Leaders who succeed again and again are geniuses at noticing contextLinks to an external site.*.
In this assignment we begin to explore the remarkable significance of context. Please read the following articles.
Johns (2006) Context and Organization Behavior.pdf
Suderman (2012) Organizational Culture.pdf
Then read two of the following articles (you choose I have tried to include a well-rounded selection):
Shamir & Howell (1999) Context and charismatic leadership.pdf
Hamilton & Bean (2005) context and leadership development-2.pdf
Meijers et al (2006) context and research utilization.pdf
Porter & McLaughlin (2006) Leadership & context.pdf
Ehrhart et al (2014) Context and EBP utilization.pdf
Write a very short APA-styled paper (500 words) that focuses on the questions below. Share the paper with your learning set (i.e., group) for discussion and feedback. Revise the paper based on that discussion and peer review. Unless otherwise specified, you should assume all formal papers assigned in the program are expected to be written using APA style, and that the length guidelines address the body of the text only (i.e., not including title page, reference page, appendices, etc).
How would you describe the organizational context of your current institution**?
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w well aligned do you feel the organizational culture is with its explicitly stated goals?
How do you feel this organizational context aligns with your own leadership strengths and tendencies?
How can you use this understanding to inform choices at your current institution and/or beyond?
Please do not summarize the articles you dont have enough room in the paper for that! Synthesize what you have learned from reading four articles to answer the questions above. For this course let us define context as a construct that subsumes culture organizational culture should be considered one aspect of the organizational context.
*No need to buy and read the book just pointing it out in case someone wants to make note.
**If you are not currently working, consider past employment for this assignment. If you have never been employed and/or if employment was superficial to the extent that you find it hard to complete this assignment, you can substitute your family for the institution in this assignment. What is a family, after all, if not an organization? It is in our families that we typically first experience administration, management, and leadership in-context, and in which we seek to find ways to exercise leadership in-place (that is, without formal decision-making power).