INSTRUCTIONS FOR POSITION PAPER AND REPORT MG401 Position Paper Due the End of Week Three For this five page, double spaced position paper (APA format), you can select any topic that involves leadership, for example, "Does Leadership Really Make a Difference?\" The following is a brief overview of what constitutes a 'position paper: A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to. Ideas that you are considering need to be carefully examined in choosing a topic, developing your argument, and organizing your paper. It is very important to ensure that you are addressing all sides of the issue and presenting it in a manner that is easy for your audience to understand. Your job is to take one side of the argument and persuade your audience that you have well-founded knowledge of the topic being presented. It is important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims, as well as to address the counterclaims to show that you are well informed about both sides. Once your topic is selected, you should do some research on the subject matter. While you may already have an opinion on your topic and an idea about which side of the argument you want to take, you need to ensure that your position is well supported. Listing out the pro and con sides of the topic will help you examine your ability to support your counterclaims, along with a list of supporting evidence for both sides. A generic sample outline for a position paper contains: An introduction, counter argument, your argument, and your conclusion. Report due the End of Week Seven Research Report: During the past several decades, there have been a large number of books and articles written about leaders and leadership that have appeared in the popular press and on the shelves at your local bookstore. I believe that lessons can be learned from the anecdotal comments coming from these popular writers, the men and women leaders of today's organizations and those who have chosen to observe and write about them. Your assignment By the end of the seventh week, you are expected to have read one of the popular books (see the following bibliography) or several related leadership articles and to have prepared a 5- to 7-page summary (APA format). If you choose a book, you do not need to read it the same way you read a textbook. A book can be read quickly and lightly. You can extract the essence from works of this nature without reading each word and line with \"pain-staking detail.\" You may find the essence of the author's work in the first chapter, sometimes it appears in the last chapter, sometimes it is spread throughout the book. I am asking that you provide a \"summary\" of the author's workwhat is the author's major theme? What are the key ideas being presented? Your work is to be a summary and not a personal critique of the book or series of articles. Bibliography Adair, Effective Leadership Autry, Love and Profit: The Art of Caring Leadership Badaracco and Ellsworth, Leadership and the Quest Bass and Avolio, Improving Organizational Effectiveness through Transformational Ownership Bass, Leadership and Performance Beyond Expectations Bellingham and Cohen, Leadership: Myths and Realities Bennis and Nanus, Leaders Bennis, Leaders on Leadership Bennis, On Becoming a Leader Bennis, Why Leaders Can't Lead Block, Stewardship Block, The Empowered Manager Bracey, Managing from the Heart Bryman, Charisma and Leadership in Organizations Burns, Leadership Byham and Cox, Zapp: The Lightning of Empowerment Chaleff, The Courageous Follower Cheaney and Cotter, Real People, Real Work: Parables on Leadership in the 90s Clark and Clark, Measures of Leadership Clark, Clark, and Campbell, Impact of Leadership Cohen and Bradford, Influence without Authority Cohen, The Art of the Leader Collins, Women Leading Conger, Charismatic Leadership Conger, Learning to Lead Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Cribbin, Leadership: Strategies of Organizational Effectiveness Crosby, Mung, The Art of Becoming an Executive Daft and Lengel, Fusion Leadership Daft and Lengel, The Fourth Cell: Leadership Excellence DePree, Leading Without Power DePree, Leadership Is an Art DePree, Leadership Jazz Fiedler and Garcia, New Approaches to Effective Leadership for Integrity Gardner, On Leadership Gilmore, Making a Leadership Change Gitlow, Being the Boss: The Importance of Leadership and Power Glasser, The Control Theory Manager Greenleaf, Servant Leadership Haas, The Leader Within Heider, The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching in Action Herman, The Tao of Work: On Leading and Following Joiner, Leadership for Change Kelley, The Power of Followership Kets de Vries, Prisoners of Leadership Koestenbaum, Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness Kotter, Leading Change Kotter, The Leadership Factor Kouzes and Posner, Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It; Why People Demand It Kouzes and Posner, The Leadership Challenge Leavitt, Corporate Pathfinders Lee, The Power Principle Levinson and Rosenthal, CEO: Corporate Leadership Locke, The Essence of Leadership Loden, Feminine Ownership Luecke, Scuttle Your Ships Before Advancing: Lessons from History on Leadership and Change for Today's Managers Maccoby, The Leader Manz, The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus Manz and Sims, Super Leadership Marcinko, Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior McLean and Weitzel, Magic, Myth, or Method? Morrison, The New Leaders Nanus, The Leader's Edge Nanus, Visionary Leadership Pfeffer, Managing