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Assignment

Traditional theories on leadership conceptualized leaders as “hero” actors who manage their organizational members towards achieving particular organizational objectives. More recent theories on leadership, e.g., transformational and charismatic leadership, are also based on the assumption that a single individual possesses all the leadership skills necessary for organizational success. In response to this heroic portrayal, alternative theories, e.g., shared leadership, have emerged that suggest that leadership is a collective phenomenon. According to this view, leadership is distributed and shared across distinct teams or organizational members.

Draft a brief text of about 15 – 20 lines (excluding the reference list) on whether you believe leadership is an individual or collective phenomenon, based on the 2 extracts of articles provided to you. The opinion article of Mintzberg (2004) published in Harvard Business Review was only intended as background reading, but you are free to refer to it as well.

More specifically:

* Think about your core argument (i.e. is leadership an individual or collective phenomenon?)

* Read the 2 extracts of articles (2 pages in total).

* Draft your text, explaining your view on leadership and make use of these articles in making your point. This means that you need to add these 2 references to the Word Reference Tool and cite them correctly when you draw upon them in your argumentation.

* Make sure that you use 1 direct quotation in your text.

* Include a reference list at the end of the document (using the Word referencing tool) in APA-style.

* Save your text and send it to wijk@msm.nl

You can think of the following structure for your text:

* Introduction of 2-3 lines or so on leadership (see above in the assignment description)

* Description/definition of the two forms of leadership – transformational leadership (assumed to be performed by a single individual) versus...