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Leadership Interview and Summary Paper

Paper should cover the concepts:

1. Motivation, 2. Group Dynamics, 3. Organizational Structure

Assignment:

1. You will conduct an interview with an organizational leader to identify the key

organizational issues and challenges he/she faces regularly.

Selecting the person to be interviewed:

Ideally the person you will select for to interview will have worked for several years and

is older than 35. The more experienced at work and life the person is the more relevant

examples and information you will be able to elicit. The person should not be in your

immediate family (father, mother, etc.) nor be in a significant relationship with you.

The interview should be more of a conversation than just Q&A. Be sure to tell the person

the purpose of the interview and if the person is uncomfortable for his/her name to be

used, assure him/her that you will use an alias. In addition, do not share what was said in

the interview with others. This paper is for my eyes only.

2. You will develop a specific list of interview questions that you will ask during the

interview. As you design the interview questions, keep them open ended by starting

with words such as Who? What? When? Where? Why? How much? For example, what

positive ways have the leaders you have worked for over your career motivated you?

Please give specific examples of what the people did and what made those actions

“motivating” for you.

3. You will summarize the interview responses in an individual paper which includes:

1) an overview of the relevant theories and concepts from the chapters on motivation,

teams, and organizational structure/design.

2) the list of questions with a summary of the interview responses; and

3) recommendations on what could be changed or improved based on the interview

conducted.

Organize the paper with headings and sections. The paper needs to be APA style. It is

important that the overview of the relevant theories and your recommendations are all

well supported with in-text citations.

The objective of conducting this interview and writing this paper is to learn (in detail)

about the individual’s experience with each of the following important areas of

Organizational Behavior:

• How people are motivated at work (and what demotivates them)

• Successful and unsuccessful groups and teams and how the teams’ effectiveness

(or lack thereof) impact organizational performance and productivity

• Organizational structure (how people are arranged into teams/departments on the

organization chart), specifically the impact of Hierarchy and

Centralization/Decentralization (and span of control, division of labor, etc.) on

individual’s ability to solve problems and make decisions.

Due Date: July 23rd

Leadership Interview Grading Rubric:

______ Motivation (30 points possible)

1. _______ Summary of at least two theories on Motivation (10 pts)

2. _______ Clear, crisp summary of interview responses; linked to the theories

on Motivation (#1 above) (15 pts)

3. _______ Clearly articulated recommendations of actions to improve motivation (5

pts)

______ Groups and Teams (30 points possible)

1. _______ Summary of at least three theories/concepts (10 pts)

2. _______ Clear, crisp summary of interview responses; linked to the theories

summarized in #1 above (15 pts)

3. _______ Clearly articulated recommendations of actions to improve teams (5 pts)

______ Organizational Structure (30 points possible)

1. _______ Summary of at least two theories (10 pts)

2. _______ Clear, crisp summary of interview responses; linked to the theories

summarized in #1 above (15 pts)

3. _______ Clearly articulated recommendations of actions to improve org. structure

(5 pts)

_______ Overall Writing and Integration of Interview Responses with OB Concepts

(10 pts)

Well written, clear and specific information, meaningful information

gathered from the interview. 4 – 6 pages, single spaced, 12-point font, 1

inch margins.

_______ Total (100 possible)

Grading Scale

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