Leadership

These are the points to consider:To what extent, according to Plato, is it easy to change people? To what extent does he believe it is easier to change ideas?Why does Plato consider it easier to maintain the status rather than to implement change?What role does insight play in defining and influencing change within an organization?What does Plato consider to be the highest duty of the legislator or leader of the state?No citations are needed.

What role should one’s personal values and beliefs play in his or her leadership?

The discussion Boards focus on a particular group of ethical leadership and organizational ethics concepts. These discussions are designed to be scholarly examinations of complex constructs and through the engagement of fellow students, offer deeper exploration. Your expanded exploration and graceful challenges will provoke deeper learning and the development of sound reasoning in support of clearer, worldview-based ethical perspectives. In the process of discussions, you will also develop richer research, reasoning, and doctoral level presentation practices as you deepen your personal ethical leadership understanding.These discussions are intended to be scholarly dialogs and for each thread, you must support all of your assertions with proper scholarly support in APA format with sources listed as References at the end of the post. Support ALL claims and information provided. Discussions threads are expected to engage the assigned subject matter, drawing on the reading and study materials within the course as well as additional researched scholarly materials. A minimum of 4 scholarly sources are required for your initial thread. Acceptable sources are textbooks, Bible, peer-reviewed journal articles, and quality popular press articles (HBR, Forbes, BusinessWeek, etc.) with no more than 1 popular press article per week.Assignment:Explain how ethical considerations, reasoning, power, and worldviews may influence how leaders make decisions and how the decision-making method they use may impact the leader’s ability to influence. Integrate the results of your Self-Assessment 5.1 from Johnson in your discussion. Feel free to include decision-models beyond those covered in the text at your option. Incorporate study material, personal worldview, experiences, observations, and reasoning principles that should be considered. As usual, use textbooks and peer-reviewed scholarly journals to support your perspectives or arguments. Be sure to review the Discussions Instructions document and grading rubric (found in the Assignment Instructions folder) for additional assignment guidance.You must include at least 4 scholarly sources (with a limit of 1 popular press article). Please read the grading rubric before starting this paper.Readings: (Attached)•    Damer: chs. 2 –4•    Johnson: chs. 3, 5, Self-Assessment 5.1•    Koukl: God (chapter 6)

Module 3 – SLP360-DEGREE FEEDBACKFor this assignment you will be applying the concepts from the background readings to some specific scenarios that you might face if you were a leadership development coach. Make sure to thoroughly review Fleenor, et al. (2008) before starting on this assignment.For each of the scenarios below, use at least one reference from the required readings to answer the specific question. Use your knowledge of the background readings to diagnose each scenario in terms of what went wrong and what could have been done differently. Your paper should be 2-3 pages in length:An organization decides that they don’t want to spend the large amount of money to use a 360-degree survey from an established vendor and instead decides to develop their own survey. An employee in the human resource department is asked to create a list of 50 questions about different areas of leadership performance. Two of the senior managers look at the questions briefly and then send out the survey as part of a 360-degree process. Once the results come in, there is no rhyme or reason to the results. For example, one top performing leader in the organization gets perfect performance scores from some employees and very negative scores from other employees. Management is not sure if the results from the survey can be trusted or not.A unit in one organization is having a lot of performance issues and senior management is not sure of the reasons for this. They don’t want to fire any employees, but they do think some of the supervisors need to improve their leadership skills. The survey is sent to five employees, which includes two supervisors and three direct reports. They are told that although the survey will be anonymous, the results of each survey will be shared with all five employees; the names will be removed from each survey, and they will all be able to see the evaluation scores on each question. When senior management sees the survey results, they find that all five employees received almost perfect scores and no useful information from the surveys can be found.A software company is concerned that they are losing market share to their competitors and that their software is not as high in quality as it used to be. In an effort to improve their competitiveness, they decide to use a 360-degree survey process to identify areas for improvement in leadership skills among their top supervisors in their software design department. After searching through a few different 360-degree instruments offered by different vendors, they find a survey that focuses on communication and teamwork skills. The process seems to go very well as supervisors who score low on communication or teamwork agree to go through training to improve these skills. One year later, the 360-degree process is repeated, and most supervisors show greatly improved communication and teamwork skills. However, the quality of the company’s software does not seem to have improved at all in spite of the improvements in communication and teamwork.?Required Material?First, start out by viewing this short introduction to 360-degree feedback:Sheahan, P. (2013). Test your assumptions. [Books24x7 version]. Available in the  Online Library.Davis, Erroll, Jr., ( © 2005). Using feedback to become a more effective leader. [Video File]. [Books24x7 version]Lepsinger, Richard & Lucia, Anntoinette D.. ( © 2009). The art and science of 360 degree feedback, second edition. [Books24x7 version]Now read Chapters 1 and 2 of the following book for a more thorough and detailed overview of the 306-degree feedback process.  The checklist on page 37 will be useful for the Case Assignment:Book JacketTaylor, S., Chappelow, C., & Fleenor, J. (2008). Leveraging the Impact of 360-Degree Feedback. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Pfeiffer. [EBSCO eBook Collection]The Vukotich (2014) article below is also highly recommended but not required.Optional ReadingVukotich, G. (2014). 360° Feedback: Ready, Fire, Aim-Issues With Improper Implementation. Performance Improvement, 53(1), 30-35.Mukherjee, S. (2014). Chapter 10: 360 degree survey in coaching need assessment. Corporate Coaching: The Essential Guide. New Delhi, India: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd. [EBSCO eBook Collection]   

Unit VI PowerPoint PresentationFor this assignment, you will assume you are a member of an organization’s training and development team. You aretasked with putting together a briefing for the senior leaders of the team on diversity leadership.You decide to discuss the two topics of expanding leadership opportunities for women within the organization and theimportance of understanding cultural differences between members of your Nebraska and South Korea manufacturingplants.Create a PowerPoint presentation that addresses the following items listed below:….Identify common reasons for the dearth of women leaders….Discuss possible measures that could increase leadership opportunities for women….Identify two significant cultural differences between the Anglo and Confucian Asia clusters….Discuss possible different leadership approaches based on these differences.The PowerPoint presentation will be a minimum of eight slides, notcounting the title and reference slides. The content slidecount will be split equally between the two diversity topics.You must use at least two outside sources to support yourpresentation.All sources used must be properly cited, and allreferences should be formatted in APA style 7.