with Power Phillips, Lincoln on Leadership Portnoy, Leadership: What Every Leader Should Know about People Rehfield, The Alchemy of a Leader Robert, The Essence of Leadership: Strategy, Innovation, and Decisiveness Roberts, Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun Sayles, The Working Leader Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership Schwartzkopf, It Doesn't Take a Hero Shelton, Beyond Counterfeit Leadership Sims and Lorenzi, The New Leadership Paradigm Snyder and Graves, Vision, Values, and Courage: Leadership for Quality Management Spears, Reflections on Leadership Tichy and Cohen, The Leadership Engine Tichy and Devanna, The Transformational Leader Vaill, Management as a Performing Art Vaill, Spirited Leading and Learning Vroom and Jago, The New Leadership Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science Zaleznik, The Managerial Mystique Running Head: Effective Leadership Summary Of Effective Leadership Effective Leadership 2 Summary of an Effective Leadership The effective leadership is an important aspect not only to implement in the organization, but also in life for every person because it explores the quality of a person in the society. In other words, an effective leadership is a concept in this world from last several decades (Sperry, 2013). It has been followed by most of the leaders to manage people thinking and perception to establish a pillar of success in the market in terms of business or in life to make an environment of happiness. In this concern, this research paper is also based on an analysis of a book of an author related to leadership. Therefore, the book that has been taken for this paper is \"Effective Leadership: How to be a Successful Leader\" written by John Adair in the year 2009. Further, this research paper would be very helpful to increase understanding, and knowledge, and skills on the views of the author that how he has described about effective leadership. Moreover, it would be also helpful for other readers or scholar to develop their thinking on this topic. Author's Major Theme The major theme of the author in this book about the effective leadership is concerned with serving as a wise guide, encouraging friends, and a firm support to progress upon the path of leadership in this world. Now, this book describes that in the present scenarios, the concept and idea of leadership have changed because of the increasing education and more articulation of people. In this concern, the command over educated people has been reduced than before (Adair, 2011). Therefore, the need of good leaders has been increased to manage such type of people effectively and efficiently. At the same time, the author also states that the improvement of leadership capability is mandatory to handle the entire adverse situation created by people. In this, a person should Effective Leadership 3 stimulate awareness of leadership in all the aspects in a given situation. The awareness about the changing values of the society and industry can improve the understanding about the importance of the good leadership effectively. Additionally, a person should need to develop skills in order to provide necessary function as a leader. The author of this book also suggests that a leader should be clear in his or particular action with techniques in a wide sense, such as methods. This perception can help to achieve desired aim of becoming a good leader in the present challenging environment of society and industry (Adair, 2011). The need of establishment of the understanding about principles, and requirement of the leadership should not avoid the need of vital factor and should understand the whole spectrum of leadership behavior. The Presented Key Ideas The author of this book has clarifies that the principle or theory and experience are some conscious efforts to implement in the leadership. Further, the practical knowledge for a leader that works as main direction is the best way to use in the leadership activities to inspire people constructively. The personal experience is the main tool to acquire an effective leadership in life to increase the value of principles, guidelines, and or checklists of leadership in the society and in the industry. On the other side, the author of this book also states that leadership does not related with military, male or western by origin, but it is a universal human phenomenon that a leader holds. An effective leadership basically contains some materials of leadership, such as the qualities, functions, and principles (Adair, 2011). These leadership materials are basically required in any field of work to prove sufficient creative intelligence. In the absence of these leadership materials, the success of a leader in the industry cannot be considered except in the areas of own Effective Leadership 4 work place. Furthermore, the other quality of an effective leadership that needs to be considered by a leader is education and training in the context of wide span of relevance. Now, the key ideas of the author about the effective leadership to be a successful leader in any industry is also linked to follow understanding in order to unlock the door of action. The finding or research is required to formulate some effective concept of leadership to guide or sketch a map of clear goal and objectives. Additionally, the awareness about some areas, such as task, team, and individual that interact to each other are needed to be considered by a leader in the leadership to make the industry environment good. Apart from these three areas, leadership