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CJ 510 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: The final project in this course will expose you to a problem situation and task you with how it should be solved. You will imagine you are employed at a criminal justice organization facing a communal problem. Your superior at the organization has asked you to review the problem situation and offer your recommendations. You will be given the chance to evaluate the situation and develop suggestions that will inform development of strategies to address the issue using appropriate ethical and transparent leadership and communication skills.

The main purpose of this second milestone of your project is for you to work on your leadership analysis portion of the final project. Begin by introducing your selected case study. What is the name of the case study? Give a brief overview of your case study. Why do you think this case is important to your understanding of leadership? What do you think the difference is between a manager and a leader?

Prior to finishing this assignment, it would be beneficial to complete your initial post in the Module Two discussion topic. The leadership evaluation that you will be completing will help prepare you to analyze the leadership in your selected case study.

Prompt: Using your selected case study, complete the following critical elements for the assignment:

A. Analyze the actions of leadership in the chosen scenario for how they did or did not facilitate and motivate employees in addressing the problem. Be sure to provide examples from the scenario to support your response. What instances in the chosen scenario exemplify the approach of leadership in encouraging and interacting with employees?

B. Analyze the actions of leadership in the chosen scenario for communication issues that might arise and how these issues might impede addressing the problem. Be sure to provide examples from the scenario to support your response. What communication issues might leadership face when addressing this problem? What are the implications or consequences of these issues?

C. Determine whether the supervisors in the chosen scenario have functioned as effective leaders. Be sure to justify your response, and support your response with appropriate research from the field gathered in your previous review.

Refer to the Criminal Justice Library Tips for support in finding and citing outside resources.

Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your submission should be 1–2 pages, double-spaced, in 12 point Times New Roman Font, and appropriate research used should follow appropriate APA formatting.

Please note that the grading rubric for the milestone submission is not identical to that of the final project. The Final Project Rubric will include an additional “Exemplary” category that provides guidance as to how you can go above and beyond “Proficient” in your final submission.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (80%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Leadership Analysis: Facilitate and

Motivate

Analyzes the actions of leadership in the chosen scenario for how they did or did not facilitate and motivate employees in addressing the problem, providing examples to support response

Analyzes the actions of leadership in the chosen scenario for how they did or did not facilitate and motivate employees in addressing the problem, providing examples to support response, but analysis is cursory or illogical, or provided examples are inappropriate or illogical

Does not analyze the actions of leadership in the chosen scenario for how they did or did not facilitate and motivate employees in addressing the problem

30

Leadership Analysis: Communication Issues

Analyzes the actions of leadership in the chosen scenario for communication issues that might arise and how these issues might impede addressing the problem, providing examples to support response

Analyzes the actions of leadership in the chosen scenario for communication issues that might arise and how these issues might impede addressing the problem, providing examples to support response, but analysis is cursory or illogical, or provided examples are inappropriate or illogical

Does not analyze the actions of leadership in the chosen scenario for communication issues that might arise and how these issues might impede addressing the problem

30

Leadership Analysis: Effective Leaders

Determines whether the supervisors in the chosen scenario have functioned as effective leaders, justifying response and supporting response with appropriate research from the field

Determines whether the supervisors in the chosen scenario have functioned as effective leaders, justifying response and supporting response with appropriate research from the field, but determination is cursory, illogical, or there are gaps in the justification, or supporting research is inappropriate

Does not determine whether the supervisors in the chosen scenario have functioned as effective leaders

30

Articulation of Response

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

10

Total 100%