17 Aug Strategic Leadership
Summary: Develop a 6-10 page research paper on the leadership topic: Strategic Leadership
Purpose: The purpose of this mini-paper is to, (a) provide you with the opportunity to identify a current leadership issue of interest to you and of relevance in today’s workplace, (b) help you pull together information from various sources on the current approaches to your chosen topic, and (c) allow you the opportunity to think about how you might test your research question.
Topic: Why is strategic leadership essential in the business environment?
Structure:
Introduction: The introduction of your paper should (a) clearly identify the topic domain (e.g., ethical leadership) you have chosen, (b) explain why you have chosen it (answer the “so what?” and “who cares?” questions). You should be able to articulate why this topic is of current relevance and how it influences the workplace. This is where you are “selling” the topic to the reader.
Review: Your topic review should describe your topic in more detail. The purpose of this section is to answer the question, what do we already know about the topic? What relationships have already been demonstrated/supported. What methods are currently out there? How effective are they? Are there multiple dimensions to your topic? Are there individual differences involved? etc.
Research Question: This is the section where you develop your question for research. Combining the importance of your topic and what we already know about it, what question(s) do you want to ask (which relationship do you want to research). You may develop specific propositions if you choose, or you may simply present a question or set of questions.
