It’s a reflective essay.2000 words. APA 6th style. i’ve provided the marking rubrics also. please read the requirements and the rubrics carefully thank you.
Leadership and Ethics Trimester 2, 2018: PSB Campus
Individual Reflective Essay
Weighting: 25%
Due Date: Friday 29 June 2018 at 11.59pm (Local Time)
Word count: 2,000 words in total (excluding the reference list and title page)
This assignment requires you to write a critical-analytical reflective essay that provides insights into your own capacity to exercise leadership effectively. In attempting this essay, you are required to consider, discuss, evaluate and analyse the following:
1. Your personal disposition or temperament (aspects of your unique personality – how these might predispose you towards certain leadership behaviours and preferences).
2. Your personal values, your sense of what is ethical and what is unethical, your moral compass, your feelings about what is right and wrong.
3. Your work-related preferences. For example – and these are suggestions only – Do you value individual achievement over being a team player? Are you a task-oriented person or a people oriented-person, or both? Are you goal-driven or process-oriented? Do you have a strong sense of time-urgency? Do you value collaboration, competition, social harmony, discipline? You might also perhaps consider situations or circumstances that you could find problematic or troublesome as a leader.
Examples could relate to how you respond to tight deadlines, how you handle conflict, whether you are easy or difficult to encourage if feeling a little down, whether you believe leaders should set clear goals, and whether they should be nurturing towards others.
4. The relevance of theoretical frameworks in helping you to understand yourself as a leader. (For example, if you are a person who is likely to place reward power or expertise above other power bases, please include these ideas in your reflection and explain how this may influence your leadership.)
Purpose of this Assessment Item:
The purpose of this assignment is threefold. First, it is to encourage self-awareness and to build self- insight. Second, it is to prompt you to reflect upon the relevance and applications of some of the theories you have covered on this course so far, and to give you the opportunity to apply them to yourself in order to develop a greater understanding of your own unique leadership preferences and capacities. Third, this assignment is designed to enable you to develop your powers of critical analysis and to express your thoughts and ideas clearly and cogently in written form.
A Note on the Application of Theory
This assignment is not merely about developing a critical analysis of a series of theories. However, it will be useful for you to consider how some of the theories covered on this course so far might be used to develop your own sense of what it means to be an effective leader, and to practice leadership ethically. A critical part of thinking about leadership is being able to take your learning experiences from this course (e.g. the theories you have been exposed to, readings, workshop activities, and group discussions) and reflect on how they are informing your views of leadership, how they are helping to
shape you as a leader, and how you can apply them to your own experiences to analyse what you (or others) did and what you (or others) could have done differently. This type of thinking forms the basis for your individual reflective essay.
This assignment is designed to prompt you to think about your own learning experiences, and to articulate your thoughts about your own leadership capability, based upon a considered process of reflection. In your reflections, you may like to make use of this three-stage reflective model as a guide:
Retell – start by briefly and concisely explaining a situation/event/experience that links to your learning experience in the course so far. State the basic facts of the situation, but also examine how you felt about it at the time and how you feel about it now.
Relate – relate the event, and your feelings about it, to the theory/theories/models you’ve identified. How do the theory/models help you to better understand the situation? How do they make you think differently about it? Or do they confirm what you thought? This is about analysing your strengths and weaknesses through the lenses of the theory/models covered in weeks 1-5 of this course.
Reflect – how will the knowledge you have gained from the event or experience, when analysed through your chosen theory/models, help you in your professional or personal life? Will it change your behaviour in the future? Will it change the way you think about things or approach situations? You may like to provide relevant examples of this.
It is important to remember that reflective writing is different from traditional academic assignments. It is a flexible, personal, and semi-informal style of writing. But, it also needs to flow coherently and your ideas and reflections need to be presented logically.
Assessment Criteria:
Your reflective essay will be assessed according to the following criteria –
1. Level of critical insight demonstrated: The extent to which your essay demonstrates self- awareness, and the extent to which you are able to critically evaluate your own unique capacity as a leader.
2. Level of analysis: The extent to which you are able to analyse your ideas, thoughts and chosen theories, and the extent to which you are able to demonstrate their relevance and applicability to you as a leader.
3. Level of written expression: Clarity in written expression, appropriate use of vocabulary, correct spelling and grammar, and overall prose fluency.
4. Overall coherence of your essay: How well your essay develops and flows. How effectively you build and develop a progressive narrative.
Additional Considerations:
Word count is based on the overall content and excludes the reference list.
It is expected that any models and theories you use will be referenced correctly (APA 6th ed.) and that the Turnitin similarity match will be suitably low. Note that high similarity matches could result in academic misconduct.