High Performance Management
Written Assignment: Writing a Persuasive Briefing Document
In this assignment, you are the retiring CEO of a very successful business. You plan to leave your current position within one year. As a result, you have developed a 7-10 page briefing document that will persuade the Board to hire a new CEO who is a high performance manager. Using what you have learned in this module, your assignment is to persuade the Board to hire a high performance manager. In other words, you must figure out and explain to the Board why it is so important for the Board to hire someone who possesses the characteristics of a high performance manager.
Be sure to use citations to the readings to support your arguments for each of the characteristics that you feel are important for the CEO as a high performance manager to possess in order to lead the company to success.
Your briefing document should contain recommendations based on the most important characteristics of a transformational or high performance manager. Using examples from the course readings in this module, properly cited using APA style, your briefing document should integrate the most critical traits of an authentic leader to demonstrate how these are interrelated. Your document must contain specific examples to support your recommendations.
Your briefing document should be well–organized, rigorously objective, and faithful to the evidence about high performance and transformational leaders presented in Module 3’s assigned readings. The goal of this assignment is to not just dump data but to thoughtfully develop a persuasive argument about why a high performance manager is essential for the company.
Your document must be succinct and clearly written. You must use examples (e.g., texts and articles) from the Module readings as evidence to support your recommendations.
Organizational Specifics
Use Times Roman 12 point pitch, double-spaced.
Use APA style citations (Smith, 2003).
Include the following sources in paper:
• Beattie, R. S., Kim, S., Hagen, M. S., Egan, T. M., Ellinger, A. D., & Hamlin, R. G. (2014). Managerial coaching: A review of the empirical literature and development of a model to guide future practice. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 16(2), 184-201.
• Gellerman, S. W. (1986). Why good managers make bad ethical choices. Harvard Business Review, 64(4), 85-97.
• Porter, M. E., & Kramer, M. R. (2006). The link between competitive advantage and corporate social responsibility. Harvard Business Review, 8(12), 78-92.
• Tucker, B. A., & Russell, R. F. (2004). The influence of the transformational leader. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 10(4), 103-111.
