MGT 460 Week 5 Assignment

MGT 460 Week 5 Assignment | Ashford University

Week 5 - Final Paper

Leadership Philosophy

[WLOs: 1, 2, 3] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 5 of your text. You will submit your final paper to an ePortfolio. Review the Folio Quick Start Guide (Links to an external site.) for instructions. You will have lifetime unlimited access to Folio after graduation to demonstrate your skills and competencies to potential employers and the professional community.

The purpose of the Leadership Philosophy final paper is to articulate a rational, comprehensive, integrated system of thought regarding your fundamental beliefs, values, and knowledge that encompasses your personal and organizational dimensions of leadership.

In your paper,

·         Discuss your definition of leadership.

o    Defend your definition of leadership with scholarly literature.

·         Compose your personal statement of ethics as a leader.

o    Integrate how your values support your ethics as a leader.

·         Explain what steps, concepts, or principles that you adopt or utilize to make decisions and solve problems as a leader.

·         Knowing that all situations are different, summarize how you incorporate a multidisciplinary perspective.

·         Justify how your leadership approach allows for effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability in an organization.

·         Develop three goals for your personal leadership development.

·         Explain how these goals will improve your leadership.

·         Summarize your Reflected Best Self feedback. Write a self-portrait of your best self that captures the wisdom in the data. Include the themes from the stories which you will weave together into a picture of yourself.

·         Describe briefly who participated in this exercise and your relationship to each participant. This can be one to two paragraphs or a bullet-point list.

·         Identify your leadership strengths you learned about yourself from this exercise.

·         Discuss the situations in which these strengths emerge.

·         Explain how these strengths help to shape your potential career path as a leader.

The Leadership Philosophy paper,

·         Must be 8 to 10 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references) pages and formatted according to APA Style (Links to an external site.) as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.)

·         Must include a separate title page with the following:

o    Title of paper in bold font

§  Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.

o    Student’s name

o    Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)

o    Course name and number

o    Instructor’s name

o    Due date

·         Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.

·         Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

o    For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) and Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Writing Center resources.

·         Must use at least four scholarly sources in addition to the course text.

o    The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.

o    To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view the Quick and Easy Library Research (Links to an external site.) tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.

·         Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)

·         Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Writing Center for specifications.