LEADERSHIP STYLE ASSESSMENT

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LEADERSHIP STYLE ASSESSMENT

Universityof South Florida College of Nursing

NUR 4828C Essentials of Healthcare Leadership and Management

A#8 Leadership Style Assessment Paper

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

The purpose of this assignment is to provide students with the opportunity to assess their leadership style and personality type and to apply content covered in the course as it relates to their specific leadership style and personality type. Please review the instructions, grading rubric and relevant course content before you begin the assignment. There is also a template that has been developed for this assignment to assist with APA formatting and organization of the paper. It is located next to the Detailed Instructions and Rubric links located at the bottom of the Canvas instructions for the assignment.

If you would like formative feedback on your work prior to final submission for grading, the
formative paper must be submitted on or before the due date identified on the Course Schedule.  The formative paper is to be submitted through the Assignment Link in Canvas.  The summative paper will also be submitted through this link. In order to obtain a formative review the submission should represent the completed assignment paper; partial papers and papers submitted after the formative due date cannot be reviewed. Formative papers submitted over the page limit will not be reviewed.

All papers in this course are to be checked for plagiarism using the Turnitin Program prior to submission.  This assignment (both Formative and Summative papers) must be submitted to the special Turnitin Check: Leadership Style Assessment assignment link to screen for plagiarism.  This must be done for your formative (if applicable) or final paper prior to submission of your paper(s) to this assignment link. Papers with Turnitin scores equal to or greater than 25% must be reviewed and revised and resubmitted to the Turnitin Check link. The final Turnitin score is to be recorded in the “add a comment” section when the final paper is submitted. 

This assignment is worth 20 points and constitutes 20% of your grade for this course.  The summative assignment is due on the date identified on the course schedule.

Before you begin this assignment you should have completed:

A. The assigned readings.

B. The Leadership Style Assessment found on the University of Kent website:

https://www.kent.ac.uk/ces/sk/leadership.html

Note: You may base your answers on how you behave now as a formal or informal leader in your unit/organization.

C. The Jung Typology Test found on the HumanMetrics website:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

Note: When you complete this assessment, your personality “type”. Based upon four (4) traits (e.g., INFJ) will be identified. Links are available on the website to two or more interpretations of your specific personality type. Also note that one rarely fits 100% of the characteristics/description of a personality type, but this test is fairly accurate in revealing your innate temperament/tendencies.

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS

Using the results of the two assessments, the readings and research, prepare a paper that discusses your leadership style, personality type and a leadership competency. Use the outline below to frame your discussion. The paper must be no longer than four (4) pages. This page limit does not include the title or reference pages. Papers that are over four (4) pages are not to be submitted and will not be accepted for the assignment. As this is an assessment of
your
leadership potential therefore you may write this paper in first person. However, if you chose to write in first person, it will be important to retain a scientific and scholarly focus for the tone of the paper. All factual, dates, data and outcome statements need to contain citations. The examples you use to demonstrate your leadership style and traits should be related to your role as a formal or informal nurse leader and be work-related. Please limit all discussions and examples to work-related activities.

A. Paper Content

1. Leadership Style Assessment

a. Describe or define the leadership style that has been attributed to you by the University of Kent tool.
Do not
give your scores or describe the University of Kent tool. If your leadership style was defined equally by two styles/potentials, then choose the one
that you believe best describes you and define that one (only discuss one style). Give examples of how you demonstrate this style either in formal or informal leadership roles in the nursing practice arena.

b. Describe one specific situation in which your identified leadership style will be most effective or appropriate to employ. Use references to support your discussion.

c. Describe one specific situation in which you would need to change your leadership style to be most effective as a leader. Use references to support your discussion.

2. Jung Typology

a. Identify the results of your Jung Typology type assessment by identifying your four personality traits (e.g. INTJ).
Do not
include a list of percentages or numbers associated with the identified traits nor a discussion of each individual trait, but rather focus on the overall personality type as identified by the four traits (e.g. INTJ). Describe your overall personality type (e.g. INTJ). Information regarding your type can be found on the HumanMetrics website or from another source. Identify if you agree or disagree with the overall personality type.

b. Describe how your personality type can help or inhibit you when you are faced with change.