The research paper will be 6-8 double-spaced pages in text length, not including cover page, Table of Contents, References, or Appendices Paper must be written according to APA style and be carefully referenced.The purpose of this paper is to take a narrow leadership topic and do an in-depth review of the current literature on this topic. This is a library research paper and you must use at least 10 different scholarly sources, in addition to the textbooks. Be sure to use published journal articles as your sources, not less-reliable Internet web sites.  Reference your paper very carefully and tightly. Appearance, punctuation, grammar, neatness, and spelling count.  This must be a professional looking paper to receive full credit. Paper should have an introduction, body, conclusion, and reference section. Paper should also have a Table of Contents and appropriate headings and sub-headings in the body of the paper.  Be sure to use the required title page.  Write transition sentences between sections so that the reader knows where you are going and why.  Note that this is a research paper.  Avoid all first person pronouns and personal opinion.You may choose from the list of topics below or suggest one of your own to the instructor. If you choose a different other than the topics presented below, be sure to e-mail your topic to the instructor and get approval before you start working. This assignment is worth 35% (35 points) of your grade.***      Suggested Topics for Research Papers (Be sure to relate topic specifically to Leadership Research)Charismatic leadershipLeading through mentoringExecutive leadership developmentGender and leadership researchTraits of effective leadersTransformational leadershipCan leadership be learned?What do leaders value?The ethics of effective leadersNew trends in leadership researchStatus of the glass ceiling with female and minority leadersHow do leaders influence followers?Followership theory—Looking at leadership from the bottom upRubricThe Individual Research Paper Assignment is worth 35% (35 points) of your grade. Content is worth 25 points; writing quality is worth 6 points and APA style is worth 4 points. The following three (3) components will be graded in each category. Also, refer to this website for additional guidance on formatting papers: http://education.nova.edu/Resources/uploads/app/28/files/PDF/fce_standard_format.pdfContent (25 points)- The leadership topic was well defined- Conducted an in-depth review of the current literature on the leadership topic- Paper included an introduction, body, conclusion, and reference section.- Paper included appropriate headings and sub-headings in the body of the paper.- 6-8 double spaced pages- Overall organization of assignmentWriting quality (6 points)- Proper use of grammar, syntax, and punctuation- Graduate quality writing- Logical flow of ideas- Appropriate integration of researchAPA style (4 points)- Appropriate use of direct and indirect quotes- Appropriate use of citations in the text- Correct format of reference list

Leadership Development Group Case Study Assignment.PPT, questions to be assignedHBR Case Study: https://hbr.org/2003/10/the-harder-they-fallDiscussion questions:They all failed.  Why? What were their blind spots?  How could they have avoided their failure?  How do you recover?  Can you apologize?  Can you recover?What are the root causes of leaders losing their way?  Can you identify leaders from your personal experience who have lost their way or are in danger of doing so?What can leaders, including yourself, do to avoid these temptations, stay grounded, and be authentic in their leadership?

Review slides 4 (Let’s Play “Who Wants to be a Coach?”) and 5 (Why People Fail to Perform) provided in this week’s Power Point presentation (located under Lecture Material in the Module for Week 3).  After studying these slides prepare a two or three paragraph discussion to explain if your professional experiences support the list of causes for deficient performance. If not, what have you experienced as the major cause for poor performance at work? If yes, which ones are most prevalent?

PLEASE USENorthouse, P. G. (2019). Leadership: Theory and practice (8th ed.). SAGE.https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781506362304I WILL ALSO UPLOAD MY STUDY GUIDE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON TRAIT APPROACH AND SKILLS APPROACH.UNIT 2Having now studied the trait approach, skills approach, and behavioral approach, which seems to appeal the most to you to assess your current, past, or proposed future professional or personal situation? Share how you can use your preferred approach. If none of them resonate with you, explain why, and offer alternatives you find useful.UNIT 4Most of us have experience with in-groups and out-groups. Discuss a time when you were in one or the other and wished you were in the one you were not. In other words, you might have been in the in-group but resented the extra pressure and responsibility, or, conversely, you might have been in the out-group and wished you had more access and input in decisions being made. How did leadership theories manifest in these situations? Most of us have experience with in-groups and out-groups. Discuss a time when you were in one or the other and wished you were in the one you were not. In other words, you might have been in the in-group but resented the extra pressure and responsibility, or, conversely, you might have been in the out-group and wished you had more access and input in decisions being made. How did leadership theories manifest in these situations?

Session Long Project (SLP)Write a 2-page paper (excluding title page and reference list) that includes the following components:A.    IntroductionB.    Create a two-column table that includes the components of the structural frame and human resources frameC.    Reflect on the interaction of the structural frame and the human resources framea.    Select one case study (Beth Israel or Ford Motor Company) related to a restructureb.    Select one human needs theory (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs or Theory X and Theory Y or Argyris’ Personality and Organization)c.    Respond to the following questions:i.    What aspects of human needs should Joyce Clifford or Allen Mullaly consider during a restructure?ii.    In your opinion, what is the potential negative or positive impact of considering human needs during a restructure?D.    Reflect on how the structural frame or human resources frame is useful to you in your current role as a leader or managerAPA Reference