Critical Thinking: Leadership
For this assignment, analyze and discuss your personal leadership style. Based on your experiences, current readings, work experience, education, and use of self-assessment instruments describe what you think your personal leadership styles are. Include the following in your response:
Describe how you prefer to lead.
Discuss the setting in which you can apply or have applied this type of leadership.
How has the use of these styles of leadership helped or hindered you in the past?
Explain how you can improve your leadership.
Directions:
Write a three-part essay (i.e., an essay that includes an introduction paragraph, the essay’s body, and a conclusion paragraph) that addresses the assignment’s guide questions. Do not address the questions using a question and answer format.
Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:
Be three to five pages in length, which does not include the title page, abstract or required reference page, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.
Support your submission with course material concepts, principles and theories from the textbook and at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles unless the assignment calls for more.
Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.
Required
Chapters 2, 3, & 4 in Leadership: Theory and Practice ( attached)
MindTools. (n.d.). What’s your leadership style: Learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the way you like to lead. 28 points in quiz (link: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/leadership-style-quiz.htm)
Rowold, J., & Borgman, L. (2014). Interpersonal affect and the assessment of and interrelationship between leadership constructs. Leadership, 10, 308–325. attached
Varshney, D. (2015). A leadership assessment center for graduate students: Case of Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Business and Management, 10(4), 249-258. (attached)
Ramthun, A. J., & Matkin, G. S. (2014). Leading dangerously: A case study of military teams and shared leadership in dangerous environments. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 21, 244–256. (attached)
