[SOLVED] Leadership Case study analysis.

PSY 614: Final Project Guidelines and Grading Guide
Overview
The final project for this course is a leadership case study analysis. You will be given a specific case study that centers on leadership strategies to form the foundation of your analysis. Using this case study, you must apply the theories and concepts from the course to interpret and formulate answers to certain
guiding questions. Finally, you must create a professional presentation that presents your entire case study analysis effectively. In the presentation, you will present your findings and recommendations, including answers to all guiding questions, as a consultant would present his or her analysis to a company. The
project is divided into three milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Four, Six, and Eight. The final product will be submitted in Module Ten.
This assessment will assess your mastery with respect to the following course outcomes:
 Evaluate leadership strategies for the extent to which they reflect flexibility, promote sustainability, foster effective change management, and further
organizational goals for a given context
 Select appropriate, innovative leadership strategies for solving authentic problem scenarios
 Assess the effectiveness of and recommend modifications to leadership techniques based on employee research and performance metrics data
Prompt
Use the case study Fortuga Artisans, Inc. for the following prompt.
For your leadership case study analysis, you must create a professional presentation and apply the theories and concepts from the course to interpret and
formulate answers to the following guiding questions:
 What are the problems and issues discussed in the case study? Illustrate each with specific examples and connect them back to course principles.
 How did or how should the organization employ leadership strategies that reflect flexibility, promote sustainability, foster effective change management,
and further organizational goals? Defend your evaluation and choices.
 What is your assessment plan? Describe your plan based on the leadership strategies that have been employed as well as any additional strategies you
recommend to be employed. Include a plan for assessment that incorporates employee feedback and performance metrics data. What should be
measured? How should it be measured to ensure validity and reliability? How should that data be interpreted and acted upon?
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
1. Leadership Strategies: Evaluation – Using the case study, describe the overall leadership strategies employed. Specifically address the following:
a. Flexibility – To what extent does the leadership strategy of the company within the case study reflect flexibility? What evidence is given for the
basis of your reasoning?
b. Sustainability – Does the leadership strategy promote sustainability? Why?
c. Change management – Does the leadership strategy foster effective change management? Why or why not?
d. Organizational goals – Does the leadership strategy further organizational goals? Give examples.
2. Leadership Strategies: Selection – Within the case, what are the leadership problems? Select appropriate leadership styles, approaches, and strategies
for solving the problem(s) based on the following:
a. Appropriateness – Which leadership strategies are appropriate for use in solving the problems identified within the case study? Discuss their
appropriateness in terms of style, approach, and strategy.
b. Innovation – Are the leadership strategies innovative? Why or why not?
3. Assessment Plan – Develop an assessment plan based on leadership strategies that have previously been employed and any recommended changes to
be employed. This assessment plan should include the following:
a. Effectiveness – Assess the effectiveness of the current leadership strategies based on the following:
i. Employee research
ii. Performance metric data
b. Recommendations – Propose an assessment plan that incorporates employee feedback and performance metrics data, addresses the data to be
collected, discusses how to ensure validity and reliability, and incorporates interpretation and future actions.
Note: Principles of an effective presentation can be found at the end of this document.
Milestones
Milestone One: Problems and Issues
In task 4-3, submit a 2–3-page paper. What are the problems and issues discussed in the case study? Establish a context by providing an overview of leadership
style, approach, and strategy. Then illustrate each problem in the case with specific examples and connect them to leadership style, approach, and strategy. The
format should be a Word document, written in APA style and cited appropriately. This milestone will be graded using the Milestone One Rubric. The feedback
provided by the instructor should be applied to your final leadership case study analysis.
Milestone Two: Leadership Strategy
In task 6-2, submit a 3–4-page paper identifying the leadership strategies that were employed by the organization described in the case study, how they were
employed, and any additional strategies that could be employed to reflect flexibility, promote sustainability, foster effective change management, and further
organizational goals. Explain how your recommended strategies should be employed. Defend your evaluation and choices. The format should be a Word
document, written in APA style and cited appropriately. This milestone will be graded using the Milestone Two Rubric. The feedback provided by the instructor
should be applied to your final leadership case study analysis.
Milestone Three: Assessment Plan
In task 8-2, submit a 3–4-page paper that describes your assessment plan based on the leadership strategies that have been employed as well as any additional
strategies you have recommended be employed. Be sure to include employee feedback and performance metrics data. What should be measured? How should it
be measured to ensure validity and reliability? How should that data be interpreted and acted upon? The format should be a Word document, written in APA
style and cited appropriately. This milestone will be graded using the Milestone Three Rubric. The feedback provided by the instructor should be applied to your
final leadership case study analysis.
Final Product: Leadership Case Study Analysis: Final Professional Presentation
In task 10-3, submit the final leadership case study analysis. This is submitted as a professional presentation. It should be a completed product that meets all of
the critical elements outlined above. This is graded with the Final Product Rubric (below).
Deliverable Milestones
Milestone Deliverables Module Due Grading
1 Problems and Issues Four Graded separately; Milestone One Rubric
2 Leadership Strategy Six Graded separately; Milestone Two Rubric
3 Assessment Plan Eight Graded separately; Milestone Three Rubric
Final Product: Leadership Case Study
Analysis: Final Professional Presentation
Ten Graded separately; Final Product Rubric
Final Product Rubric
Requirements of submission: The final presentation must include a minimum of 14 slides but no more than 24 slides, including opening and closing slides (one
slide should be included as an introduction and one slide should be included as a closing slide). Any resources used to support the presentation must be properly
cited in APA format. There is no requirement on the number of resources.
Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Leadership Strategies:
Evaluation
(Flexibility)
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and
evaluation is substantiated by
scholarly research
Adequately evaluates the
extent of flexibility of the
leadership strategy
Does not sufficiently evaluate
the extent of flexibility of the
leadership strategy
Does not include an evaluation
of the flexibility of the
leadership strategy
7
Leadership Strategies:
Evaluation
(Sustainability)
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and
evaluation is substantiated by
clear and specific examples
Adequately evaluates how the
leadership strategy promotes
sustainability
Does not sufficiently evaluate
how the leadership strategy
promotes sustainability
Does not include an evaluation
of the sustainability of the
leadership strategy
7
Leadership Strategies:
Evaluation
(Change
Management)
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and
evaluation is substantiated by
scholarly research
Adequately evaluates how the
leadership strategy fosters
change management
Does not sufficiently evaluate
how the leadership strategy
fosters change management
Does not include an evaluation
of how the leadership strategy
fosters change management
7
Leadership Strategies:
Evaluation
(Organizational Goals)
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
evaluation is substantiated by
scholarly research
Adequately evaluates how the
leadership strategy furthers
organizational goals
Does not sufficiently evaluate
how the leadership strategy
furthers organizational goals
Does not include an evaluation
of how the leadership strategy
furthers organizational goals
7
Leadership Strategies:
Selection
(Appropriateness)
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
the appropriateness is well
defined through the use of
specific concrete examples
Includes the appropriate
leadership strategy and
qualifies the appropriateness in
terms of style, approach, and
strategy
Includes a leadership strategy
but does not sufficiently show
its appropriateness
Does not include an
appropriate leadership strategy
14
Leadership Strategies:
Selection
(Innovation)
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
evaluation is substantiated by
clear and specific examples
Adequately evaluates the
extent of innovation of the
leadership strategy
Does not sufficiently evaluate
the extent of innovation of the
leadership strategy
Does not include the extent of
innovation of the leadership
strategy
14
Assessment Plan
(Effectiveness)
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
evaluation is substantiated by
clear and specific examples
Provides an assessment plan
that evaluates effectiveness
based on both employee data
and performance metric data
Assessment plan does not
sufficiently evaluate
effectiveness based on both
employee data and
performance metric data
Does not include an assessment
plan that evaluates
effectiveness based on both
employee data and
performance metric data
14
Assessment Plan
(Recommendation)
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
evaluation is substantiated by
scholarly research
Incudes a well-developed
discussion on how to interpret
the data and apply the results
to future actions
Does not sufficiently discuss
how to interpret the data and
apply the results
Does not include a discussion
on how to interpret the data
and apply the results to future
actions
14
Organization Slides are organized in a way
that is logical and that
complements the central
theme(s); transitions are wellpaced to create a natural and
engaging flow
Slides are organized in a way
that is logical, and transitions
are paced so that the material
is easily accessible
Slides are organized in a way
that is mostly logical, and
transitions are paced so that
the material can be understood
with focus and effort
Slides are organized in a way
that is illogical OR transitions
are paced so that the material
cannot be understood
8
Written Narration Submission is free of errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, and
organization and is presented in
a professional and easy-to-read
format
Submission has no major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
Submission has major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that negatively impact
readability and articulation of
main ideas
Submission has critical errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that prevent understanding of
ideas
8
Earned Total 100%
Principles of an Effective Presentation:
 You may utilize a product such as Microsoft’s PowerPoint, Adobe Captivate, Prezi, or Google Presentation to create your presentation.
 There are various template designs that you can find on the web for your presentation. However, first consider your presentation from the perspective of
your audience prior to selecting a specific style. Distracting backgrounds, large blocks of text, all-uppercase fonts, elaborate font styles, grammatical
errors, and misspellings are distracting. Be consistent with the style of text, bullets, and sub-points in order to support a powerful presentation that
allows your content to be the focus.
 Each slide should include your key point(s). Do not place large blocks of text on the visual. Your presentation is not a means of presenting a short paper.
In an actual presentation you would not “read” from your slides but rather use them as prompts.
 Any notes or narration you would use in delivering this presentation to a group should be listed in the “notes” section of the slide.
 References should be listed at the bottom of the slide in slightly smaller text.
 Use clip art, AutoShapes, pictures, charts, tables, and diagrams to enhance but not overwhelm your content.
 Be mindful of the intended audience and seek to assess the presentation’s effectiveness by gauging audience comprehension (when possible)
Types of Presentation Media: Text, charts/graphs, photos, clipart, video, audio, links, word clouds, infographics, flowcharts, interactive components, animation,
maps, transitions, graphic organizer, screenshots, storyboards, illustrations
Below are some links that offer helpful tips and examples for developing your presentations:
Making PowerPoint Slides
Beyond Bullet Points: The Better Way to Use PowerPoint
10 Tips to Help Master Prezi
Harvard Business: Create an Effective Presentation
Below are some links that offer helpful tips and information that support self-publishing activity:
UNC-Chapel Hill: Publishing Microsoft PowerPoint
Publishing Narrated PowerPoint Presentations
TR Dojo: Video: Create a Self-Running PowerPoint Presentation
Google Presentation 5 Presenting & Publishing
Recording and Publishing Adobe Captivate Software Simulations
Publish Your Prezi