Executive Summary Exercise Assignment

Module 7: Week 7 Introduction

Overview

There are many ways to approach the study of leadership. The trait approach emphasizes the personality characteristics of a leader, the skills approach emphasizes the leaders capabilities, and the behavioral approach emphasizes the individual behavioral characteristics of leaders. You will examine the trait and behavioral approach to leadership.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

Analyze how trait approach works.

Discuss the strengths and criticisms of the trait approach.

Describe the behavioral approach.

Create a unique leadership training and development program for a law enforcement department.

Analyze how a Christian Worldview can impact the development of a leadership development program for a law enforcement department.

Executive Summary Exercise Assignment

The student will write a 1-page Executive Summary Exercise Assignment. This summary shall be addressed to the Chief of Soma-Pseudo Police Department (or to the actual department head if the student is writing about the agency where he/she works). The Executive Summary Exercise Assignment is based upon the Research Paper Assignment in this course. The focus of this paper is to provide a decision-maker with a brief summary of the main/extended proposal (the Research Paper Assignment focuses on a leadership training program in this instance) so that the decision-maker can make an informed decision.