LM001: Leadership Frameworks and Theories

LM001: Leadership Frameworks and Theories Short Answer Submission Form Your Name: Your E-mail Address: Your email here Instructions This Competency includes a Short-Answer Response Assessment. Write your response to each prompt below in the space provided. The Rubric, which will be used by the Competency Assessor to evaluate your responses, is beneath the prompts. Carefully review the Rubric rows associated with each prompt to provide a complete response. When writing your response, begin typing where it reads “Enter Your Response Here.” Write as much as needed to satisfy the requirements of the prompt (as defined in the Rubric). Be sure to support your responses with connections to professional sources. Your Assessment responses require references (in APA style) to support your thinking. You will list your references at the end of this template where “References” are noted. If you need additional information regarding how to correctly cite, and/or reference sources, please visit the Walden Writing Center at http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/apa/citations To learn more about effective paraphrasing strategies, visit the Walden Writing Center at http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/evidence/paraphrase/effective ©2015 Walden University 1 Review the following example item and response for a sample that meets expectations. Sample Prompt: Choose a definition of organizational culture, and explain whether you agree or disagree with the definition. Use examples from your own professional experience to support your response. Response: Whitehurst (2016) explained “organizational culture is defined by how people in an organization interact with each other” (para. 2). While I agree that this is one aspect of organizational culture, the definition does not capture the complex factors that contribute to organizational culture. When I started my first job after finishing my undergraduate degree in business, I worked for an organization whose main headquarters were in Dubai. When I traveled to Dubai for the first time, I realized that the culture of the Dubai office was largely influenced by the society’s culture in Dubai. I found that the organization lacked one cohesive culture and that, depending on regional locations, each office had its own culture. International organizations often face many challenges in maintaining a cohesive organizational culture (Watkins, 2013). I found this observation to be true in my experience. For example, the Dubai office seemed to endow their employees with more allowance for self-direction when compared with our domestic offices. Although people’s interactions with one another contributed to the organization’s culture, there were other factors like location, management style, and societal norms that impacted a business culture as well. References Watkins, M. D. (2013, May 15). What is organizational culture? And why should we care. LM001: Leadership Frameworks and Theories

Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2013/05/what-is-organizational-culture Whitehurst, J. (2016, October 13). Leaders can shape company culture through their behaviors. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2016/10/leaders-can-shape-company-culture-through-their-behaviors Note: References are included at the end of a Short-Answer Assessment but are included here as an example of an accurate APA reference list. ©2015 Walden University 2 Case 1: Craig Kielburger Cases Read the six business dilemmas for the Craig Kielburger Cases then respond to the following: Part A: General Leadership • In what ways are Craig Kielburger’s behaviors and actions consistent with the principles and practices of authentic leadership? Be sure to support your reasoning with at least two explicit references to leadership best practices and to appropriate theoretical frameworks about leadership. (2 – 3 paragraphs) • Do you think Craig Kielburger is an effective leader? Why or why not? Identify at least two additional leadership behaviors and/or best practices he could implement to address business problems and opportunities in his company. Be sure to support your reasoning with explicit references to leadership best practices and to appropriate theoretical frameworks about effective leadership. (1 – 2 paragraphs) Part B: Personal Reflection • Having reviewed the Craig Kielburger cases, describe how your own life experiences have led to the development or transformation of your leadership skills and behaviors. Use at least two specific examples to demonstrate how and why these personal experiences have improved your leadership practices. Be sure to relate how your behaviors and practices relate to best practices and to relevant leadership theoretical frameworks. (3 – 4 paragraphs) • Describe how leadership can play a key role in shaping values for affecting positive social change and creating value for organizational performance. Be specific, and be sure to support your reasoning with at least two explicit references to leadership best practices and to appropriate theoretical leadership frameworks. (2 – 3 paragraphs) Only add 1 example • Identify and describe what you think is the most important value espoused by the company you work for. Is it a core value, aspirational value, or permission-to-play value? Does the company live and behave in accordance with the value, and what is leadership’s role in this process? How can you influence the practice of this value? Be specific, and be sure to support your ©2015 Walden University 3 reasoning with explicit references to leadership best practices and to appropriate theoretical frameworks about leadership. (2 – 3 paragraphs) – only add 1 example Your Response Part A: General Leadership • Leadership is the act of directing or leading a group of people or an organization. This is the most critical in any business, organization or a community. For one to be an effective leader, there are different emotional intelligence that should naturally come out of the person. LM001: Leadership Frameworks and Theories

