Discussion Assignment Instructions
Explain how ethical considerations, reasoning, power, and worldviews may influence how leaders make decisions and how the decision-making method they use may impact the leader’s ability to influence. Integrate the results of your Self-Assessment 2.2 from Johnson in your discussion. Feel free to include decision models beyond those covered in the text at your option.
Incorporate study material, personal worldview, experiences, observations, and reasoning principles that should be considered. As usual, use textbooks and peer-reviewed scholarly journals to support your perspectives or arguments.
Overview
There are five multiple-interaction discussions assigned during this course with each focused on a particular group of ethical leadership and organizational ethics concepts. These discussions are designed to be scholarly examinations of complex constructs and through the engagement of fellow students, offer deeper exploration. Your expanded exploration and graceful challenges will provoke deeper learning and the development of sound reasoning in support of clearer, worldview-based ethical perspectives. In the process of discussions, you will also develop richer research, reasoning, and doctoral level presentation practices as you deepen your personal ethical leadership understanding.
Instructions
You will complete 5 discussions in this course. Each discussion will take place over two consecutive weeks except for last discussion, which will be completed within the final week of the class. You will be required to post an initial thread of 750-1000 words. You must then post 2 replies of 350 words and 2 responses of 250 words to the replies. Strive to post the target word counts +-30 words. See the Discussions Rubric for additional insight on discussions word count scoring. Only the posted narrative, minus any greetings or accolades, is used when determining words posted.
| Required Post | First Week | Second Week |
| Initial Discussion Post | Initial thread of 750-1000 words due by Sunday midnight | N/A |
| Replies to Initial Post | N/A | 2 Replies of 320-380 words |
| Responses to Replies | N/A | 2 Responses of 220-280 words |
Note: Chart depicts only a single discussion. Discussions overlap so posting of initial threads and replies/responses for different discussions often occur within the same week.
These discussions are intended to be scholarly dialogs and for each thread, you must support all of your assertions with proper scholarly support in APA format with sources listed as References at the end of the post. Support ALL claims and information provided. Discussions threads are expected to engage the assigned subject matter, drawing on the reading and study materials within the course as well as additional researched scholarly materials. A minimum of 4 scholarly sources are required for your initial thread. Acceptable sources are textbooks, Bible, peer-reviewed journal articles, and quality popular press articles (HBR, Forbes, BusinessWeek, etc.) with no more than 1 popular press article per week.
Replies, the term we will use for the first round of answering your fellow student, should introduce fresh thoughts (rather than repeating initial post ideas), engage the initial thread, and include 2 scholarly sources as defined for initial threads.
Responses, the term for the second round of engagement in a discussion, should be answers to replies on your own thread if you received any replies to your original post. If no replies were posted to your initial thread, your responses can be posted to the replies to any other student’s initial post. Responses to replies should engage the reply, advance the dialog, and contribute additional insights. Responses must include 1 scholarly source as define for initial threads.
