Role of Ethical Leadership

For the next five weeks, you will explore ethical leadership from both an individual and organizational perspective and present your findings along with recommendations to the leadership team. You will have a project that will begin in Unit 1, continuing through all units, and ending in Unit 5. Your discussion and project will be connected each week, so you must complete your discussion work on time.

The following is a schedule of each week's deliverables:

Unit #

Topic

Unit 1
Role of ethical leadership

Unit 2
Leadership development

Unit 3
Team challenges

Unit 4
Ethical and legal dilemmas

Unit 5
Emerging trends

Your boss, the vice president of operations with Cinco, recently attended a leadership conference where one of the topics that caught his attention was ethics in leadership. As the executive director of training and development, you have been asked to create a report on ethics that discusses the impact of ethical leadership in the workplace.

For Part 1 of the report on ethics, you will create a comparison chart that looks at the role of ethical leadership in an organization, including leadership development, challenges, trends, and the legal and ethical dilemmas impacting organizations of the 21st century.

Comparison charts are graphic visual representations of information, knowledge, or data to present information concisely and clearly. The intent of graphics is to assist the audience with understanding the data presented.

Create a 1-page comparison chart. Use this template: Unit 1 comparison chart template. Include the following in your chart:

Identify 5–7 leadership styles that support ethical leadership perspectives, such as transformational, servant, and authentic.
Describe each leadership style.
Provide 1–2 examples of how the style supports ethical leadership in the workplace.
Provide a 4-page written analysis of the terms you selected for your chart. Include the following in your analysis:

Examine each style.
Explain why each style is significant.
Identify the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities of each leadership style and their impact on team performance.
Deliverable Requirements

The assignment should include a 1-page comparison chart and a 4-page analysis. Be sure to cite sources using APA properly; include references and in-text citations.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: 5 pages minimum
Body: This begins on the page following the title page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.
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Grading Rubric: Maximum 140 Points

Grading Criteria Points
Deliverable requirements addressed; understanding of material and presenter’s message and intent are clear 60 points Followed assignment guidelines and criteria 30 pts Yes/Complete Mostly Not at all
Overall quality 30 pts Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Scholarly research that supports the writer's position is properly acknowledged and cited, and direct quotations do not exceed 10% of the word count of the body of the assignment deliverable 30 points Title page, table of contents, tables, exhibits, appendices or reference page included 15 pts Yes Partially Not at all
Content is original with less than 35% match 15 pts Yes 36–50Q% or over
Critical thinking: Position is well-justified; logical flow; examples 15 points Position is justified with examples 7.5 pts Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Presentation flows logically 7.5 pts Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Structure: Includes introduction and conclusion, proper paragraph formatting, and reads as a polished academic paper or professional presentation, as appropriate for the required assignment deliverable 15 points Includes introduction and conclusion 5 pts Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Paragraphs are formatted properly 5 pts Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Reads as polished academic paper or presentation 5 pts Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Mechanical: No spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors 10 points Spelling and grammar are accurate 5 pts Yes Partially Not at all
Punctuation is accurate 5 pts Yes Partially Not at all
APA: Deliverable is cited properly according to the APA Publication Manual 10 points References are cited in accordance with APA formatting 5 pts Yes Partially Not at all
Reference page is included 5 pts Yes Partially Not at all