Select a leadership theory from the following list: (contingency/situational leadership theory)
Answer the following questions in a 2-page descriptive essay. Include each question as a section heading before you write out your answer.
- Explain what your assigned leadership theory means in your own words? Would this be a leadership theory that would embody the kind of leader you want to be? Why or why not?
- Why would you want to work for someone who embodied your chosen theory? Explain what it would be like working for that type of person.
- Imagine that a person embodying the theory you were assigned is a large outpatient medical clinic administrator. The staff at this clinic are 4 doctors, 2 nurses, 3 receptionists, and 4 medical assistants. The clinic primarily sees low-income older adults, mostly covered by Medicare Insurance. The clinic is in an older part of the city and is accessible by public transportation. The staff at this clinic have all worked together for many years, except for two of the receptionists, who were recently hired. Answer the following questions and explain your answers:
- How would your assigned leadership theory work well for the administrator of this medical clinic?
- Where might your assigned leadership theory not work so well?
- Which leadership style do you think would work best for this scenario?
Details:
- Display college-level writing in Standard English free of spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors.
- The essay should be double-spaced and 12-point Times New Roman.
- Quotation marks and citations make authorship clear.
- Writing should be well-ordered, logical, unified, original, and insightful.
- Assignment is 2 pages long, not including the title and reference pages.
- Includes academic references with correct in-text citations.
- In addition to fulfilling the specifics of the assignment, APA citation style* should be followed.
