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LeadershipAssignmentInstructions.docLeadership Assignment (50 Points Total—10% of Your Grade)
Instructions
Select a well-known business leader and analyze him or her. Under three distinct headings, answer the following questions that will help guide your analysis: (1) Leader Identification: What traits does this leader possess that contribute to his/her successes and/or failures as a leader? What effective and/or ineffective behaviors does this leader engage in? Which contemporary theories of/approaches to leadership are most applicable to this leader? (2) Influencing Followers: What approaches does and/or should this leader use to influence followers? (3) Leadership across Organizational Contexts: How does/should this individual lead across organizational contexts? Discuss specific examples and consider how different contingency approaches to leadership play a role in successfully leading across contexts. Use references from books and journal articles to support all of the sections of your discussion. Cite your references within your discussion and include the full citations for your references on your Reference page at the end of your document, following the APA Guidelines that I provided you in Doc Sharing. Submit your completed assignment to the appropriate “Assignment Submission Folder”. This assignment is due by 11:30 PM on November 13, 2019. The following rubric will be used to grade your assignment.
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Exceeds Standards |
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Depth and Quality of Discussion I will consider how detailed your discussion is and how far into depth you go. Score:
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Thoroughly discusses and evaluates leadership and influence, providing convincing and supported arguments. (27-30) |
Discusses and evaluates leadership and influence, providing supported arguments, but could have gone into a bit more depth. (24-26) |
Discusses and evaluates leadership and influence, providing supported arguments, but could have gone into much more depth. (21-23) |
Fails to discuss and evaluate leadership and influence, does not provide convincing or supported arguments, and lacks a significant degree of depth. (0-20)
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Reference Support The more reference support you use, the better. The quality of the journals is also important. Score:
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Research from multiple journal articles provided strong support for the discussion. Several of the journal articles used came from top-tier journals. (18-20) |
Research from journal articles provided support for most of the discussion. More references could have been used and more could have come from top-tier journals. (16-17) |
Several parts of the discussion lacked strong support from the research presented in journal articles. Most of the articles came from lower-level journals. (14-15) |
Fails to support the knowledge associated with issue at hand. The few articles that were used came from low-level journals or websites. (0-13)
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Total Score:
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