Describe an existing organization with which
you have had personal experience and its objective(s).
1. Describe three leadership
practices of the current leader, other than yourself, in the existing
organization.
Note: Leadership practices
are routine actions, behaviors, functions, and responsibilities that the
current leader performs.
2. Discuss how the current leader has affected
organizational culture.
Note: You may represent any
level of the chosen organization (e.g., team, department, division, whole) and
the respective current leader in your description.
B. Conduct a SWOT analysis evaluating the chosen
organization by doing the following:
1. Evaluate two of the
organization’s current strengths.
2. Evaluate two of the
organization’s current weaknesses.
3. Evaluate two of the
organization’s current unmet opportunities.
4. Evaluate two of the
organization’s current unresolved threats.
Note: The accepted model for a
SWOT analysis defines strengths and weaknesses as internal to the organization,
and opportunities and threats as external to the organization.
C. Conduct a leadership evaluation of the current leader
discussed in part A1, using one of the scholarly
leadership theories below, by doing the
following:
• transformational leadership
• transactional leadership
• situational leadership
• participative leadership
• servant leadership
• behavioral leadership
• trait theory of leadership
1. Evaluate three strengths of
the current leader, using the chosen scholarly leadership theory, including how each strength
relates to the theory. Support the evaluation of the leader’s strengths with at
least one scholarly
source.
2. Evaluate three weaknesses of
the current leader, using the chosen scholarly leadership theory, including how each weakness
relates to the theory. Support the evaluation of the leader’s weaknesses with at
least one scholarly
source.
3. Recommend three actionable
items to improve the effectiveness of the current leader, including how each actionable
item relates to the chosen scholarly leadership theory. Support the
recommendations of actionable items with at least one scholarly
source.
Note: The recommendations need to
address the current leaders identified leadership weakness.
