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Overview

The business story you draw from for this activity allows you to analyze a problem and gap in a specific business context while describing practitioner and scholarly frameworks (meaning written for a business or academic audience) applicable to your identified problem. You will build on your earlier experience assessing a gap in practice by finding and assessing appropriate frameworks for a different problem and gap in practice you choose.

Employer Expectations

The following skills, which apply to this assignment, frequently appear in articles, job posts, and university reports related to what employers expect of a doctoral degree holder:

• Know how to forecast and evaluate risks including financial risks, time-oriented risks, or risks that might affect professional relationships. Know how to identify procedures and methodologies that will help avoid or mitigate these risks.
• Know how to filter through research data and identify relevant information. Know how to gather and understand information, and how to utilize this information to devise the most appropriate actionable intelligence.

Preparation

If you have not done so, practice choosing which framework best describes a problem and gap in the activity Practice Aligning Frameworks.

Also, review the business story for the business you chose for the Evidence for Gaps in Practice assignment or choose one of the other two businesses and view the corresponding business story.

Instructions

Select a second problem and related gap in practice from the same business story you used in your first assignment or choose a problem and gap from one of the other two businesses. Choose from the problems and gaps linked and labeled for this assignment, which relate to the assignment topics.

Research practitioner (business) and scholarly (academic) articles that inform your selected gap in practice.

Write a 4–5 page analysis in which you:

• State the specific business problem and the gap in practice.
• Identify two frameworks, one practitioner and one scholarly, from your researched articles that inform your selected gap in practice and provide evidence for the selected gap in practice. Discuss how they apply to current trends in the field of leadership. Then add these sources to your Capstone Literature Matrix, fully completing the matrix categories. Download the if you need a new copy.
• Explain why the frameworks you identified properly align with the selected specific problem and gap in practice. Why are these the right frameworks versus others?
• Based on your selected problem, gap, and frameworks, identify a related business problem and potential business project appropriate for the field of leadership.
• Describe why removing your personal biases from the literature discovery process might help you in identifying more relevant research to provide evidence for your topic and project.

Submit your analysis and literature matrix in the assignment area.

Additional Requirements

As you complete your assignment, be sure your submission meets the following guidelines:

• Capstone Literature Matrix: Submit the completed literature matrix filled for your selected articles.
• Written communication: Use error-free doctoral-level writing, with original (nonplagiarized) content, logical phrasing, and accurate word choices.
• APA formatting: Format all references and citations according to the current APA style and formatting guidelines. Visit the section of the Writing Center for help with APA.
• Font and font size: Use a consistent, APA-compliant font, 12 points.
• Length: Submit a 4–5 double-spaced page analysis plus your literature matrix.
• File naming protocol: Follow the standard naming conventions for any files you upload. Refer to the for details.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Create academically sound annotations into a matrix of literature to support business research of problems and practices occurring in the field of leadership.
  • Make annotations in a literature matrix that convey how the literature provides adequate evidence for the problem, gap, and project need.
• Competency 2: Critically integrate existing relevant literature to determine an important and meaningful gap in practice for leadership.
  • Identify examples of scholarly and practitioner frameworks that provide evidence for a chosen gap in practice.
• Competency 3: Identify personal bias to create project topics in leadership based on need versus want.
  • Describe the role of removing personal biases in the project discovery process.
• Competency 4: Analyze and assess gaps in practice in leadership to consider specific actionable responses to the gaps.
  • Provide a well-supported rationale showing how selected frameworks properly align with a specific problem and gap in practice.
• Competency 5: Analyze trends in the field of leadership as drivers of business problems and gaps in practice.
  • Discuss how selected scholarly and practitioner frameworks apply to current trends in the field of leadership.
• Competency 6: Integrate results from multiple sources to formulate a problem and rationalize a business project in the field of leadership.
  • Identify a business problem and project appropriate for the field of leadership.
  • Use varied sentence structures and correct grammar to convey clear meaning and engage readers.
  • Applies APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.