Psychological Foundation of Leadership
Psychological Foundation of Leadership
Question 1
Reflecting upon an organizational experience, please relate your assessment of a leader who demonstrated high competence in one of the four foundations but weakness in at least one other. Provide a prescriptive remedy for improvement.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Question 2
Identify a leader with significant growth opportunities. Share how their influence did not result in either commitment, compliance, or resistance. Please provide supporting examples. If you have never had a leader, you may be hypothetical in your response. Provide some advice you would give this leader to help them improve.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Question 3
Reflect upon a situation in your workplace or other organization where effective collaboration was absent during a challenging time for leadership. What was the root cause? Did the leader demonstrate behaviors conducive toward building a shared vision for organizational success? Explain.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Question 4
Reflect upon how you would use either Fiedler’s theory, the path-goal theory, or the normative decision model in a newly assigned leadership role, where you have been a supervisor for 5 years and progressed through promotions within the company. Several of your peers hoped to be selected for the position; you notice a sense of indifference from them as you will now directly supervise them. Please discuss how you would assess the environment of the workplace to decide which theory to apply.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Question 5
As we are exploring the dimensions of charismatic and transformational leadership, reflect on whether you believe these styles cognitively develop or if you believe they are directly a function of genetic traits. Please select your position, and justify with at least two examples.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Question 6
Please reflect upon a leader, either from experience or from research, who created a learning organization. Examples to consider are Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Identify leadership characteristics that you believe are essential in driving a learning organization toward success, and support your selection.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Question 7
A leader needs to have followers in order to succeed. Please identify two characteristics you could implement as a leader to mold followers into a high-performing team. Then, share an experience where you observed a leader in any capacity with these skills.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Question 8
Reflect on how the concepts in this course can be applied to real-world situations and increase your chances of career or life success.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
