Narrative Critique of a Qualitative Research Study

The study outlined in the article is well organized in its major parts, including introduction, literature review, methodology, results, and discussions. The introduction provides the research question and purpose, while the remaining parts provide sufficient data to help in justifying the hypothesis and rationale of the study.

The introduction of the article explains all the important aspects of the study; the study is about using the bona fide group aspect to examine leadership. The introduction also explicitly indicates the aim of the study, which is to investigate the leadership process and success from a bona fide group’s perspective (Galanes, 2003, p. 742).

The literature review of the article by Galanes (2003) is well organized with different subheadings such as “What Do Leaders Do” (743), “Self Monitoring” (746) and “What Do Leaders Think” (747). The subheadings enabled the researcher to explain the major aspects of leadership exhaustively. The review examines studies and literatures, such as LaFasto and Larson (2001) and Bowman (1997), which support the purpose of the curren...