The Leadership Challenge (Kouzes & Posner) has been a recognized text on organizational leadership for over twenty-five years. The authors have developed their ‘Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership’ based on research in organizations around the world, with the purpose of guiding the development of current and future leaders. Following the text as well as the Leadership Challenge Workbook, you are required to critically examine one of the ‘five practices’ and create a pathway to the application of a particular practice or several practices to your real work (leadership, life) setting.
To analyze and critique one of the five practices, you need to dissect the authors’ argument and supporting evidence as to its significance in understanding the leadership process using the course textbooks, lectures and discussions, and supplemental readings from outside sources. The requirements for the paper are as follows:
• Summarize one of the five leadership ‘practices’ and discuss the author’s argument in support of that practice in the leadership process.
• Discuss the significance of the specific leadership practice within the context of all five practices.
• Discuss specific leadership theories that lend support to the practice as a factor in the leadership process.
• Critique the specific leadership theories with a focus on discussing your agreement or disagreement with the theory and the basis for your opinion.
• Discuss the conclusions from your analysis and critique, with a focus on the lessons learned about the theory and practice of organizational leadership in a variety of organizational settings.
The paper must be 5 pages (maximum), excluding the cover page and references.
> A good amount of citation usage is expected. 12+
> Use a majority of scholarly articles as your sources, please.
> The instructions mention applying the practice(s) to my real work context. I work for a Private University in the Caribbean and I take on a leadership role in the company. If you need more info on this you can just contact me.
> When you decide on what leadership theory/theories you want to use to answer the third part of the task, let me know so I can liaise with my lecturer if they are good options.
> Of course, no plagiarism.
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