Draft a critical reflection regarding your current beliefs, assumptions, and understandings of organizational leadership. Reflect

Draft a critical reflection regarding your current beliefs, assumptions, and understandings of organizational leadership. Reflect on how the assigned readings have influenced, negated, and/or affirmed your suppositions relative to organizational leadershi

In this paper, you are asked to draft a critical reflection regarding your current beliefs, assumptions, and understandings of organizational leadership. Reflect on how the assigned readings have influenced, negated, and/or affirmed your suppositions relative to organizational leadership at this point. Address the following in your reflection:

• Explain your current beliefs, assumptions, and understandings about organizational leadership.
• Determine why organizational leadership is important for the success of an organization.
• Indicate how the assigned readings have affected your suppositions relative to organizational leadership.
• Predict how you see yourself growing in your understanding of organizational leadership principles.
• Provide specific examples to support your thoughts.

Support your reflection with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 5pages, not including title and reference pages

Week 2 Assignment: Evaluate Your Personal Leadership Style

Activity Description

Begin this week’s assignment by completing the Path-Goal Leadership Questionnaire, found in this week’s Books and Resources.

Then, draft a critical evaluation and explanation of your score. In detail, describe what you have learned from completing this questionnaire and how you will utilize this information when assuming a leadership position. Provide specific examples to illustrate and support your thoughts.

Support your paper with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 5pages, not including title and reference pages

Week 3 Assignment: Recommend Exemplary Leadership Behavior

Activity Description

In a case study, identify an organization, and then describe the specific behaviors leaders (CEO, senior members, etc.) exhibit for each of the Five Fundamental Practices of Exemplary Leadership outlined by Kouzes and Posner.  (see:  http://www.leadershipchallenge.com/About-section-Our-Approach.aspx)
In addition to describing the behaviors, explain whether employees positively or negatively view the leadership behaviors. Recommend specific behaviors/actions leaders should consider using or improving to more successfully inspire and motivate employees and colleagues.

Support your case study with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 5 pages, not including title and reference pages

Week 4 Assignment: Cultivate Ethical Leadership Standards

Activity Description

To develop your own set of ethical leadership standards, begin by conducting five mini-case studies. In each study, identify a leader you are familiar with or one in the news who exhibits one of Northouse’s five ethical leadership principles. Select a different leader for each of the five principles. Explain the scenario in which the leader exhibited the particular principle as well as the leader’s actions and practices that aligned with this principle.

Then, using the scholarly literature on the topic of ethics and ethical leadership practices, behaviors, and traits, develop your own set of ethical leadership principles you will espouse in the business environment. Be sure the principles address both the impact and influence on your followers, as well as the impact on the greater organization’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts and focus.

Support your paper with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 5 pages, not including title and reference pages

Week 5 Assignment: Assess the Applicability of Modern Leadership Theory

Activity Description

Develop a critical analysis of the applicability of modern leadership theories (transformational, servant, ethical, and charismatic theories) to current leadership situations. The goal is to effectively critique these leadership styles, beginning with an overview of the transition from historical leadership theories (Great Man, trait, behavioral, contingency, and transactional) to the modern styles, followed by an analysis of their applicability to professional situations you have experienced or read about in the news.

Support your analysis with at least seven scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 7  pages, not including title and reference pages

Week 6 Assignment: Present the Ways in Which Reflection Can be Used as a Leadership Tool

Activity Description

Using what you have gained from the resources for this week, develop a presentation for your colleagues on reflection as a tool for developing one’s leadership style. Identify the various ways you reflect and the methods of reflection you have yet to try. Finally, discuss how reflection has improved your professional practice as a leader and the role self-reflection plays in becoming a more effective leader.

Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists.

Support your presentation with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.

Length: 12  slides (with a separate reference slide)
Notes Length: 200words for each slide

Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate. Save the file as PPT with the correct course code information.

Week 7 Assignment: Prepare a Leadership Plan to Increase Gender Consciousness and Awareness 
Activity Description

Develop a comprehensive leadership plan that you believe, based on your research, will increase gender consciousness and awareness in your organization. In your plan, address the following:

• Assess any existing advancement barriers, and then explain how you plan to overcome them.
• Describe current and proposed retention plans.
• Identify current policies and opportunities that may be outdated or ineffective, and provide your proposed plans for their revision and implementation.
• Propose new initiatives, and then explain how you would implement them.

Support your plan with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 5 pages, not including title and reference pages

Week 8 Assignment: Critique Organizational Culture 
Activity Description

For this assignment, assume you have been asked by organizational stakeholders to assess your organization’s culture. This can be your organization or one with which you are familiar.

Using the Dimensions of Culture Questionnaire as your assessment instrument, find three to five individuals from your selected organization and have them complete the questionnaire. Then, compile the data based on the assessment scoring guide.

Prepare a comprehensive report that interprets and critiques your organization’s culture based on the findings from the individuals’ responses. This report should provide your findings to pertinent stakeholders. Include the following in your report:

• Explain the methodology and/or process of the assessment instrument for the stakeholders.
• Provide a detailed assessment of your organization’s culture, including both positive and negative findings.
• Based on the objective data collected using the assessment instrument, determine at least three areas in need of change.
• Recommend improvements for the organization’s culture.

Support your report with at least seven scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 12 pages, not including title and reference pages