Research and define the differences in
the job responsibilities of a leader versus the job responsibilities of a
manager. Use the questions below to guide your research, which should include at
least two peer-reviewed articles from scholarly journals that are less than 5
years old. Prepare a paper in which you include your responses in APA paragraph format to the following:
·
Offer
definitions for leaders and managers.
·
Provide
the arguments for and against distinguishing leaders from managers.
·
Compare
and contrast effective leadership traits that have developed and evolved over
the past 40 years (or so) based on your research.
·
Determine
how managerial or leadership activities and behavior are affected by a level of
responsibility.
·
Provide
guidelines for defining job responsibilities and setting performance goals of
leaders and managers.
·
Explain
why some people argue that leadership is innate, and management is not.
Support your paper with a minimum of two
scholarly, peer-review sources and a total of four sources, including the
textbook. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate web
sources can be used.
Length: 5-7 pages, double-spaced, not
including title and reference pages.
The paper should be written in a third-party academic tone, not first person (no I, we, you, he, she). This assignment
is not focused on personal opinion, it is an objective-based assignment. And for
APA format examples please check the document I uploaded.