Please watch video & write reflection. Please for the personal experiences questions use your creativity and create a story.
For the Week 4 Textbook Reflection assignment, we are going to finish Chapter 4 (Power and Influence) and begin Chapter 14 (Contingency Theories of Leadership). I only have one question from each chapter for you to reflect on and answer. As with our previous assignments, show that you have read and made sense of the material from the book and show the material's application to your professional positions and lives.
The instructions (5-6 pages, double spaced, reflection-style, first-person, citation methods, etc.) With only two questions, you have more space to describe how (e.g., examples) you have seen these concepts come to life in the groups and organizations to which you belong.
The words that you provide in your responses are the only evidence we have that you have read, processed, and made sense of the material from the book.
As with last week, I recorded a video lecture to help give a little more substance and explanation to this week's textbook material. Here is a link to the video: https://youtu.be/y7DUuhWWVA4
Reflection Questions
1. Keep track of the strategies and ways that you influence others in the coming 1-3 days. Pay attention to your use of the different influence tactics described by Kipnis and associates (p. 129). Describe the situations you observed,analyze your choice of influence tactic(s), and reflect on the selected influence tactics' appropriateness or misuse. After consciously recognizing and analyzing your choices of influence strategies, what conclusions can you make about the ways that you influence others?
2. The contingency models of Fiedler and Hersey and Blanchard have similarities and differences. Fielder says that people tend to come in two different types–people or task. Hersey and Blanchard believe that people can adjust the required levels of people and task behaviors within different situations. What do you think? Give examples of situations where you, or others that you have observed, have been able to shift between leadership styles (e.g., tell, sell, participate, delegate) or when a dominant personality type drove leader-follower interactions.
