Leadership (S)

Leadership Traits SLP 1

Please read the following articles and complete the assignment based on the instructions below:

Breevaart, K., & de Vries Reinout, E. (2019;2021).  Followers’ HEXACO personality traits and preference for charismatic, relationship-oriented, and task-oriented leadership .  Journal of Business and Psychology, 36(2), 253-265. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-019-09671-6.

Smith, J. L. (2021). Leadership traits.  Quality, 60(13), 14. 

Tapia, A. T., & Polonskaia, A. (2020). Introduction. Defining the inclusive leader. In the 5 disciplines of inclusive leaders: unleashing the power of all of us. Berrett-Koehler.

For the Session Long Project, you will be applying the concepts in the background materials to your own personal experiences in the workplace. For this first SLP 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 required background materials. Carefully reflect on your supervisor’s traits, behaviors, and leadership styles. Then write a  2- to 3-page paper (excluding title page and References Page) to  include 2 scholarly sources from the required and optional readings list 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 leadership traits do you see between yourself, your coworkers, and your supervisor? Refer to specific leadership traits discussed in the required Smith (2021) article.

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

1. Your SLP should be  2 - 3 pages in length (not including title and reference pages). This means the submission must be at least 2 full pages. It must include an introduction below the paper’s title prior to the answer to the first assignment question and a Conclusion on the last page before the References list page. There should be nothing in the top left corner of the paper and only a page number in the top right corner of all pages.

2. Be sure to cite and reference (using APA Style) a  minimum of 2 scholarly sources listed in the Course Materials and Bibliography (Module 1 Required and Optional Reading List), in the Module 1 Background Page: Required and Optional Readings.

3. Include both a reference page and in-text citations.