2 pages

You will be applying the concepts in the uploaded materials to your own personal experiences in the workplace. For this assignment choose a supervisor that you personally worked for and got to know well and compare and contrast this supervisor’s leadership characteristics with your own personal leadership characteristics using the concepts from the uploaded materials. Carefully reflect on your supervisor’s traits, behaviors, and leadership styles. Then write a 2 page paper (excluding title page and References Page) to include 2 scholarly sources from the uploaded references and addressing the following issues:

1. Overall, is your current role more of a leadership or a management role? How about your supervisor?

2. What key differences in leadership behaviors do you see between yourself and your supervisor? Refer to the concepts of being task-oriented, or people-centered/relationship-oriented that are discussed in the required background materials.

3. What key differences in leadership traits do you see between yourself and your supervisor? Refer to specific leadership traits discussed in the required textbook chapters.

4. Would you describe your and your supervisor’s leadership style as diverse and inclusive? If so or if not, please explain your response. 

Assignment Expectations

1. Should be 2 pages in length (not including title and reference pages).

2. Be sure to cite and reference (using APA Style) a minimum of 2 scholarly sources listed in the Course Materials and Bibliography

Hartzell, S. (2014, September 14). Management vs leadership [Video]. YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeT12i0cppE

Hiriyappa, B. (2009). Chapter 10: Dynamics of managerial leadership. In Organizational behavior. New Delhi: New Age International.

Hymowitz, C. (2005). Working fewer hours is hard for most CEOs, but some find a way. Wall Street Journal, p. B1.

Leibovich, M. (2000). The outsider, his business and his billions series: The new imperialists: Larry Ellison, oracle until himself. The Washington Post, p. A1.

Mendleson, R. (2010). Why it pays to be a jerk. Canadian Business, 83(18), 28-30, 32, 34.

Luthans, F. (2015). Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based Approach (13th ed.). Information Age Publishing.

Maxwell, J. C. (1999). The 21 indispensable qualities of a leader: Becoming the person others will want to follow. 

Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2008). The leadership challenge (4th ed.). [Books24x7 version].