Assignment 1: The summativeindividual essay will be 3000 words in length not including references or any other extraneous content.
Assignment 2: The summative final report will be 3000 words in length not including references and appendices or any other extraneous content. Whilst you will work in groups to develop your ideas and for formative assessment, you are required to produce individual reports.
Objectives
Students will support argumentation with concepts from material provided via unilearn and their own additional sources to address the following objectives:
Assignment 1:
individual essays will demonstrate knowledge and ability to
1 apply concepts of ethical leadership and followership to a variety of scenarios;
2 appreciate the scope of ethical responsibility for leaders and followers;
3 practice moral imagination for generating a range of options for ethical behaviour;
4 critically reflect on ethical issues that arise in organisations;
Assignment 2:
individual reports will demonstrate in addition to the above objectives the ability to
5 critically evaluate leader, follower, and organizational behaviour in a real world, global context through the application of ethical and leadership concepts;
6 research and critique business behaviour in ethical terms.
Individual Assignment 1: Case study of film stories in essay format
Based on the stories in the films Arbitrage [2012] and The Truman Show [1998] write a 3000 word essay that comparing and contrasting the major ethical issue of each story. Take into particular consideration issues of ethical leadership and ethical followership and real world examples that are related and relevant. Apply ethical perspectives and ethical leadership theories to your evaluation.
Use standard essay structure and fulfil the above mentioned objectives 1-4.
Group Project / Individual Assignment 2: individual reports
As a group project, you will work in groups to prepare and perform formative debates in class. The group project will culminate in a final formative debate presentation that feed into individual reports.
The first task in this project is to create the following for your groups:
1. A group/project code of conduct/ethics
2. An accountability plan
3. A skills assessment and team structure scheme
4. A weekly project reporting form
5. A project plan specifying each group members’ tasks, project milestones, and measurement criteria
These will appear as appendices in your individual papers.
The individual summative report will demonstrate critically evaluative argumentation of a debate topic selected from the debate topics offered during the formative debate rounds or you may suggest a topic of your own for approval by your tutor. You will demonstrate your knowledge of and ability to apply concepts of ethical leadership related to communication, decision making, leading groups and organisations, diversity, universal ethics, and crisis leadership.
It is important that you argue (as if in a debate) both sides of the topic and provide a final position summary.
The final report will include:
1. An executive summary of the report (max 100 words)
2. A personal summary of each group member’s concrete content contribution to preparing for and delivering the debate presentations (max 300 words total)
3. A personal assessment of each group member’s engagement in the process(max 300 words total)
4. A well-researched report demonstrating the your individual approach to understanding, developing, evaluating, arguing, and rebutting a debate topic of your choice including a statement of final position on the issue and using APA 6th ed. citation standards (2300 words max)
5. A “References” page listing all academic and business sources consulted using APA 6th ed. style referencing (see tutorial)
6. The above project management tools as appendices.
