Analyze the influence of leadership on organizational effectiveness.

 Analyze the influence of leadership on organizational effectiveness.

Prepare a 5–7-page paper (1200–1800 words) not including the title and reference pages, describing how leaders use creativity and innovation for organizational effectiveness by using the following checklist:

· Introduction section: Introduce a specific organizational effectiveness goal you desire to achieve through creativity and innovation.

· Conduct research on two leadership practices that foster creativity and two that enhance innovation.

· Using the Leadership Self-Assessment Quiz 11-1: The Creative Personality Test (DuBrin, 2023), assess how similar your personality and attitudes are to those of creative people. Describe what you learned about your creative tendencies and provide recommendations for what you can do to increase your creative abilities.

· Analyze your current leadership practices and how well those practices enhance innovation then provide recommendations for increasing your overall effectiveness in this area. Be sure to use citations to connect the analysis and recommendations to the research.

· Conclude with a summary of the primary points of the paper and provide a call to action that connects to the stated goal from the introduction.

· Ensure substantive integration of appropriate current, and reliable resources, including in-text citations throughout, with a corresponding item on the reference list. A minimum of three viable sources are required (no older than 3 years) and at least one must be a scholarly/peer reviewed source.

· Your response should be spell and grammar-checked and demonstrate correct mechanics and appropriate writing style.

· Format your paper using APA 7th edition, including section headings.

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Unit Nine Assignment – Leadership for Organizational Effectiveness

Austin Tuoyo

Purdue Global University

GB600 Leadership Strategies in a Changing World

Dr. Carrie A. O’Hare

February 8, 2025

Unit Nine Assignment – Leadership for Organizational Effectiveness

Introduction

Introduce the purpose of the paper.

Describe your organizational effectiveness goal to be achieved through creativity.

Explain how the organizational effectiveness goal may be achieved through innovation.

Research Leadership Practices for Creativity

Research and identify two leadership practices that foster creativity.

Examine and report on the ability of the two leadership practices to be successful in a particular organization.

Investigate the potential of each leadership practice to achieve the organizational effectiveness goal you identified in the Introduction.

Research Leadership Practices for Innovation

Research and identify two leadership practices that foster innovation.

Examine and report on the ability of the two leadership practices to be successful in a particular organization.

Investigate the potential of each leadership practice to achieve the organizational effectiveness goal you identified in the Introduction.

Analyze Creativity Tendencies and Provide Recommendations

Share the results from Quiz 11-1 (Dubrin, 2023, p. 282).

Research and explain the similarities of your assessment results in terms of personality and attitudes, to those of creative people.

Provide a recommendation for increasing your overall creative abilities and explain how this will be implemented.

Analyze Innovation Practices and Provide Recommendations

Research to analyze your personal leadership practices to see how well they enhance innovation.

Provide recommendations for increasing your overall effectiveness for innovation.

Explain how the recommendations will be implemented.

Summarize and Create a Call to Action

Summarize the primary points in your paper .

Connect the Conclusion to the goal you identified in the Introduction.

Provide a call to action to support your recommendation.

References

Dubrin, A. J. (2023). Leadership: Research findings, practice, and skills (10th ed.). Cengage.