also includes various levels in the context of the organization to improve the growth of the business with the help of motivated employees. These levels of the leadership are known as team, operation, and strategy that play an important role to make a leader very successful in the organization (Adair, 2011). These levels that a leader can implement for the benefits of the organization are basically the need of time in the present working environment not only for the improvement of the management system of the organization, but also for the enhancement of productivity of workers effectively and efficiently. In the discussion of the effective leadership, the author also states in his book that some people contain inborn superiority that helps them to be an effective leader through dominating influence over their generations. Additionally, this inborn leadership quality sets as remarkable position for leadership. Further, the author also clarifies that born leader can emerge naturally because of qualities of mind, spirit, and character. The inborn qualities of mind, spirit, and character basically assured a title of a good leader for the organization. On the other side, the author states that a leader should have more qualities to show an effective leadership style in the organization, such as right judgment and initiative, as well as Effective Leadership 5 integrity. Moreover, foresight, energy, and human relation skill, as well as emotional stability, including fairness and ambition are also some qualities that an effective leader must follow to increase the confidence of the employees and productivity of the organization. Now, apart from these entire qualities of a good leader; dedication, objectivity, and cooperation are also few qualities that should be implemented leadership by a leader in the organization to maintain profitable working culture. In some kind of situations, leadership can be seen as representative and as generic qualities to establish an effective working situation. The qualities that can be describes for a leader are the representative quality that is expected in the working group. The physical courage is not enough to be a leader, but it needs large measure of qualities to show a good leadership. It is considered that a leader should make some effective characteristics of a group, such as compassion, and kindness, as well as warmth and courtesy. In the field of human endeavor; talents, interests, aptitudes, and general personality basically utilized as service point of view for other. These endeavors of a person always create a good image of a leader in the organization to influence employees and other top level management staff. Therefore, the true fact is that a leader should need to work hard in the early stages of life to explore the door of excellent leadership in the organization. Further, an effective leadership is termed as a true profession or trade in the business environment at the global level. In the next chapter in this book, the author demonstrates that certain personal qualities that effective leaders tend to have is basically need of time because globally people now look for in their leaders (Adair, 2011). Basically, the qualities of the leaders in the modern organizations are very different than the traditional leadership qualities. In this, enthusiasm, integrity, toughness and fairness are some qualities of leaders that are required in the present business Effective Leadership 6 world. But, the main qualities that should be included in the leadership are warmth, humanity, and humility to implement in the organization by leaders. The other most important aspects for the effective leadership quality are the development of leadership abilities that have been discussed by the author in this book. These leadership abilities that must be developed by the leaders can be considered as task, planning, and briefing in the organization. Controlling, evaluating, and motivating are also some important abilities that leaders can utilize in their leadership making decision. Apart from these, in most of the situation, organizing activity of a leader creates an effective environment of the company where the culture of coordination and cooperation between employees can be seen. Alternatively, the environment of an organization should also be helpful in development of leaders; otherwise, the expectations of good leadership cannot be possible. There should be leadership self-development program opportunity to the employees in the organization in future perspectives (Adair, 2011). Here, author describes that the practical application in the organization opens the door of learning that how to become a good leader and take challenging work to solve the problems. Further, the author also suggests that effective leadership needs very careful attention to learn about effective leadership practically. Addition to this, the worth of a leadership is considered as generic qualities, such as enthusiasm and integration. The enthusiasm fills courage and motivation in the employees to work only for the benefits of the organization. Further, the positive attitude that is also an essential quality of the leaders basically helps to maintain a balance between other qualities of the leadership effectively and efficiently. Effective Leadership 7 References Adair, J. (2011). Effective Leadership (NEW REVISED EDITION): How to Be a Successful Leader. UK: Pan Macmillan. Sperry, L. (2013). Effective Leadership: Strategies for Maximizing Executive Productivity and Health. USA: Routledge