MGT7115 WEEK ONE
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Week 1
Who is a leader? An exhaustive answer to this question alone might require an entire course to pursue. Is a leader best understood as a position? A person? An action? A series of actions? The answer is all of the above—and more!
This week, you will begin tracing the development of leadership theories that give us insight into answering the question: Who is a leader? For example, you will begin evaluating the trait perspective of leadership.
As part of your inquiry, you will analyze the differences between leadership and management. Both functions are critical, but each requires different skill sets. For example, management emphasizes planning, organizing, controlling, and coordinating resources. Leadership emphasizes motivating and influencing people.
As you conduct your study, look for ways to assess how we might distinguish the internal dynamics of who a leader is from the external dynamics of what a leader does.
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- This week covers the difference between leadership and management.
- This week covers trait and skills approaches to leadership.
- This week covers style and situational approaches to leadership.
- This week covers transformational and servant leadership.
- This week covers psychodynamic, ethical, and change dimensions of leadership.
Your Learning Objectives for the Week:
- Critically evaluate leadership concepts to meet the demands of tomorrow’s complex organizations.
- Analyze major theories of and approaches to organizational leadership in the literature.
List of Topics and Sub-Modules for Week 1
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Before beginning work on this discussion forum, please review the link Doing Discussion Questions Right, the expanded grading rubric for the forum, and any specific instructions for this topic.
From the bulleted list below, select one topic for which you will lead the discussion in the forum this week. Early in the week, reserve your selected topic by posting your response (reservation post) to the Discussion Area, identifying your topic in the subject line. By the due date assigned, research your topic and start a scholarly conversation as you respond with your initial or primary post to your own reservation post in the Discussion Area. Make sure your response does not duplicate your classmates’ responses.
- Analyze the difference between the terms leader, leadership, manager, and management. How does distinguishing between the terms provide researcher and practitioner benefit?
- Compare the inquiries who a leader “is” and what a leader “does.” How does distinguishing the categories aid researchers and practitioners?
- Assess the changes in the organizational environment (e.g., context in which most organizations operate) that have occurred over the past few decades. How has the changing environment affected the practice of leadership?
- Evaluate the differences between these two statements: Leaders create vision. Leaders articulate vision. What are the implications for the practice of leadership?
As the beginning of a scholarly conversation, your initial post should be:
- Succinct—no more than 500 words.
- Provocative—use concepts and combinations of concepts from the readings to propose relationships, causes, and/or consequences that inspire others to engage (inquire, learn). In other words, take a scholarly stand.
- Supported—scholarly conversations are more than opinions. Ideas, statements, and conclusions are supported by clear research and citations from course materials as well as other credible, peer-reviewed resources.
For grading:
- The reservation post and the initial post are assessed in the rubric line item “Quality of initial posting.”
- Neither the reservation post nor the initial post count toward days of participation.
- Follow-up posts made throughout the week to your colleagues and professor will apply to participation points in the rubric.
- All posts will be assessed for writing mechanics and information literacy. Be sure to review the expanded rubric for more details on grading criteria.
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Overview
For this course, you will have a project that includes the written assignments in Weeks 1, 3, and 5. The Week 3 and Week 5 assignments are considered major assignments, which combined are worth almost half of the total course points. It will likely take you more than one week to complete the Week 3 and Week 5 major assignments, so begin working on those tasks sooner rather than later.
Project Summary:
Your course project will result in distinct deliverables for the Week 3 and Week 5 major assignments. Your Week 3 paper will provide a starter version of a comprehensive examination (for your DBA program) study document. Your Week 5 paper will provide a leadership development approach for an organization of your choice. For Week 1, you will begin summarizing the Week 3 and Week 5 work as well as looking for connections between the deliverables.
Week 1: Introductory Summary
Week 3: Comprehensive Exam Prep
- Looking ahead in your DBA program, the final step in the course sequence is a comprehensive exam. Students must successfully pass the comprehensive exam before moving on to the dissertation phase.
- Your preparation for the comprehensive exam should have already started via your study in previous courses, self-documentation of your learning, and completion of the reflection journals with your mentor.
For the Week 3 paper, you will provide an annotated outline that:
- Segments the OB field into at least three broad categories. You may have more than three categories, but the minimum for this assignment is three. For example:
- Individual
- Group/Team
- Organizational/Environmental
- Provides a set of core topics beneath each of the broad categories. At this point in your doctoral development, you must have at least five core topics for each category (thus, a minimum of fifteen total). You may have more than five topics for each category (and eventually you will in your preparation for the exam!) but the minimum for this assignment is five topics for each of your categories (or at least a total of fifteen topics if you have more than three categories).
- Connects one annotated resource (key author—with a brief description or bullet points of important points the author makes about the topic) for your fifteen core topics. You may provide more than one resource per topic, but you must have at least one resource for a minimum of fifteen topics.
Week 5: Leadership Development and Succession
- For the Week 5 paper, you will design a leadership development program for an organization of your choice.
- The leadership development program will include:
- A general discussion of leadership (e.g., what is it?)
- Selection of an approach (e.g., style or theory) to leadership that you wish to build or replicate throughout the organization
- Summary of a four-module development plan for infusing your selected leadership approach in the organization
- Proposal of a leadership succession perspective for the organization
Your Week 1 Tasks:
- Introductory Summary (1–2 pages)
- Although your course project has two distinct deliverables (comprehensive exam document in Week 3 and a leadership development and succession plan in Week 5), as a doctoral-level scholar, you should be able to synthesize connections between the two topics and activities.
- Synthesize a 1- to 2-page summary of how the study of OB and preparation of a comprehensive preparation document can inform and enhance your design and delivery of a leadership development and succession plan. Support your synthesis with research.
- Part 1: Comprehensive Exam Prep Document: First Thoughts (1–2 pages)
- Defend an organizational motif or schema that helps break down the field of OB into smaller units (broad categories) for study (e.g., individual, group/team, organizational/environmental). Your schema must have at least three broad categories. Be sure to define each element of your schema.
- Part 2: Leadership Development and Succession Plan: A Beginning (1–2 pages)
- Select an organization for your study. The organization can be one you are currently part of, one you used to be part of, one you research, or even a hypothetical organization.
- Summarize key details about the organization. What is it? What does it do? How would you describe its structure? How would you describe its culture? What issues is the organization currently experiencing that may be related to leadership problems? How does the organization currently develop leaders and plan for succession?
Submission Details:
- Complete your analysis in a 5–6-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
- Name the document SU_MGT7115_W1_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
- Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.
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