees, and how effective the reward systems are
- An analysis of which leadership theory best describes each leader and the reasons why you selected the leadership theory based on research
Requirements:
- Your paper must be 8–10 pages in length, not counting the required title,abstract, and reference pages.
- You must back up your analysis with at least six references not used as required or recommended readings in this course. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these sources. You may also use additional credible sources including newspapers, trade journals, government reports, and white papers. You may not use Wikipedia in any CSU-Global course.
- Include a cover page denoting the paper title, your name, the course number and name, your instructor’s name, and the date you are making the submission.
- Include an outline or table of contents.
- Include a brief abstract statement summarizing your hypothesis or findings.
- Format your paper according to theCSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA. Use APA citations where appropriate, and include an APA- formatted reference page at the end.
Review the Portfolio Project Rubric for more information on how you will be graded on this assignment. Reach out to your instructor with any questions.
Option #2: Leadership Analysis Presentation
For this Portfolio Project presentation, you will choose two well-known leaders in different countries and cultures (for example, a leader from the United States and a leader from China). You will compare these two leaders in terms of their leadership styles, their methods for gaining power and influence, and their success and effectiveness as a leader.
The entire portfolio project is worth 35% of your overall grade for this course. Make sure to use research to back up your statements within the paper. You will need to address each of the following as they relate to your two leaders. Each question is worth equal value.
Instructions:
- A brief background for each leader including a profile of the leader, the organization they work for, the country or culture in which they work, the industry in which they work, their leadership level within the organization (lower level, middle level, executive level), and any other relevant information
- An overview of the culture in which the leader holds a position of leadership
- A comparison of the techniques used by each leader to gain power in his or her role within the organization
- A comparison of how subordinates relate to each leader, including how much influence the subordinates have on each leader in his or her respective culture
- An analysis of how each leader uses influence to change the behavior of other leaders, co-workers, and subordinates based on his or her respective culture
- A comparison of the techniques used by each leader to influence employee motivation
- An analysis of self-destructive tendencies (dark characteristics) of each leader, and how these tendencies affect the leadership effectiveness
- An analysis of which leadership theory best describes each leader and the reasons why you selected the leadership theory based on research
- An evaluation of how successful the two leaders are in their respective cultures and ideas for how they could improve their effectiveness given the culture in which they are leaders
Requirements:
- Your presentation should be either a 5- to 8-minute video or 10-12 narrated slides with images and detailed speaker notes (between 75 to 100 words per slide), not counting the title and reference page slides, which you must include in both the video and slide presentation.
- You may use your smartphone, webcam, or other video recording device, PowerPoint or an internet-based program such as Prezi or Slide Rocket. Be sure to include the URL of your presentation when using internet-based tools. Paste the URL into a Word document and upload it with your presentation.
- You may also record your audio/video presentation using the Schoology tools. Click here for a Schoology tutorial on how to add audio or video to an assignment.
- Incorporate two scholarly references that are not required readings for this module. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find your sources.
- Follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA. See the Example PPT Presentationin the Online Research and Writing Lab for information on presentation development.
Review the Portfolio Project Rubric for more information on how you will be graded on this assignment. Reach out to your instructor with any questions.
