MGMT 8005M: Week 8 Leadership Assignment
MGMT 8005M: Week 8 Leadership Assignment
MGMT 8005M: Organizational Perspectives and Implications for Leaders | Week 8
Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people,” that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
-Peter F. Drucker (Drucker & Maciariello, p. 288)
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How can organizations improve leadership practice? Can one critique organizations through a different lens to determine if change is needed? This week, you will explore the dysfunctional characteristics of organizations with the aim of improving leadership practice. You will also have the opportunity to examine an organization of your choice and explore possible ways of improving dysfunctional characteristics within the organization.
Learning Objectives – MGMT 8005M: Week 8 Leadership Assignment
This week, you will:
- Evaluate dysfunctional characteristics of corporations
- Apply leadership approaches for change to these negative organizational characteristics
Skills
You will develop the following skills:
- Analyze problematic leadership in organizations
- Apply theoretical concepts to practical cases
Resources
Note: To access this week’s library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Readings
Bolman, L. G., & Deal, T. E. (2017). Reframing organizations: Artistry, choice, and leadership (6th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
- Chapter 17, “Reframing Leadership” (pp. 325–356)
- Chapter 18, “Reframing Change in Organizations” (pp. 359–381)
- Chapter 20, “Bringing It All Together: Change and Leadership in Action” (pp. 399–422)
Morgan, G. (2006). Images of organization. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Chapter 9, “The Ugly Face: Organizations as Instruments of Domination” (pp. 291–333)
Walden University Online Writing Center. (2014). Walden templates: Overview. Retrieved from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/templates
World Health Organization. (1993). The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders (Rep.). Retrieved from http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/GRNBOOK.pdf
Discussion: Improving Leadership Practice
The World Health Organization published a list of “Dissocial Personality Disorder” traits, which includes the following items:
- Lack of concern for the feelings of others
- Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships
- Disregard for the safety of others
- Repeated lying and conning others for profit
- Incapacity to experience guilt
- Failure to conform to social norms
(Adapted from: World Health Organization, 1993, p. 152)
For this Discussion, review this week’s resources and consider the connection between corporations, dysfunctionality, and leadership. Also, examine how dysfunctionality might impact a corporation’s social responsibility.
Day 3: Initial Post
Post by Day 3 an argument as to whether or not most large American corporations are dysfunctional and exploitive and have little regard for social responsibility.
Day 5: Response
Respond by Day 5 to at leat two of your colleagues’ postings. In your responses, be sure to address one of the following:
- Expand on your colleague’s posting.
- What insights did you gain from your colleague’s posting?
- Offer an alternative suggestion.
Note: Include proper APA citations to support all statements by referencing at least two sources from this week’s recommended readings as well as two additional sources from relevant peer-reviewed publications. MGMT 8005M: Week 8 Leadership Assignment.