This artifact is the 2nd part of your Competency 5 Post Test. I am including it in the Competency 1 folder so you can have access to it from the very beginning of your course. The artifact calls for you to research leadership theories. Select an organization that is having problems. You are going to base your approach to research the problem(s) from one of the leadership theories in your Organizational Behavior book. Chapter 12 covers those theories and some of the other chapters touch on a few others not explored in Chapter 12. Select a theory and explore the problem using the lens provided by that theory. For instance if there was a theory that posited that people who are Dallas Cowboy fans tend to be prone to a higher intellect and found to be better managers in non-profit organizations. You find an organization in McAllen named La Pachanga Club. You find that the organization was doing really well at the start of the pandemic. Their mission was to bring back the carne asada (cookout parties) as they almost went extinct when the pandemic was in full force. The organization had an infusion of donations since people wanted the pachanga brought back. Yet the organization quickly started floundering financially. The Executive Director, you find, is a Dallas Cowboy fan so you see this as a perfect opportunity to study the Dallas Cowboy Fan leadership theory. You write the research question, “Why is La Pachanga Club in financial trouble if a Dallas Cowboy fan is the executive director?”. You write a thesis stating, “There is a direct correlation between managers that are Dallas Cowboy fans and the success of the organizations they manage.”
As you see an organization experiencing a problem was picked. A leadership theory was used to investigate the issue. A research thesis was written. That thesis was used to direct the research.
I want you to do the same. Pick an organization, pick a theory, and conduct your research using that theory as the lens for your investigation. Make sure that the paper you write is an APA-style paper. The body of that paper should be a minimum of six pages. That does not include the cover page, abstract, or reference page. You can only use peer-reviewed academic journal articles. The paper is due by the end of the term. It is part of your Competency 5 Post Test so you will have three attempts. As I said I put this in your Comp I folder so you could have all term to write it. Please do not procrastinate and wait until the last couple of weeks because you will be putting unnecessary pressure on yourself. Good luck with your research this term!
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