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Essay Instructions: Writer?s Username: betty

Topic: Relational Approaches to Leadership
? Leader-Member Exchange Theory (chapter 8)
? Transformational Leadership (chapter 9)
? Authentic Leadership (chapter 10)

Behavioral Learning Objectives:

Students will analyze the three relational approaches to leadership and look specifically at what CEO and/or company encapsulates the true meaning of authentic leadership.

Required Readings:

? Chapters 8-10 (Northouse, Peter G., Leadership Theory and Practice, 5th Edition, Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, 2010. ISBN: 4882)

? Transformational Case Study article (See attachment)


Other Actions Required:

Use MLA style for citation format.



Assignment : (Due May 17, 2012, 11:59pm Pacific Time)

In your opinion, which CEO and/or company represents authentic leadership and why?

Essay Instructions: ASSESSMENT: Transformational Leadership Plan
Submit a 3500-5250-word assignment in which you summarize your understanding of the outcomes of transformational leadership and innovation and translate your course learning into a personal leadership plan. This plan should synthesize aspects of transformational leadership learned in this course with your leadership philosophy. This synthesis need not demonstrate advocacy of any one theory of leadership, but it should demonstrate a definitive personal stance and trajectory. Provide references to appropriate literature to support your judgments, assertions, and conclusions.

Specific tasks
*Submit a 3500-5250-word assignment
*summarize your understanding of the outcomes of transformational leadership and innovation
*translate your course learning into a personal leadership plan
-plan should synthesize aspects of transformational leadership learned in this course with your leadership philosophy
-synthesis need not demonstrate advocacy of any one theory of leadership, but it should demonstrate a definitive personal stance and trajectory.
*Provide references to appropriate literature to support your judgments, assertions, and conclusions.
TOPICS for paper

OUTLINE FOR PAPER
LEADERSHIP HISTORY AND MODELS
? Analyze leadership through doctoral-level research
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
? Compare and contrast leadership models
? Assess the effectiveness of leadership models
? Evaluate the supporting research contributing to development of leadership models
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS
? Profile transformational leaders
? Evaluate the impact of environmental factors on transformational leadership
? Analyze leadership styles in order to increase individual and team effectiveness
INNOVATION
? Explain the application of transformational leadership to implement innovation
INNOVATIVE MODELS
? Propose an innovative model of leadership that improves team performance
RESULTS AND OUTCOMES OF INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
? Synthesize aspects of transformational leadership into an individual leadership plan
? Summarize the outcomes of transformational leadership and innovation

Essay Instructions: I need paper to be original to avoid being detected as a plagarized paper, major sources includes Educational Administration: Theory, Research, and Practice by Hoy and Miskel (2008). This paper is to discuss transformational leadership with recent relevant researchers' works of todays,compare and contrast as some say transormational is derived from transactional while others think it is independent on its own etc. Important researchers such as Avolio&Bass,Burns,Sergiovanni,T.J(1984),Yukl,House,Hoy&Miskel,Leithwood,Rodney T. Ogawa&Steven T. Bossert,Stogdill; The paper needs title,bibiography,(author's last name and years published when cited and quoted), APA style, Thanks

Essay Instructions: Directions for assignment

Attached is my paper, under each strength I would like about 3 sentences or a paragraph tying in transformational leadership with my strength and how it will be beneficial to me in the future. There are five strengths in the subheadings at the beginning of the paper and at the end of each strength description and example I would like this paragraph of transformational leadership with my strength and how it will be beneficial to me in the future tied in. Provided is the definition of transformational leadership and a thorough description of transformational leadership to draw from.


I would like to incorporate a summary of the whole paper to discuss how my strengths tie in with transformational leadership and my future as a leader. 1 page long double-spaced, times new roman, 12-point font, professionally written. The summary will act as a conclusion to the whole paper.


In total I am ordering 2 pages of information to be incorporated into the paper.

From here down is simply the definition and material to draw from in aiding the addition of transformational leadership for this part of the paper.


Transformational leadership enhances the motivation, morale and performance of followers through a variety of mechanisms. These include connecting the follower's sense of identity and self to the mission and the collective identity of the organization; being a role model for followers that inspires them; challenging followers to take greater ownership for their work, and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of followers, so the leader can align followers with tasks that optimize their performance.

Transformational Leadership: pg. 81 of: Complexity Leadership Nursing?s Role in Health Care Delivery
Transformational leadership is more than maintaining a rigid organization, but rather, becoming a change maker. Burn?s (1978) work about the transforming leader was the foundation for transformational leadership models. He describes the transforming leader as one with the ability to create visions and employ charismatic behaviors. Burns described transforming leaders as purposeful leaders who seek to understand the motivation and needs of their followers. Transformational leadership generates collective purpose and can be judged effective if actual social change results. When on or more persons engage others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality, true transformational leadership is present.
Personal transformational leadership traits focus much more on the ability to influence and implement second-order change. First-order change is change within an established system, whereas second-order change results in a change of the system itself, e.g., transformation (Watzlawick, Weakland, and Fisch, 1974). A complexity view helps leaders see the whole system and facilitate second-order change.
Dunham-Taylor (1995) discovered that effective nurse administrators had characteristics and traits of transformational leaders. They strive for higher quality, both organizationally and personally. They are comfortable with change. Their leadership is dynamic, visionary, and value-driven, and they can be very serious about their work. They possess humor, integrity, humility, and charisma. They have the capacity to be intuitive in their decision-making, are aware of their own humanity, and coach others rather than direct.
Marriner-Tomey(1993) described the actions of transformational leaders. They are able to cultivate relationships, build coalitions across lines and with people in different departments and disciplines, and use excellent communication skills. By empowering others and being trustworthy and purposeful, they engender a high level of motivation in others. Taking risks that reflect their own self-identified values, they are self-reflective, always seeking to understand their own contributions to a relationship or situation. Traits and actions such as these describe the complexity leader, who is self-reflective and relationship-based.