This activity gives you the chance to assess past and current scholarly research addressing concepts related to a new problem and gap in practice. The business story you draw from allows you to analyze a problem and gap in a specific business context while analyzing how past and current literature informs your identified problem and gap.
Employer Expectations
The following skills, which apply to this assignment, frequently appear in articles, job posts, and university reports related to employer expectations of a doctoral degree holder:
Utilize evidence-based literature in guiding the development of solutions.
Express oneself clearly and professionally in writing.
Preparation
If you have not done so, practice choosing which excerpts from past and current literature support which gaps by completing the Practice Aligning Current and Past Literature activity. Identify at least two articles (one from the current literature, published within the last 3–5 years, and one from the past literature) that inform your selected problem and gap.
Also, review the business stories and choose a business you have not used in previous assignments.
Instructions
Using a business story other than the one you used in previous assignments, choose a problem and its related gap in practice. Choose from the three pairs of problems and gaps in practice linked and labeled for this assignment, which relate to the assignment topics.
Write a 4–5 page analysis in which you:
State the specific business problem and the gap in practice.
Discuss how the two articles you found for this assignment apply to current trends in the field of leadership, then add these sources to your Capstone Literature Matrix. Download the Capstone Literature Matrix [XLSX] Download Capstone Literature Matrix [XLSX]if you need a new copy.
Based on your selected problem, gap, and the past and current literature you have reviewed for this assignment, identify a related business problem and project using one of three topics appropriate for the field of leadership. Explain why this project would be a good fit to address the problem.
Explain why removing your personal biases from the literature discovery process might help you in identifying more applicable past and current research to provide supporting evidence for your topic and project.
Submit your analysis and literature matrix in the assignment area. Be sure to upload both documents before submitting the assignment.