Self-Confidence and Leadership

Week 4 Course Project – Leadership Literature Review
TOPIC: Self-Confidence and Leadership
Recall from Week 1:
This course project is designed to broaden your exposure to critical leadership paradigms through independent research.
A literature review is an opportunity for you, as the researcher, to explore and draw upon research that exists related to your research topic. It allows you to summarize key findings, building an argument for why your research topic is important and relevant to our study of leadership. This is the goal of your literature review.
Specific benefits of writing a literature review include:
Learning a lot about your research topic- TOPIC: Self-Confidence and Leadership
Identifying why your research topic is relevant to the study of leadership
Seeing how other researchers have studied the topic and what research designs/methodologies may be useful
Comparing and contrasting different points of view
To begin your literature review, you will need to spend some time at the Lewis University library. This can be accomplished in person (if you live locally) or via the internet (go to the Lewis University home page and then click the link to Academics).
Either way, if you struggle to find the books, journals, or online databases you need, please contact a reference librarian. In fact, working with a reference librarian (at least once) is highly recommended.
In terms of expectations, the literature review for this assignment has two options (you choose one of them).

Paper:
Be approximately 6 pages in length (excluding title page and reference page)
Cite approximately 6 sources from professional, peer-reviewed journals
Cite your course textbooks, as appropriate for your topic
In terms of the structure for the paper:
Begin by introducing/defining the topic
Summarize and analyze current research related to the topic
Why is this topic relevant to the study of leadership?
How may this leadership approach be applied or used in organizations?
What are the positive outcomes/benefits of using this leadership approach?
Draw conclusions about the findings in the literature
Is there agreement on how/why this leadership approach is valuable?
Do researchers agree on its positive impact?
Are there any downfalls or criticisms of this leadership approach?
Synthesize and organize relevant research findings in a meaningful way
Describe trends and themes in the research
Show how research on the topic has changed over time
Compare/contrast different points of view on the topic
Provide examples of leaders and/or organizations that use this approach to leadership
Requirements for this assignment:
The length of this assignment should be 6 pages (excluding title and reference page) for the paper
Use subheadings so the reader can easily follow your review
Use APA format is required for this assignment (title page, reference page, properly formatted citations, double spacing, etc.)
Course text(s), lecture notes and other course material/readings should be cited
4-6 outside sources (journal/research articles, books, etc.) should be used for this assignment
REVIEW: EXAMPLE PAPER-
See Week 4 for an exemplar Literature Review paper posted in class

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