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Assignment

Choose a leader of an organization and write a 2000 word essay that analyzes the leader's leadership style, appraises the leader's communication abilities, evaluates the leader's usage of leadership communication theory, and compares the leader's impact on organizational culture.

Give a little background on the leader including their name, type of organization, organization's primary products and/or services, how long they have been with the organization, prior organizational associations (if any) and number of followers or employees.

Classify the leadership style used. Justify your classification with examples. Provide rationale for this type of leadership style for this organization. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this type of leadership style.

Point out at least one leadership theory that you believe your leader subscribes to and discuss how that impacts the leader/ follower relationship and the organization as a whole.

Assess the culture found within the organization and justify this assessment with examples. Discuss your leaders impact on organizational culture.

Make at least two recommendations for your leader based upon what you have learned about leadership communication in this course.

Formatting & Sources

Please write your paper in the APA format. As part of your research, you may refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you must also use at least three credible, outside sources and cite them using APA format as well.

Please include a mix of both primary and secondary sources, with at least one source from a scholarly peer-reviewed journal. If you use any Study.com lessons as sources, please also cite them in APA (including the lesson title and instructor's name).

Primary sources are first-hand accounts such as interviews, advertisements, speeches, company documents, statements, and press releases published by the company in question.

Secondary sources come from peer-reviewed scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Management. You may use like JSTOR, Google Scholar, and Social Science Research Network to find articles from these journals. Secondary sources may also come from reputable websites with .gov, .edu, or .org in the domain. (Wikipedia is not a reputable source, though the sources listed in Wikipedia articles may be acceptable.)