Saintleo MBA595 Leadership Project Latest 2019 April Question # 00601108 Subject: Education Due on: 05/09/2019 Posted On: 05/09/2019 11:18 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.7/5

MBA595 Current Issues in Leadership

Leadership Project

MBA 595 –
Leadership Project Guidelines

The
Leadership Project requires each student to lead a group of people (friends,
workers, fellow workers,

fellow club
members, etc.) in a project or activity that they would not normally undertake.
The only rules of

the project
are: (1) students must not tell their friends or co-workers that they are doing
it for a class, and

(2) it
should take at least three weeks of contact to complete. The Leadership Project
consists of two

parts, a
proposal for the Project due in Module 2, and a Final 10-page Project Paper due
in Module 7.

Leadership
Project Proposal (due by the conclusion of Module 2)

The
proposal is due by the conclusion of Module 2; however, you should begin
working on it during

Module 1 as
it will require you to conduct initial research on your chosen topic.
Specifically, you must

complete
the steps below (by the end of Module 2):

1. Read the
Journal of Management Education article titled “Personal Leadership Conundrum”

(referenced
in the Module). This article is available through the Saint Leo online library.
(See the syllabus

and the
link in the course Resources area for more information about accessing the
online library).

2. Identify
the leadership conundrum you will look into as you lead the group (what
personal issues do

you need to
address, etc.) . State it in the first person and in the form of a question.
See examples of

conundrum
topics in the Recommendations section below.

3. Explain
why you have chosen this conundrum: Why is it of interest to you? How does it
relate

to your
experiences? How does it relate to who you are? In other words, what about
yourself

and your
experience are motivating you to seek the answer to this conundrum?

4. Create a
bibliography of at least two peer-reviewed, academic journal articles that deal
with the

conundrum
(see below the Recommendations section for examples of journals that qualify as
academic

and peer
reviewed), at least two periodical articles (newspaper, magazine, website,
etc.), and at least

two books,
stories, myths, parables, movies, poems, or songs that will help you better

understand
and gain insight into your conundrum.

5. Identify
at least two leaders you will interview to gain their insights into your
conundrum and

explain why
you have chosen them to interview regarding your conundrum as you work on
guiding your

group.
Provide the title and contact information for each leader.

6. List
between five and seven interview questions you will ask to each leader (the
questions

should be
the same or at least partially the same). The questions should be directly
related to

the
personal conundrum that you are trying to solve in leading the group.

7. For this
proposal (and the Final Leadership Paper), you will use the American
Psychological

Association
(APA) formatting guidelines. If you have any questions concerning proper
citation

procedures,
then ask the instructor prior to submitting your work.

8. Submit
the completed Project Proposal to the Dropbox no later than Sunday 11:59 PM

EST/EDT of
Module 2; this Dropbox basket is linked to Turnitin and the Final

Leadership
Project Paper is also (due by the conclusion of Module 7).

Students
should submit the Final Leadership Project Paper in APA-style, 10-pages, that
includes the

following
sections (please include the questions):

1. An
introduction of what your leadership project encompassed (who did you lead,
what did you

lead them
on, etc?).

2. What
your particular “leadership conundrum” was all about (what did the issue focus
upon,

details,etc.)?

3. A
discussion of what the leadership style you used is all about in dealing with
the group and

why you
think that was the style you used (document and relate to the literature out
there)?

4. How did
you deal with your particular conundrum in leading the group (list references
and

ideas that
might relate to how you handled it)? Did the ideas you gained from the
interviews

help? Did
fixing the conundrum help lead the group or not?

5. A
discussion of available data regarding whether the leadership approach you used
worked or

not (any
studies of it from research?).

6. A
discussion of how successful the project was and how you might have lead the
project

more
effectively.

7. A
discussion of what still needs to be learned about the style you used (studies
that might

help, or
other uses of it that still need to be explored).

8. A
summary of all of the above at the end of the paper.

9. A
bibliography (not included as part of the 10-page requirement).

Again, the
Final Leadership Project Paper should be submitted to the Dropbox no later than
Sunday

11:59
PMEST/EDT of Module 7. (This Dropbox basket is linked to Turnitin).

Recommendations

The
following are recommendations to consider as you complete your project:

1. When
necessary, please seek out advice from your instructor. Although you are
responsible

for your
learning, the instructor is available to help you make this assignment
meaningful and

successful.

2. You
should choose a conundrum of your own interest. In the past, students have
explored

such
specific conundrums as:

a. “How do
I balance confidence and humility to be an effective leader?”

b. “How do
I lead, influence, and work with negative people?”

c. “How do
I lead people who don’t believe I should be doing the leading?”

d. “How
will I be able to effectively lead those who have negative stereotypes of
working

for/or with
females?”

e. “How do
I institute change in a group while maintaining high standards?”

f. “How do
I lead older, more experienced people?”

g. “How can
I be a role model of hard work and dedication and also

balance
work and non-work domains?”

3. There
are numerous academic journals on management, leadership, psychology,
sociology,

philosophy,
education, and religion available through the library. Below are a number of

academic
management journal titles:

a. Academy
of Management Journal

b. Academy
of Management Review

c.
Leadership

d.
Leadership Quarterly

e.
Leadership and Organizational Development Journal

f.
Organization

g.
International Journal of Management

h.
International Journal of Leadership Studies

i. Journal
of Leadership and Organizational Studies

j. Journal
of Management Inquiry

k. Journal
of Organizational Behavior

l. Journal
of Management and Organization

m. Journal
of Management Education

4. There
are, of course, many different leadership styles you can use in completing your
project (refer to

your text
and/or other sources) and there are, of course, a number of different project
you can lead

people
on—some of the ones that have been done in previous classes are (organizing an
office area,

helping
team members to lose weight, leading a group in donating time at a Red Cross or
other social

service
agency, organizing a group to run a race for a particular benefit, organizing a
group to take a

train ride
to a particular part of the US or elsewhere, etc.).

5. Please
schedule all interviews as early as possible and remember to respect the time
of those

leaders you
interview. Make sure you are prompt, courteous, formal, and well-prepared
(write out

your
questions before the interview). You will be required to include an appendix
which

summarizes
the key points of the interviews as part of your Final Paper