Question Description

Final Project

For your Final Project, you will further explore your own leadership profile using the perspectives, theories, and approaches covered in this course. You also will evaluate your strengths, challenges, and limitations in the areas of self-management, cognitive adeptness, interpersonal adeptness, organizational acumen, and global leadership competency. Finally, you will explain how you plan to further develop yourself as an effective leader in your current profession or in a profession that is of interest to you.

Your Final Project will be presented in the following way:

• A 10- to 12-page (not including references, title page, or abstract), double-spaced, APA-formatted paper .

All Final Projects must include:

• An analysis of your leadership profile using:
• • Psychological Perspectives of Leadership and Leadership Theories – Be sure to explain how specific perspectives of leadership and leadership theories help to explain your leadership profile.
  • Leadership Approaches (Trait, Skill, Style, and Situation) – Be sure to include descriptions of traits and skills you possess, your leadership behaviors and style, and professional situations in which you might excel and might be challenged. (just pick a trait or skill that you choose, i dont care which it is)
• An evaluation of your strengths, challenges, and limitations in the following areas:
• • Self-management
  • Cognitive Adeptness
  • Interpersonal Adeptness
  • Organizational Acumen
  • Global Leadership Competency
• An analysis of how you might develop yourself as a leader. Be sure to include descriptions of specific strategies you might use and explain how you might use them to expand or enhance your effectiveness as a leader.
• An explanation of how you might present yourself as a leader to a future employer in your current profession or in a profession that is of interest to you.
• An analysis of your potential effectiveness as a leader in your current profession or in a profession that is of interest to you.

Although the Final Project paper is not to be submitted until Week 11, Day 7, you should become familiar with the project requirements and have them in mind as you proceed through the course.

The Final Project will be evaluated according to all four indicators in the Application Assignment and Final Project Writing Rubric, located in the Course Info area. Be sure that the Final Project is written using APA format.

Information on scholarly writing may be found in the APA Manual,

Here are some references (can use outside ones too)

Please be APA format with plenty of citations throughout

SOURCES:

Course Text: Northouse, P. G. (2019). Leadership: Theory and practice (8th ed.). Thousand Oaks: CA: Sage Publications

• Article: Hogan, R., & Kaiser, R. B. (2005). What we know about leadership. Review of General Psychology, 9(2), 169-180.
  Use the PsycARTICLES database, and search using the article’s Accession Number: gpr-9-2-169
• Article: Hogg, M. A. (2001). A social identity theory of leadership. Personality & Social Psychology Review, 5(3), 184-200.
  Use the Academic Search Premier database, and search using the article’s Accession Number: 4802751
• Article: Schott, R. L. (1992). Abraham Maslow, humanistic psychology and organization leadership: A Jungian perspective. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 32(1), 106-120.
• Article: Fielder, F. E. (1972). How do you make leaders more effective? Organizational Dynamics, 1(2), 2-18.
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• Article: Judge, T. A., Ilies, R., Bono, J. E., & Gerhardt, M. W. (2002). Personality and leadership: A qualitative and quantitative review.Journal of Applied Psychology, 87(4), 765-780.
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• Article: Kirkpatrick, S. A., & Locke, E. A. (1991). Leadership: Do traits matter? Academy of Management Executive, 5(2), 48-60.
  Use the Business Source Premier database, and search using the article’s Accession Number: 4274679
• Article: Foti, R. J., & Hauenstein, N. M. A. (2007). Pattern and variable approaches in leadership emergence and effectiveness. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92(2), 347-355.
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• Article: Lundstedt, S. (1965). Administrative leadership and use of social power. Public Administration Review, 25(2), 156-160.
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• Article: Riggio, R. E., Riggio, H. R., Salinas, C., & Cole, E. J. (2003). The role of social and emotional communication skills in leader emergence and effectiveness. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 7(2), 83-103.
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• Article: Salancik, G. R., & Pfeffer, J. (1977). Who gets power?And how they hold on to it: A strategic-contingency model of power.Organizational Dynamics, 5(3), 3-21.
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• Article: Hernandez, J. S., & Varkey, P. (2008). Vertical versus lateral thinking. Physician Executive, 34(3), 26-28.
  Use the Business Source Premier database, and search using the article’s Accession Number: 31961952
• Article: Maitlis, S. (2005). The social processes of organizational sensemaking. Academy of Management Journal, 48(1), 21-49.
  Use the Business Source Premier database, and search using the article’s Accession Number: 15993111
• Article: Weick, K. E., Sutcliffe, K. M., & Obstfeld, D. (2005). Organizing and the process of sense making. Organization Science, 16(4), 409-421.
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• Article: Farrington, E.L. (2008). Use Emotional Intelligence to improve your work. Women in Higher Education,17(6), 19-20.
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• Article: Goleman, D. (2004). What makes a leader? Harvard Business Review, 82(1), 82-91.
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• Article: Perks, J. (2008). How to”develop emotional intelligence. People Management, 14(9), 42.
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• Article: Ruderman, M. N., Hannum, K., Leslie, J. B., & Steed, J. L. (2001). Making the connection: Leadership skills and emotional intelligence. Retrieved on October 17, 2008, from http://media.wiley.com/assets/51/46/jrnls_jb_lia_21_5_ruderman.pdf
• Article: Fitzgerald, S. P., Murrell, K. L., & Miller, M. G. (2003). Appreciative inquiry: Accentuating the positive. Business Strategy Review, 14(1), 5-7.
  Use the Business Source Premier database, and search using the article’s Accession Number: 9303287
• Article: Hasler, M. G. (2005). Leadership development and organizational culture: Which comes first? Retrieved October 26, 2008, fromhttp://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED492357.pdf
• Article: Bunker, K. A., Kram, K. E., & Ting, S. (2002). The young and the clueless. Harvard Business Review, 80(12), 80-87.
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• Article: Finkelstein, S. (2003). 7 habits of spectacularly unsuccessful executives. Fast Company, 72, 84-89.
  Use the Business Source Premier database, and search using the article’s Accession Number: 9954567
• Article: Hogan, R., & Kaiser, R. B. (2005). What we know about leadership. Review of General Psychology, 9(2), 169-180.
  Use the PsycARTICLES database, and search using the article’s Accession Number: gpr-9-2-169
• Article: Kramer, R. M. (2003). The harder they fall. Harvard Business Review, 81(10), 58-66.
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