This assignment asks you to identify your core values and analyse how your values align with wise leadership behaviours. Central to the task is that you understand how to align your values with behaviours that support and are consistent with those values. For example, if a core value is generosity what kinds of generous behaviours would support and be consistent with your preferred ways of embodying generosity. You could start by asking what kind of generosity do I value: is it generosity with money, generosity with your time, or generosity of spirit? If it is generosity of spirit, what behaviours would align with it in your case? You should begin your research for this assignment by reading the virtues and values literature and wisdom research.

The second important part of this assignment is your ‘values embodiment’ plan. An important question here is how will you develop the habit or natural impulse (moral conation or volition) to spontaneously behave in ways that support and align with your values? You, therefore, need to construct a concrete and plausible plan that will help you develop these habits.

Essays are to be your independent AND original work and include an introduction, body, and conclusion. You must also develop an argument showing how your topic assists in understanding the case study. Essays will be formal in style, include appropriate source citation and reference lists. Your essay will be formal in style, include appropriate source citation and reference lists. 

Please put a word count on the front page of your assignment and ensure that you reference appropriately using the APA or AMJ style (e.g. http://journals.aomonline.org/amj/style_guide.pdf). An author/date referencing style is required if you choose to cite research, for example, (Smith 2008, p, 112) or (Smith 2008: 112) or (Smith 2008), and NOT (M. Smith 2008, p. 112) or (Smith: 112). Assignments exceeding the word limit in excess of 10% will be penalised as will those that are more than 10% shorter than the word limit.

The purpose of this assignment is to conduct and evaluate the initial impact or your socially responsible group project. An important part of the assignment is that you design your own impact evaluation protocol based on sound industry or government evaluation principles. You will, therefore, need to have a methods section in your report explaining your data collection and analysis approach.

Please put a word count on the front page of your assignment and ensure that you reference appropriately using the APA or AMJ style (e.g. http://journals.aomonline.org/amj/style_guide.pdf). An author/date referencing style is required if you choose to cite research, for example, (Smith 2008, p, 112) or (Smith 2008: 112) or (Smith 2008), and NOT (M. Smith 2008, p. 112) or (Smith: 112). Assignments exceeding the word limit in excess of 10% will be penalised as will those that are more than 10% shorter than the word limit.

1. Group Assignment (Part B), Reflexive Individual Analysis

The individual essay seeks to consolidate your learning by asking you to write a reflexive essay that considers your experiences the group assignment but also in this course, in general, and how you can use that experience to plan your own ongoing development as a wise leader. You will have to use the research literature to justify the efficacy of this self-development plan.

You need to keep a weekly reflexive journal or diary for this assignment. The diary will be a primary data source for the assignment but you must cite the literature from relevant research areas.

Don’t forget that you can quote your journal entries as evidence to support your argument in the essay and you will have to write your reflections in the first person.

What is different about this essay compared to others you may have written at University is that I am not asking you to write an essay summarising the content of the course (or parts of the course). What you are required to write about is what you can imagine you can do with the content of this course to become a wise leader. Put in different words, we are asking you to demonstrate the ways in which this course is of benefit to you as a future leader.  You may also find it useful to write in the first person rather than the normal third person.

An essay is by definition a written argument. You must, therefore, demonstrate to the marker that you have a particular point of view and you must support this with evidence from the course and your journal (primary data/sources) and the literature (secondary data/sources). To this end, you may also need to research beyond the set readings already provided to you in the course materials.

A basic essay plan includes (Pavlovich, Collins, & Jones, 2007, p. 12):

Introduction

Describe the learning event/s, issue or situation.

What critical events happened?

• How did you feel?

< >What was your reaction and why did this happen? (Cognitive and emotional)Identify specific emotions: this is very important to be able to really understand the triggers for change.Analyse the learning event, issue, or situation in relation to prior knowledge, feelings, or attitudes. What were the consequences of that feeling?Discuss several points from the literature that help you understand what happened.What have you learned?Have you gained a new understanding of the learning event, issue, or situation?What is that value of the learning event, issue, or situation that has occurred?What is your new understanding of the learning event, issue, or situation?Indicate how the learning event, issue, or situation affects future behaviour.This includes the clarification of an issue, the development of a skill, or the resolution of a problem.How will you approach the same or similar event, issue, or situation in the future?What have you learned about yourself through this process? ConclusionsReference listhttp://libguides.mq.edu.au/referencing-software)

Assignments exceeding the word limit in excess of 10% will be penalised as will those that are more than 10% shorter than the word limit.