For instance, in the case of Craig Kielburger’s actions and behaviors was kind enough to qualify him to be a good leader. Emotional intelligence is one of the most critical competencies that an effective leader should have (Kerr et al., 2006). Motivation, self-awareness, empathy, social skills, and self-regulation are the crucial traits that should be within an effective leader. For one to be successful in leadership there should be an impact felt by the surrounding. Craig Kielburger succeeded in his administration due to principles of leadership that he had that made people like him. For example, in his trip to South Asia, it was through empathy and self-awareness that he was able to rescue children who were under slavery, which finally came out victorious, and he had people who supported him to have a child rescue home. This shows how effective and influential he was to the society, which as a result rescued many children from slavery (Brown, 2010). As a good leader, this was something perfect to do; he was able to understand the emotional feeling of the other people of the society. ©2015 Walden University 4 • One can say that Craig Kielburger is an effective leader, since, for one he has the qualities that a good leader should have, somebody who listens to the people and not selfish. He aimed to influence everyone and make everyone useful in society; we see him and his group focusing on educating the rescued children. His main aim was to eradicate poverty from families since this was the reason why the children were working for a living. Part B: Personal Reflection • Leadership comes with many challenges. For one to be successful in the leadership field he or she first he should be able to understand the emotional intelligence of the group that he or she is leading. For instance, if one is leading an organization, it is much essential that the leader can solve problems among his members, in other words, he has the capability of solving problems and coming up with solutions to do away with the difficulties. This is one of the critical parts of any leadership field. This makes a leader perfect and develops one’s emotional intelligence by increasing the level of management skills and good relations among his group. On the other hand, uniting people is another challenge that is faced with many leaders, making every person feel equal. This means leadership should not be a position but a behavior. Leaders take the responsibility of bringing change and making decisions in their practices of empowering and discovering the potential in their group (Fiol, 1999). For instance, as a leader one can influence his group by acting as an example, this makes the group members feel close to the leader and hence able to share the challenges that they might be facing. ©2015 Walden University 5 In addition, as a leader one should make an impact, this is the most common among the great leaders of history, letting other people feel your impact. Coming up with a unique contribution to your leadership makes one more useful to his leadership roles. LM001: Leadership Frameworks and Theories

In addition, as a leader, one should have vision and money should come to the last option, perfect your functions and coordination towards the vision set aside and the team one is leading should be inspired by the vision. For example, a leader is not supposed to talk much. Instead, he or she is supposed to act work along with his group. This will motivate his group members and feel close to their leaders and can easily exchange the experiences. In addition, a leader can come up with motivational techniques to drive their members (Kark & Van Dijk, 2007). As a leader, your members should be the priority, since this will motivate them to work towards the goals that you have set for them. • Leadership enables leaders to focus on sustainable projects in order to affect a positive social change and to eliminate recurrent problems in society (Williams, 2014). This is because sustainable projects will enable the society to be independent and no longer depend on donations thus a positive social change. For instance, Craig Kielburger with the intention to help the enslaved children had to come up with a sustainable solution in order to eliminate the vicious cycle of rescue and back to slavery. His leadership skills enabled him to come up with the idea of constructing schools so that the rescued children could attend school rather than go back to slavery and the know-how of how to ensure that girls could also attend school rather than being at home taking care of the younger offspring and fetching water. ©2015 Walden University 6 Leaders can play the role of being good examples to the other employees so as to narrow the gap between espoused and lived organizational values (Harris & House, 1999). For instance, if leaders demonstrate integrity to the employees by being good examples of taking care of the organizational finances, the employees will follow that example and they will not embezzle the organization’s funds. Integrity is, therefore, a critical value that can be espoused by any company with the help of good leadership. Leaders can also play the role of guiding and correcting the employees so as to narrow any gap between espoused and lived organizational values. Through guidance, leaders can, therefore, narrow any gap between espoused and lived organizational values since employees will follow suit what they are being guided to do. Leaders can also play the role of setting a clear vision while motivating employees so as to narrow the gap between espoused and lived organizational values. Through motivation and setting of clear organizational vision, the gap between espoused and lived organizational values will narrow down since employees will feel motivated to narrow the gap between espoused and lived organizational values by their esteemed leaders. • The most important value espoused by the company I work for is the core value. This value is important since it ensures that employees work in line with the set values and with the objective of achieving the organization’s goals. LM001: Leadership Frameworks and Theories

