Short Paper

he topics of management and leadership are important to a healthy and productive organization.  Students will write a paper focused on the human side of management and leadership using information from the course material, plus any supplemental material provided to you or from your own research.  

This paper requires student to reflect on the various topics covered in chapters 6-8 and then select three aspects of the human side of management and leadership and write about what is valuable to you, not to employees or other stakeholders within an organization.  In writing this short paper, students are expected to explain why each aspect is valued and why.  In explaining why, students must support their reasoning using the course material.  

Students need to avoid taking articles and writing the paper around the article.  Course material and articles contain information that will help students support their reasoning and it the reflection of the material that will provide the basis for the paper.

Required Elements of the Short Paper:

·         Identify at least  three aspects of the human side of management and leadership from the readings;

• Explain  why the aspects chosen should be valued;
• Apply the material learned in the course to support the reasoning of why these aspects are valued.

Required Formatting of Paper:

·         This report should be double spaced, 12-point font, and two to three pages in length excluding the title page and reference page;

·         Title page;

·         Introductory paragraph and a summary paragraph;

·         Write in the third person;

·         Use APA formatting for in-text citations and a reference page.  You are expected to paraphrase and not use quotes. Deductions will be taken when quotes are used and found to be unnecessary;