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Assignment 2: Leadership and Teams
In your Module 4 literature review, you contrasted various leadership approaches and then chose the approach that would be most effective for your organization.
- Using the research from your literature review, examine how your chosen approach could impact your organization's leaders' ability to exert influence on others and thereby impacting team effectiveness.
- Explain how the leaders' leadership approach could impact team member relationships and their cohesion.
- Lastly, using a leadership approach, devise a plan that will improve team effectiveness in your organization over the next 3 to 6 months. Be sure to include the key stakeholders who are directly impacted by the implementation of the plan.
Your final product will be a Word document, approximately 4–5 pages long, utilizing approximately 2–3 scholarly sources.
Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
By the due date assigned, deliver your assignment to the Submissions Area.
WA Grading Criteria:
CO: 1, 3, 5
| Assignment Components | Maximum Points |
Examine how your chosen theory can impact your organization's leaders' ability to exert influence on others thereby impacting team effectiveness. | 16 |
| Explain how their leadership approach may impact team member relationships and their cohesion. CO: 3 | 12 |
| Describe how it could potentially lead to negative or positive intergroup attitudes. CO: 3 | 12 |
Using your chosen leadership theory, devise a plan that will improve team effectiveness in your organization over the next 3 to 6 months. | 12 |
| Academic Writing | |
Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e. APA); and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. | 8 |
| Total: | 60 |
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Running head: LEADERSHIP AND TEAMS
Leadership and Teams
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LEADERSHIP AND TEAMS
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Introduction
There are various leadership approaches that can be used by a leader to achieve success
in an organization. The chosen approach in this module was the situational leadership approach.
This approach as stated earlier is adjusted based on the current situation or environment that the
leader and the followers are in. The leader, therefore, has to choose the leadership style that is
most effective in that situation. This approach is therefore heavily dependent on the motivation
and the willingness of the employees to complete a particular task. The situational leadership
approach, therefore, has a direct impact on the influence that the leader has on his followers
which also impacts the team effectiveness. This essay, therefore, describes how the situational
leadership approach is used to improve the team effectiveness in an organization.
How the chosen theory can impact your organization's leaders' ability to exert influence on
others thereby impacting team effectiveness
A leader is a person who impacts the culture, values, and goals of an organization. It is,
therefore, the role of the leader to guide all the employees towards achieving a certain set goal.
Following the situational leadership approach, the leaders have the flexibility of choosing the
leadership style that they see fit on all the employees. This approach is a tested approach that has
produced positive results for the most organization. It focuses on four basic leadership styles
which are telling, selling, participating and delegating. Each of these leadership styles is effective
in different situations. The leader should be able to analyze every situation on the basis of; task
behavior, relationship behavior, and follower readiness. Task behavior refers to the direction and
the guidance that a leader s...
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