About this Assignment
This course taught you about leadership theories and the relevance to organizational change. You also learned about the 21st-century leadership theories and how they changed significantly to include women in leadership roles as well as technology advances. For this assignment, you will construct a reflection paper that is 500-700 words comparing/contrasting the traditional leadership theories versus the transition into the 21st Century.
Prompt
Follow these steps to organize your reflection paper:
Create an introduction to your paper by assessing the structural changes of the traditional leadership theories versus modern theories. Write down what you expected before reading about these business world changes.
Develop a thesis statement and include it at the end of your introduction. You may use the following reflection thesis structure: ‘From reading about the changes of key leadership theories to new leadership theories of business today, I learned….’
Explain your points in the body of the paper. Write about your findings based on your experience, perspective, and prior knowledge of leadership theory changes since the 1800s. Include how your expectations relate to the chapter text or not. The body of your paper must include at least three separate points as three separate paragraphs.
Conclude with a succinct summary that describes your overall understanding and relative business experiences and perspectives related to core traditional leadership theories and the new leadership theories’ changes over time.
Sources & Formatting
You may refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you must use at least two credible outside sources and cite them using APA formatting. Please include a mix of primary and secondary sources, with at least one source from a scholarly peer-reviewed journal. If you use any Study.com lessons as sources, please also cite them in APA (including the lesson title and instructor’s name).
Primary sources are first-hand accounts such as interviews, advertisements, speeches, company documents, statements, and press releases published by the company in question.
Secondary sources come from peer-reviewed scholarly journals like the Journal of Management. You may use sites like JSTOR, Google Scholar, and Social Science Research Network to find articles from these journals. Secondary sources may also come from reputable websites with .gov, .edu, or .org in the domain. (Wikipedia is not reputable, though the sources listed in Wikipedia articles may be acceptable.)
