Paper Components:
You will need to begin by formulating YOUR definition of management. Follow this with your definition of leadership. In further defining the concept of leadership, you will need to identify what you believe EFFECTIVE and INEFFECTIVE management AND leadership are. What traits, qualities, characteristics, and behaviors exist in a leader who is indeed effective in influencing a group to achieve organizational goals? What factors enable a manager and/or leader to be effective? Are all effective leaders effective in terms of their ability to influence others towards the attainment of organizational goals? What factors enable a manager and/or leader to be ineffective? You should begin researching this part of your paper realizing that leadership is NOT just another name for management. Also consider is it possible for an individual to be an effective leader who utilizes bad traits, qualities, characteristics, and behaviors? What impact does bad leadership have on what people do in an organization? What would make a trait or characteristic of a manager or leader be bad? What factors enable a manager or leader to be bad and ineffective?
After you have defined and summarized the above areas, you will need to do a comparison and contrast on the impact of management and leadership on SIX of the following organizational behavior topic areas. Choose the six you will study, define the terms, and provide an analysis discussion of the impact EFFECTIVE and INEFFECTIVE management - and - EFFECTIVE and INEFFECTIVE leadership have on your chosen organizational behavior considerations. YOU MUST INCLUDE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES FROM YOUR WORK EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD WITH YOUR SIX TOPICS.
- Interpersonal Communication
- Motivation
- Learning
- Attitudes and Perception
- Change Processes
- Conflict
- Trust
- Work and Job Design
- Work Stress
- Organizational Culture
- Mental Work Environment
- Quality of Work Life
- Job Satisfaction
- Groups & the Informal Organization
- Employee Engagement
- Employee Morale
- Organizational Commitment
- Anxiety
- Workplace Emotions
- Power and Influence
- Negotiation
- Organizational Change
Please know that integrating personal examples into your paper is expected. The intentions of this research are for you to further understand the impact of management and coworkers on an individual's behavior in the workplace, and the reciprocal relationship that exists amongst the human element in the workplace.
- Include a cover page with your paper. Your final paper will be 8-10 pagedouble-spaced.Margins should be 1-inch with a 12-point font.Provide headings for each phase of the paper and subheadings for the six organizational behavior concepts discussed.As a target, you will have approximately one to two pages of text per organizational behavior topic area chosen in addition to your definitions and discussions of managerial and leadership influence in the workplace.Each section needs to include more than one paragraph.
- You need a List of Works Researched and Cited as the last page of your paper.You also need parenthetical citations (McShane, 112) inside the paper where you reference an author's writings or paraphrase, etc. Your paper, however, needs to be more than just one huge citation.This listing will include a list of sources used, including all website addresses.