Management and Leadership

This assignment has three parts: leadership assessment, styles, and research. You will begin by first assessing your own leadership belief system. Next, you will search out real-world examples of CEOs that embrace specific leadership styles. Lastly, you will explore the Purdue Global Library to understand better how the intersection of organizational structures, management processes, and the CEO’s leadership style affects a firm’s financial performance.

The following Course Outcome is assessed in this assignment:

MT497-2: Assess the roles that structure, management, and leadership play in organizational performance.

Part 1: Leadership Assessment

Start by taking the “Leadership Beliefs” assessment located at the beginning of Chapter 10 of Daft (2021). This assessment will help illuminate your personal beliefs about the role of a leader and their best fit based on a specific type of organization design.

Checklist:

Provide your “position-based leadership beliefs” score: P = ____ What are the implications of your score?
Provide your “nonhierarchical leadership beliefs” score: N = ____ What are the implications of your score?
Assess how these scores make you more self-aware as an employee moving to a different organization with a new supervisor.
Part 2: CEOs and Leadership Style

In part two of this assignment, you will search the Internet for four real-world examples of current CEOs that are well-known for embracing specific leadership approaches. You will have a total of four CEOs.

Checklist:

Provide four current CEOS that are well-known for embracing specific leadership styles.
Assess how they demonstrate the leadership style you have identified.
Determine what has changed in organizations’ leadership needs and how that has influenced preferred leadership styles between 2010 and now.
Evaluate how the management of the workforce has changed as internal company structure has changed from 2010 onwards.
Why do you think these changes have taken place? Justify your response.

Part 3: Peer-Reviewed Articles

Search the Purdue Global Library for recent peer-reviewed articles (no older than 5 years) that analyze the four contemporary leadership styles (Level 5, Servant, Authentic, Interactive), organizational structures, and firm financial performance.

Respond to the following items.

Checklist:

Use any of your real-world CEOs as an example to answer the following questions:

Evaluate how the intersection of organizational structures, management processes, and the CEO’s leadership style affects a firm’s financial performance.
Decide if you think leadership is more influential or less influential in today’s flatter, team-based organization. Defend your answer.
Assess industry leadership’s impact on the overall move toward virtual organizations.
Due to an increase in recent workforce diversity, determine which leadership styles are better suited to maximize employee satisfaction and workplace productivity.
Decide what leadership styles are a better fit for one organizational structure versus another.
Justify whether you think a CEO who has been a servant leader all of their career can change to a Level 5 leadership style. If so, how? Provide an example. Is this a common phenomenon?
Evaluate where you see your leadership trajectory heading over the next 5 to 10 years. Justify your answer.

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