Creating a Sense of Community

 Provide an overview of community building practices as stated in Kouzes and Posner (2017).  Identify at least three different organizational cultures and describe how they created an appreciation of diversity in order to build a stronger sense of professional community. These organizational cultures can be ones in which you have experienced personally, or have read about in the literature on leadership.  Research the existing body of peer reviewed literature and identify a contemporary leader who has worked or is working in a global context that is using or has used contingency theory. Assess how they effectively used contingency theory by identifying at least three supporting examples.  Describe an example of a culturally diverse team or organizational environment in which you have worked. Evaluate how your own cultural literacy promoted cohesiveness in that professional environment or how, looking back, you would have.  Describe specific actions taken to implement this style into your current leadership approach.  Summarize key learning lesson in order to promote cohesiveness in your own professional career path and include how to measure the effectiveness of this new approach.