PPPA 8111: Leadership and Organizational Change
Final Research Paper Guidelines
You are required to complete a research paper that will constitute the Course Project.
The purpose of the paper is to afford you the opportunity to demonstrate research,
writing, and critical thinking skills in the area of leadership.
For your Final Research Paper, you will synthesize, evaluate, and apply concepts,
theories, and strategies related to leadership and organizational change. Throughout
this course, you will complete surveys and questionnaires contained in the course text.
You will save the results of these surveys and questionnaires, and for the Final
Research Paper, you will summarize and analyze your results. The surveys and
questionnaires will help you discovery how each leadership approach and theory relates
to your personal leadership style.
For the Final Project you will:
Analyze your leadership style in your own words without referring to the
approaches or theories you studied. Describe an example from your own
experience, or one in which you are familiar, to support your analysis.
Determine which leadership approach or theory you studied most closely
resembles your own leadership style. Using an example from your own
experience, or one in which you are familiar; explain how this leadership
approach or theory resembles your style.
Describe which leadership approach or theory you studied that you would most
like to adopt. Explain why you selected this particular approach or theory.
Describe steps that you can take to more closely align your personal leadership
style with the one you wish to adopt. If the leadership approach is the same as
your own, describe steps you can take to enhance your leadership style.
Select three other approaches or theories you have studied that you would not
want to adopt. Explain why you would not want to adopt these specific
approaches or theories.