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. Leadership Competency Development

a. Major leadership skills/competencies include: change management, communications, delegation, or managing conflict (see chapters 8, 19, 20 & 21 in textbook) Select one
of these competencies that you believe you need to further develop. Define and describe this chosen competency, use references to support your discussion.

b. Discuss how your personality type will influence the development of the competency you selected in section a (above).

B. Writing Guidelines

1. Be sure to follow APA formatting guidelines for your paper. This paper may be written in first person, singular. (Use pronouns: I, me, mine)

2. Headings are required and must be used in the body of the paper. (See page 62 in the APA Manual). Do not use Roman numerals, letters or numbers in headings.

3. Since there is generally a very limited use of direct quotes in scholarly and scientific literature, direct quotes cannot be used in this paper and all papers in this course.

4. Write the paper based on the assumption that the reader knows nothing about the topic or purpose of your paper—as you would if you were preparing a manuscript for publication. However, you do not need to and should not describe how the University of Kent and HumanMetrics tools are designed (e.g., do not say, “I answered 50 questions…” Or the University of Kent Assessment consists of 50 questions and is scored…”)

5. There is a minimum of
five (5)
references required for this paper.

a. All references should be dated, unless the date is not available and source is a widely recognized, authoritative website (e.g. CDC, CMS.gov, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Joint Commission HHS.gov, etc.).

b. Three of the references must be recent, from evidence-based and/or peer-reviewed sources, and used to support your ideas and responses. Your text can serve as one of these three peer-reviewed sources. The other two references must be the University of Kent and HumanMetrics websites (see last page for formatting). .

6. Be sure to check your Turnitin score prior to final submission and review the findings and revise as necessary. Your paper
must
be revised if your score is equal to or exceeds 25%.

C. Required components/elements of the paper include:

1. Title page with required elements as outlined in the APA manual

2. Introductory paragraph follows placement of the title of your paper centered at the top of page two (2). It introduces your reader to the subject of your paper and the major concepts that will be presented in the paper. It should not indicate that this is a course assignment.

3. Body includes the discussion of the three topics reviewed above and then outlined below. Organize the body using the Level 1 and Level 2 section headings below. See page 62 in the APA manual for information on use of section headings.

4. Summary one or more paragraphs summarizing key points from the body of the paper

5. Reference list a total of five (5) recent (within 5 years), evidence-based and/or peer-reviewed references are required, of which two (2) will be the required websites and three (3) other references. All references must contain dates of publication (with the exception of the websites listed in assignment) and be in alphabetical order.

D. Required Format and Headings:

1. Title Page

2. Introductory Paragraph (no heading to be used)

3. Body of Paper

I. Leadership Style Assessment (Level 1 heading)

A. My Leadership Style (Level 2 heading)

B. Effective Use of this Leadership Style (Level 2 heading)

C. Need to Change Leadership Style (Level 2 heading)

II. Jung Typology Personality Type (Level 1 heading)

A. My Jung Typology (Level 2 heading)

B. Response to Change (Level 2 heading)

III. Leadership Competency (Level 1 heading)

A. (Selected)* Leadership Competency (Level 2 heading)

B. Influence of Personality Type on Developing Competency (Level 2 heading) *
insert name of competency you selected

4. Summary (Level 1 heading)

5. References on a separate page and placed in alphabetical order

E. Correct APA Information for Required Websites:

This is the correct reference and format for the University of Kent and HumanMetrics websites. Both should be included on your reference page and you should also reference when using in your paper.

University of Kent. (n.d.). How to find out your style of leadership. Retrieved from

https://www.kent.ac.uk/ces/sk/leadership.html

HumanMetrics. (n.d.). Identify your type with Jung typology test. Retrieved from

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

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NUR 4828C Leadership Assessment Rev. 4.17 Rev. 5.19

Running head: [Shortened Title up to 50 Characters] 1

[Shortened Title up to 50 Characters] 5

[Title Here, up to 12 Words, on One to Two Lines]

[Author Name(s), First M. Last, Omit Titles and Degrees]

[Institutional Affiliation(s)]

[Title Here, up to 12 Words, on One to Two Lines]

The introduction follows the title placement and the first line is indented of all paragraphs. The introduction typically includes two broad item: a brief overview or introduction to the topic of the paper (What is leadership?), and an identification of the main topics (as listed in each heading: personality, etc…) that you will discuss in the paper. One suggestion is to use the phrase …the purpose of this paper is to… to help frame your introduction. Be sure to follow APA formatting guidelines for your paper. This paper may be written in first person, singular. (Use pronouns: I, me, mine). Do not lose sight of the fact that this paper should retain a scientific and scholarly focus.

