Introduction
For  this task, you will write a paper on an existing organization with  which you have had personal experience. The organization can be a  business or a nonprofit, and you may represent any level of the  organization (e.g., team, department, division, whole) in your analysis.
You  will first describe the chosen organization. Your description of the  organization should convey personal experience, rather than information  gained from secondhand sources or media coverage. You will then perform a  SWOT analysis on that organization. Last, you will analyze that  organization’s leadership.
Note:  Any information that would be considered confidential, proprietary, or  personal in nature should not be included in the actual task submission  to WGU. Do not include the actual names of people, suppliers, the  organization(s), or other identifiable information. Fictional names  should be used. Also, organization-specific data, including financial  information, should not be included but should be addressed in a general  fashion as appropriate. Work performed for clients and employers is  their property and should not be used without written permission.
Requirements
Your  submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of  30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one  individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from  sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when  you submit your task that can be used as a guide.
You  must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because  it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work.  Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect.  The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of  the course.
Write a paper ( suggested length of 10-16 pages) by doing the following:
A.  Describe an existing organization with which you have had personal experience and its objective(s).
1.  Describe threeleadership practices of the current leader, other than yourself, in the existing organization.
Note: Leadership practices are routine actions, behaviors, functions, and responsibilities that the current leader performs.
2.  Discuss how the current leader has affected organizational culture.
Note:  You may represent any level of the chosen organization (e.g., team,  department, division, whole) and the respective current leader in your  description.
B.  Conduct a SWOT analysis evaluating the chosen organization by doing the following:
1.  Evaluate twoof the organization’s current strengths.
2.  Evaluate twoof the organization’s current weaknesses.
3.  Evaluate twoof the organization’s current unmet opportunities.
4.  Evaluate twoof the organization’s current unresolved threats.
C.  Conduct a leadership evaluation of the current leader discussed in part A1, using oneof the scholarly leadership theories below that is different from task 1, by doing the following:
•  transformational leadership
•  transactional leadership
•  situational leadership
•  participative leadership
•  servant leadership
•  behavioral leadership
•  trait theory of leadership
1.  Evaluate threestrengths of the current leader, using the chosen scholarly leadership theory, including how eachstrength relates to the theory. Support the evaluation of the leader’s strengths with at least onescholarly source.
2.  Evaluate threeweaknesses of the current leader, using the chosen scholarly leadership theory, including how eachweakness relates to the theory. Support the evaluation of the leader’s weaknesses with at least  onescholarly source.
3.  Recommend threeactionable items to improve the effectiveness of the current leader, including how eachactionable item relates to the chosen scholarly leadership theory. Support the recommendations of actionable items with at least onescholarly source.
Note:  A scholarly source could be a reputable journal, a published book, or  any source from a university faculty member or business leader.  Scholarly sources also include any article or book in the online WGU  library.
D.   Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and  references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.