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. a Final 10-page Project Paper.

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 "leadership conundrum" was all about (what did the issue focus upon, details.)?

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

3. There are numerous academic journals on management, leadership, psychology, sociology, philosophy, education, and religion available through the library. Below are several 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

• Key terms and concept to use: big five personality traits, cognitive skills, competencies, conceptual skills, derailed careers, emotional intelligence, emotional maturity, emotional stability, interpersonal skills, locus of control orientation, needs for achievement, needs for affiliation, need of power, personalized power, self-awareness, self-confidence, social intelligence, socialized power orientation, technical skills, House's Path Goal Theory (1971)

• Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership Theory (1977)

• Kerr and Jermier's Leadership Substitute Ideas (1978)

• Yukl's Multiple-Linkage Model (1989)

• Fiedler and Garcia's Cognitive Resource Theory (1987

• The conundrum: How do I convey confidence, self-assurance, and passion when leading a group?-

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.).

You will be required to include an appendix which summarizes the key points of the interviews as part of your Final Paper
you must interview (pretend) two people theirs names is Ms. Parker who training facilitators to lead programs and the second person is Mr. Hood who is general manager at a restaurant. Make references to the throughout the paper as if you interview these people.