Consider ways in which leaders gain, sustain, and lose power. Then consider how a leader’s use and misuse of power might influence employee behavior and performance.
Create an experiment that tests the following scenario: You work for the Educational Curriculum Company as a curriculum developer. Your company has created a new reading program (E-Z-Read) to be used in elementary schools. Your task is to design a way of testing this new program at Desert Mountain Elementary School.
The principal has allowed you to have access to two classrooms: Miss Jones’s and Mrs. Brown’s classrooms.
Prepare a report of 500-750 words that describes the hypothesis, participants, experimental group, control group, independent variable, dependent variable, and how you are going to make the two groups equivalent at the beginning of the experiment.
Also, discuss why correlations and case studies would not be useful for this type of study.
Your paper must include a minimum of one source.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Only Word documents can be submitted to Turnitin.
Discussion 2: Case Study Application: Leadership Styles and Power
Consider ways in which leaders gain, sustain, and lose power. Then consider how a leader’s use and misuse of power might influence employee behavior and performance.
For this Discussion, review this week’s Learning Resources and the case study “Organizational Power and Politics” in Lussier & Achua (2015). Be sure to consider both foundational and contemporary theories of leadership and how they apply in this case. Also, consider the role of ethics in this case.
an analysis of the levels of leadership theory that are presented in this case. Also, be sure to examine ethical issues as they relate to this case. What ethical dilemmas could be occurring? What leadership styles are evident from the actions of Helen? Lastly, provide a brief exploration of two ways leaders can gain, sustain, or lose power and why.
