Crafting Problem Statements

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Everyday, leaders make decisions. Better decisions are made when a framework is used to identify the fundamental problem. The purpose of this paper is to use the problem statement framework to articulate the fundamental problem from two case studies. The first problem statement identifies a morale issue between members of a research project. The second problem statement identifies an interaction issue between a leader and four associate directors. The problem statements highlight factual information while analyzing and critiquing the problem.
Problem Statement #1
The first problem statement crafted uses the case study A Strained Research Team (Northouse, 2013, Case 3.1). This case study reveals the leader’s inability to use various skills from the skills approach. The problem statement identifies a morale issue impacted, not by the logistics of the research project, but by the leader’s limited leadership skills.
The federally funded Elder Care Project has a morale issue among the research staff. In the second year of the 3-year project, the staff realized the project was under b...

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