Leadership Style Assessment

Give a brief introduction to what the University of Kent’s Leadership Style assessment is and how it contributed to your paper. Only 3-4 sentences are needed in this section. You do not need to and should not describe how the University of Kent and HumanMetrics tools are designed (e.g., do not say, “I answered 50 questions…” Or the University of Kent Assessment consists of 50 questions and is scored…”). This section, just introduces the reader to this section of the paper so your reader can follow along.

My Leadership Style

Describe or define the leadership style that has been attributed to you by the University of Kent tool (be sure to include the citation as to where this information was obtained from).
Do not
give your scores or describe the University of Kent tool. If your leadership style was defined equally by two styles/potentials, then choose the one
that you believe best describes you and define that one (only discuss one style). In a few statements, define or describe the style (so your reader knows what the style is and be sure to use citations to identify the sources of your information). Finally, identify is you agree or don’t with the style designation and provide examples of how you demonstrate (or don’t demonstrate – if you do not agree with the designation) this style either in formal or informal leadership roles in the nursing practice arena.

Effective Use of This Leadership Style

Introduce this section using a transition statement, and then describe one specific situation in which your identified leadership style will be most effective or appropriate to employ. Use references to support your discussion (Marquis & Houston, 2015 serves as a great reference here!).

Need to Change Leadership Style

Introduce this section using a transition statement. Next, consider the types of situations when this leadership style would not be most effective and would need to change. Then describe one specific situation in which you would need to change your leadership style to be most effective as a leader. Use references to support your discussion.

Jung Typology Personality Type

Remember to describe information used in your paper as if the reader knows nothing about the sources or topics. In this section, use 3-4 sentences to briefly describe what Jung Typology is on the HumanMetrics website (use citations).

My Jung Typology

Identify the results of your Jung Typology type assessment by identifying your designated personality type (e.g. INTJ), one of the 16 found on the website.
Do not
include a list of percentages or numbers associated with the identified traits nor a discussion of each individual trait, but rather focus on the overall personality type as identified by the four traits (e.g. INTJ). Describe your overall personality type (e.g. INTJ). Information regarding your type can be found on the HumanMetrics website or from another source. Be sure to provide citations for all sources of the information. Identify if you agree or disagree with the overall personality type.

Response to Change

Provide a transition to this section. Describe how your personality type can help or inhibit you when you are faced with change. Be sure to use literature to identify sources of the information and provide citations.

Leadership Competency

In this section, introduce your selected leadership competency that could use further development. Major leadership skills/competencies include: change management, communications, delegation, or managing conflict (see chapters 8, 19, 20 & 21 in textbook) Select one
of these competencies that you believe you need to further develop.

(Selected) Leadership Competency

Define and describe this chosen competency, be sure to use citations to support your discussion.

Influence of Personality Type on Developing Competency

Discuss how your personality type will influence the development of the competency you selected in the section above. (Consider how your personality type relates to acquisition, or not, of the leadership competency and what you will need to do to further develop).

Summary

The summary must be specific to the content of your paper and summarizes the conclusions you have made about the two assessments (leadership style and personality type) and the leadership competency. New content should not be introduced in the summary and therefore generally citations are not needed in the summary.

References

HumanMetrics. (n.d.). Identify your type with Jung typology test. Retrieved from

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

University of Kent. (n.d.). How to find out your style of leadership. Retrieved from

http://www.kent.ac.uk/ces/sk/leadership.html

There is a minimum of
five (5)
references required for this paper. All references should be dated, unless the date is not available and source is a widely recognized, authoritative website (e.g. CDC, CMS.gov, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Joint Commission HHS.gov, etc.). Three of the references must be recent, from evidence-based and/or peer-reviewed sources, and used to support your ideas and responses. Your text can serve as one of these three peer-reviewed sources. The other two references must be the University of Kent and HumanMetrics websites.