Question

What is your leadership goal and how does it fit into your overall leadership journey? How will you use your strengths to support you to achieve this goal?

(5075 words)

Start writing here: My leadership goal is to be able to establish effective teams and groups, and motivate them towards the accomplishment of various goals. It is important to note that this particular leadership goal fits into my preferred approach to leadership, which is participative leadership. In addition to being an effective communicator, I also happen to be broad minded. These are the skills I will be deploying on this front to ensure better connection with team members.

Question 2

Identify and share at least three ideas for initial experiments you could create to support you to achieve your leadership goal.

(50 words per idea)

1. Start writing here:

I could seek to establish whether participative leadership has any effect on overall team performance. In this case, I would be interested in finding out whether my preferred leadership style could positively influence the performance of teams with the said performance being evaluated on basis of the ability of a team to fulfill its mandate.

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I could seek to establish whether participative leadership has any effect on team cohesion. Team cohesion could in this case be described as the ability and willingness of members of a team to establish and maintain strong interpersonal connections. A cohesive team is more likely to work together towards the accomplishment of various set goals.

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I could seek to determine whether participative leadership has an effect on organizational commitment (i.e. the bond/connection between employees and the organization). Organizational commitment is key to the achievement of organizational goals. Teams could contribute towards the achievement of organizational goals if individual members have a high level of commitment to the organization.

Question 3

Select one idea described in Question 2. Explain the hypothesis you would test in this experiment. Your experiment should strike the balance between providing rigorous, useful data that can disprove a (null) hypothesis while at the same time remaining as simple, cheap, and small as possible. Highlight any possible alternative explanations and contrary information that could account for your hypothesis.

(85160 words)

Start writing here: The idea selected in this case is whether participative leadership has any effect on team cohesion. Thus, an ideal hypothesis that I would test on this front could be: participative leadership results in improved team cohesion. To a large extent, there are a number of alternative explanations that that could account for the stated hypothesis. For instance, team cohesion could be enhanced by other factors independent of the kind of leadership style embraced. The said factors are inclusive of, but they are not limited to, the personality of team members, team size, nature of team objectives, etc.

Question 4

Using your idea from Question 3, design an experiment to test this hypothesis by completing...…explain how the participant will ensure that testing these assumptions is low cost and happens on a small scale. (7)

The answer selects one idea from Question 2 and explains all of the assumptions of the hypothesis to be tested in the proposed experiment. The answer references how the participant will ensure that their assumptions are tested on either a low cost or a small scale, but not both. (8.5)

The answer selects one idea from Question 2 and explains all of the assumptions of the hypothesis to be tested in the proposed experiment. The answer explains how the participant will ensure that testing these assumptions is low cost and happens on a small scale. (10)

Question 4

The answer completes all sections of the experiment design table and each section addresses the specified experiment design questions.

No submission.

OR

The answer fails to address the question. (0)

The answer completes no more than three sections of the experiment design table and all completed sections address their specified experiment design questions.

OR

The answer completes all six sections of the experiment design table but none of the sections address their specified experiment design questions. (11)

The answer completes at least four sections of the experiment design table and all completed sections address their specified experiment design questions. (14)

The answer completes all six sections of the experiment design table, but all completed sections do not address their specified experiment design questions. (17)

The answer completes all six sections of the experiment design table and all sections…