Project For the course Project assignment, you need to select a transformational leader in a fortune 500 company or another area of professional interest. You will create a profile of him/her as a model of a transformational leader capable of effectively implementing organizational change
Your focus throughout must be on the leader’s leadership traits and how this supports his/her transformational leadership abilities. Other areas of focus should be on his/her ability to build trust, motivate and support those employees falling under his/her stewardship. Your analysis must be backed up by current and relevant literature (minimum of 5 references from class readings and 5 references from additional literature).
Williams R,Jr, Raffo DM, Clark LA. Charisma as an attribute of transformational leaders: What about credibility? The Journal of Management Development. 2018;37(6):512-524.
Mencl J, Wefald AJ, van Ittersum KW. Transformational leader attributes: Interpersonal skills, engagement, and well-being. Leadership & Organization Development Journal. 2016;37(5):635-657.
Millissa F.Y. Cheung, Chi-Sum Wong. Transformational leadership, leader support, and employee creativity. Leadership & Organization Development Journal. 2011;32(7):656-672.
Schyns B, Sczesny S. Leadership attributes valence in self-concept and occupational self-efficacy. Career Development International. 2010;15(1):78-92.
Mencl J, Wefald AJ, van Ittersum KW. Transformational leader attributes: Interpersonal skills, engagement, and well-being. Leadership & Organization Development Journal. 2016;37(5):635-657.
Kegan, Robert and Lisa Lahey. “The Real Reason People Won’t Change”, Harvard Business Review, November 2001. (9pp)
Kotter, John and Leonard Schlesinger, “Choosing Strategies for Change” Harvard Business Review, March-April 1979. (10pp)
Tucker BA, Russell RF. The influence of the transformational leader. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies. 2004;10(4):103-111.https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/influence-transformational-leader/docview/203137403/se-2?accountid=160851
Colbert AE. Understanding the effects of transformational leadership: The mediating role of leader -follower value congruence. [Order No. 3157961]. The University of Iowa; 2004
Johnson JW, C.J.M. Leadership and transformational change. American Jails. 2017;31(3):4-80.
https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/leadership-transformational-change/docview/1999554607/se-2?accountid=160851
Abdul HB, Sajjad NK, Siti MA, Yasir HM. Transformational leadership style, followership, and factors of employees’ reactions towards organizational change. Journal of Asia Business Studies. 2020;14(2):181-209. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/transformational-leadership-style-followership/docview/2533895979/se-2?accountid=160851. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JABS-03-2018-0083
Caldwell R. Change leaders and change managers: Different or complementary? Leadership & Organization Development Journal. 2003;24(5):285-293. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/change-leaders-managers-different-complementary/docview/226915641/se-2?accountid=160851. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01437730310485806
Schyns B, Sczesny S. Leadership attributes valence in self-concept and occupational self-efficacy. Career Development International. 2010;15(1):78-92. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/leadership-attributes-valence-self-concept/docview/219355096/se-2?accountid=160851. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13620431011020907
Judge, T.A. and Bono, J.E. (2000) Five-Factor Model of Personality and Transformational Leadership
Schwantes, M. (2016) 5 Leadership Behaviors You Want in a High-Potential Employee
Alatawi, M. A. (2017) The myth of the addictive effect of the transformational leadership model. Contemporary Management Research. (13) (1) 42-48.
Instructions:
You should be careful to select someone for whom you can obtain information so that you will have an opportunity to
• evaluate his/ her leadership style
• have enough substance to answer the questions on his/her leadership traits and very specifically.
Leader is : Arianna Huffington
Your submission needs to be organized. Therefore, you should make proper use of headings and subheadings to structure your paper properly. You will synthesize all of the information you have gathered over the term and present a coherent, comprehensive, logically structured overview of this person as a model for transformational leadership. You should provide a well-integrated report containing, organized logically for your subject.
The following are some of the questions you might want to answer in your report. Please DO NOT limit yourself to only those, though.
1. What does he or she do? What is his/her educational and professional experience and what is his/her current title and position? (This section should be concise. No more than one paragraph.).
2. What is the major change or transformation for which this individual is known?
3. What kind of ethos does he/she project?
4. What do others say about his/ her leadership and his/her communication abilities?
5. What do others say about his/her ability to motivate and engage employees?
6. What are some examples of his/her leadership strengths?
7. What role did or does communication play in his/her transformational leadership accomplishments?
8. What about his/her interpersonal interactions (emotional intelligence)?
9. What factors contribute to his or her ability to lead organizational change effectively?
10. What have you learned about leadership communication by profiling this person? What can we all learn? What makes him/her a good example of a transformational leader.
11. How would you define a business transformation leadership from your perspective, thinking about your profiled leader as a model? Include your own opinion.
You will want to allow enough time to research and think about the information you find.
Remember: All writing must be supported by academic literature and will be in APA format during this course. You must cite each and every sentence in which you used materials from your academic literature. Your work will be checked for academic integrity by the Turnitin system. For a great breakdown of academic literature, please visit: https://www.lib.unb.ca/research/success/understanding.php
Assignment Deliverable
Write a minimum of 10 full page final draft of your research. Your final paper should contain each of the sections from the Table of Contents. It should also have a reference page with at least 10 academic resources. The cover page and reference page are not included in the 10 page count.