The company lives and behaves in accordance with the core values. The leadership role in the process is setting a good example to ©2015 Walden University 7 the employees so that they can follow the good role models of the leaders. The practice of the core values can be influenced by creating awareness of the need and importance of working in accordance with the core values. Creating awareness in the organization of the need to work in accordance with the core values can influence the application of core values by the employees as they work. Good examples by the managers of the organization can also influence the practice of core values in the organization. This is because if the managers practice the use of core value, the other employees will be obliged to espouse the core values as they work. Since the managers are the leaders of the other employees, if they espouse core values as they work, other employees will do the same. This is because leaders lead by example. Rubric 0 Not Present 1 Needs Improvement 2 Meets Expectations 3 Exceeds Expectations Sub-Competency 1: Specify elements of leadership theories that explain how leaders can be more effective in addressing business problems and opportunities. Learning Objective 1.1: Explain behaviors consistent with the principles and practices of authentic leadership. The explanation of behaviors consistent with the principles and practices of authentic leadership.is missing. The explanation does not clearly link leadership practices and frameworks and concepts with facts from the case study. The explanation includes fewer than two leadership best practices and/or the ©2015 Walden University The explanation clearly links leadership practices and frameworks and concepts with facts from the case study. The explanation includes two appropriate and relevant leadership best practices and two The explanation demonstrates the same level of achievement as “2,” plus the following: The explanation provides a well-integrated argument that very clearly explains how, when, and why authentic leadership can 8 0 Not Present 1 Needs Improvement practices are not appropriate and relevant. The explanation includes fewer than two theoretical frameworks about leadership and/or it does not clearly and completely explain how, when, and why authentic leadership can be an effective set of leadership behaviors. Learning Objective 1.2: Explain leadership behaviors and best practices that can be implemented to solve business problems or increase opportunity. ©2015 Walden University The explanation of leadership behaviors and best practices that can be implemented to solve business problems or increase opportunity is missing. 2 Meets Expectations theoretical frameworks about leadership that clearly and completely explain how, when, and why authentic leadership can be an effective set of leadership behaviors. 3 Exceeds Expectations be an effective set of leadership behaviors. The response is supported by relevant academic/professional resources. LM001: Leadership Frameworks and Theories

The response is not supported by academic/professional resources or the resources are not relevant. The explanation identifies fewer than two leadership behaviors or best practices that the leader in the case presented could have implemented to become more effective in addressing a business problem or opportunity. The explanation identifies two leadership behaviors or best practices that the leader in the case presented could have implemented to become more effective in addressing a business problem or opportunity. The explanation does not clearly demonstrate why the leader in the case is an The explanation clearly demonstrates why the leader in the case is an The explanation demonstrates the same level of achievement as “2,” plus the following: The explanation identifies more than two leadership behaviors or best practices that could be implemented to become more effective in addressing a business problem or opportunity in provided case. 9 0 Not Present Learning Objective 1.3: Describe relationships between personal leadership experience and leadership best practices theories and frameworks. The description of relationships between personal leadership experience and leadership best practices theories and frameworks is missing. 1 Needs Improvement effective leader or is not an effective leader. The description provides fewer than two examples from personal experience about the development or transformation of one’s leadership skills and behaviors and/or the examples are not clear and/or relevant. The description does not integrate two appropriate and relevant best practices and/or theoretical frameworks about leadership to explain how and why the personal experiences have improved the leadership practices. The best practice and framework concepts are not paraphrased accurately and/or are not woven into a single informative argument that reflects the student’s own words. ©2015 Walden University 2 Meets Expectations effective leader or is not an effective leader. The description provides two clear and relevant examples from personal experience about the development or transformation of one’s leadership skills and behaviors. The description integrates two appropriate and relevant leadership best practices and two theoretical frameworks about leadership to explain how and why the personal experiences have improved the leadership practices. LM001: Leadership Frameworks and Theories

The best practice and framework concepts are paraphrased accurately and are woven into a single informative argument that reflects the student’s own words. 3 Exceeds Expectations Response demonstrates the same level of achievement as “2,” plus the following: The description provides more than two clear and relevant examples from personal experience about the development or transformation of one’s leadership skills and behaviors. The description fully integrates more than two appropriate and relevant leadership best practices and/or more than two theoretical frameworks about leadership to explain how and why the personal experiences have improved the leadership practices. 10 Sub-Competency 2: Analyze the role of values in leadership for affecting positive social change and creating value. Learning Objective 2.1: Describe how leadership can play a key role in shaping values for affecting positive social change and creating value for organizational performance. Learning Objective 2.2: Describe the role leaders can play within ©2015 Walden University The description of how leadership can play a key role in shaping values for affecting positive social change and creating value for organizational performance is missing. The description of the role leaders can play within the organization to narrow any The description does not include two appropriate and relevant leadership best practices and/or two theoretical frameworks about leadership that effectively describe how leadership can play a key role in shaping values for affecting positive social change and creating value for organizational performance. The description includes two appropriate and relevant leadership best practices and two theoretical frameworks about leadership that effectively describe how leadership can play a key role in shaping values for affecting positive social change and creating value for organizational performance. The description does not accurately paraphrase best practices and framework concepts and/or is not woven into a single informative argument that reflects the student’s own words. The description accurately paraphrases best practices and framework concepts and is woven into a single informative argument that reflects the student’s own words. The response is not supported with academic/professi…