Measuring leadership using various instruments to gather data and how to apply it to an organization

Needed by Wednesday 10/17/2018 at 2pm EST

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

• Use the tools from the Required Readings for this topic.
• Use academic sources, including peer-reviewed journal articles, scholarly books, government reports, and other instructor-approved texts.

Directions:

Write a paper (2,000-2,250 words) that addresses the following:

1. Choose an existing organization or your own (mine is a small to mid financial organization, specializing in auto and home loans…not banking), and briefly describe it using the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework.
2. Using the Baldrige framework, outline that organization’s leadership structure and practices you’ve chosen to study.
3. Describe the evidence you find to identify that organization’s leadership style by using specific references from the research literature to support your description.
4. As a researcher of organizational leadership, how does the Baldrige framework help you assess organizational leadership? Identify any gaps in assessment the framework does not address, and describe them with references from other sources.