Assignment 3: Leadership and Ethics
Due Week 9 and worth 220
points
In this assignment, you
will build upon the two (2) challenges that you had identified in Assignment 2,
Question 4.
Use the Internet or the
Strayer Library to research articles on public agencies or non-profit
organizations for which your proposed challenges may not be considered actual
challenges.
Write a four to five
(4-5) page paper in which you:
1.
Propose two (2) ethical concerns that management may need to address.
Create the context in which such concerns may or may not be ethical in nature.
Provide a rationale for your response.
2.
Analyze the overall manner in which organizational structure impacts
organizational ethics. Select one (1) public agency or one (1) non-profit
organization in which your challenges may not be considered actual challenges.
Provide a rationale for your response.
3.
Use the Inventory of Public Management Skills Management, located on pages
11 to 12 of the textbook, to construct a self-evaluation. Assess your level of development
in each of the skills. Propose two (2) to three (3) activities that would help
you to improve the skills in question.
4.
Use the results of your self-evaluation and recommendations from Question 3
to formulate a response to the challenges that you have presented that creates
a win-win situation for the organization, the employees, and the public.
Predict two (2) potential obstacles to success and two (2) plans to overcome
such obstacles.
5.
Include at least four (4) academic references (no more than five [5] years
old) from material outside the textbook and no more than one (1) governmental
Website. Note: Appropriate
academic resources include academic and governmental Websites, scholarly texts,
and peer-reviewed articles. Wikipedia, other wikis, and any other Websites
ending in anything other than “.gov” do not qualify as academic
resources.
Your assignment must
follow these formatting requirements:
·
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with
one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or
school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional
instructions.
·
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s
name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and
the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
