• Write this paper in third person.  
• Read through the entire task instructions and rubric requirements prior to completing task 2.  
• Use a different scholarly leadership theory in task 2 than the one chosen in task 1.
• The current leader that you choose must be someone other than yourself.
• Recommend to use the “Sample academic paper” when organizing your task. You are encouraged to create a cover page, a table of contents, headings, and subheadings.
• The paper should be 10–16 pages, not including cover page and references. Please be both descriptive (who, what, when, and where), and explanatory (why and how). Evaluators assess your paper based on the specificity of your response, not on the generalizations.  
• Note: Meeting the rubric criteria is more important than writing a number of pages.

Describe an existing organization with which you have had personal experience and where you have either had direct access to a leader or have been able to observe a leader.  Describe the organization’s objectives. The organization can be a for-profit or a nonprofit business, and you may represent any level of the organization (e.g., the team, department, division, or whole) in your analysis.

• You must change the name of the organization and employee names.
• Provide a detailed discussion of the organization. 
• Discuss the history and background of the organization. 
• Discuss the vision and mission of the organization. 
• Discuss the purpose and objectives of the organization. Think of the goals, financial objectives, and strategic objectives of the organization.
• Provide citations where needed.
   

In this section, you will provide specific descriptions of three leadership practices of the current leader. The current leader must be someone other than yourself.

• Provide specific examples that illustrate the practice.
• Cleary state the leaders title and (fictitious) name. The leader analyzed in A1 will be the same leader analyzed in C1, C2, and C3.
• Write a separate paragraph on each of the three practices.

Note: A leadership practice (or function) is different from a leadership theory. This section, A1, only discusses practice, not theory.
 
Example: One leadership practice of the CEO is to provide strategic leadership to the organization. In the performance of this responsibility, the CEO forms the organization’s vision and mission, while forming and implementing strategy. The value of strategic leadership is determining the organization’s direction by effectively managing the organization’s resources in pursuit of the organization’s vision. (This is a small draft of the leadership practice narrative. You are required to illustrate further how the individual performs the leadership responsibility and what value the responsibility provides to the organization). 

In this section, discuss how the current leader of the organization has affected the culture based on his or her underlying beliefs, assumptions, and values.

A leader’s values and beliefs shape the culture of an organization. Organizational culture is defined as the underlying beliefs, assumptions, values, and ways of interacting that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization.

• Describe how the leader has affected the organization’s culture in a positive or negative manner.
• Provide examples to support your analysis.