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Homework: Change-Oriented Leadership: Transformational and Charismatic Leaders
Overview
In this homework, your critical-thinking skills will be assessed. The critical-thinking rubric will be useful for this purpose. In this course, MGT401, critical-thinking skills will be assessed at the "introduced" level. In MGT420, they are assessed at the "reinforced" level. Finally, in MGT422 your critical thinking skills will be assessed at the "emphasized" level. The grading rubric for critical-thinking skills at the undergraduate level has been developed to measure student success in meeting the MGT401 SLP 3 expectations. Rubrics for the other two courses are included in their respective homework.
Before starting this homework, be sure that you are familiar with what is meant by "critical thinking."
Critical thinking is one of the five key rubric criteria by which your homework are graded. Therefore, you are expected to demonstrate evidence of critical thinking in all homework. The following might help you to learn the concept of critical thinking.
Lack, C. W., & Rousseau, J. (2016). Chapter 4: What is critical thinking? In Critical thinking, science, and pseudoscience: Why we can't trust our brains. Springer Publishing Company. Available in the Trident Online Library, EBSCO eBook Collection.
For the Module SLP homework, you will apply the concepts from the background materials to your own personal experiences. You can write about the same supervisor you wrote about in Modules 1 and 2, or choose a different supervisor that you worked with and got to know well.
Carefully review the concepts and definitions of charismatic, transformational, and transactional leadership. Then write a 2 to 3 pages paper and include at least two scholarly peer-reviewed sources from the Trident Online Library or the homework background materials addressing the following issues using specific examples from your personal experiences:
I. Describe a situation you experienced or witnessed in the workplace when a current or past supervisor used a transformational approach to motivate their employees. Was it effective? What about the supervisor's behaviors marked them as a transformational leader?
II. Describe a situation you experienced or witnessed in the workplace when a current or past supervisor used a charismatic approach to motivate their employees. Was it effective? What about the supervisor's behaviors marked them as a charismatic leader?
III. Describe a situation you experienced or witnessed in the workplace when a current or past supervisor used a transactional approach to motivate their employees. Was it effective? What about the supervisor's behaviors marked them as a transactional leader?
IV. Based on what you've read for this class so far as well as from your own experience working with different supervisors, which approach, transformational, charismatic, or transactional leadership is more effective as a leadership style in your organization?