Leadership Image

Images of Leadership Assignment

OL3020: Leading Others, Wright State University

Description:

1. Students portray images of leadership through a creative expression including, but not limited to:

o Photographs (creatively displayed or in electronic form) o Video presentation (flash format, uploaded to YouTube) o Physical Expression - painting, sculpture (materials of any kind)--- can be brought

to class, but a photograph needs to be taken and uploaded into Pilot along with

written portion.

o Other: must be approved in advance by course instructor

2. Written portion of this assignment must be included to explain and provide support for your knowledge of leadership.

o There should be at least three different images and three different leadership concepts in your assignment. The names of these three leadership concepts should be clearly

indicated in the paper.

o Write an explanation of how the images relate to leadership. Please clearly explain in detail why you think the image is related to the leadership concept you have chosen

(in your own words). Be sure to mention any supportive research such as theories,

authors, models, etc.

o This assignment should not be more than 4 pages (this page limit does not include the images).

o Please also write the definitions of the all leadership concepts you have used from different resources and reference those resources (including our textbook) within the text

using APA style. In this part, please do not write the definitions yourself but refer to

different resources. At least 2 reputable resources should be used in your paper.

Please also provide a reference list at the end of your paper according to APA style.

o For this assignment, just for photos, you do not need to reference resources about where you got your photos.

o Double-spaced, with Times New Roman size 12 font, left-justified, and 1” margins on all sides.

o Please use pictures that require active student thinking/creativity to tie the images to leadership concepts.

For instance, these images are not suitable for this assignment:

-Using the picture of “SWOT Analysis” framework (such as in this link):

http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/55403/file-1489789351-

png/images/swot.png?t=1429810618081&width=350&height=231

-A figure explains the “Expectancy Theory of Motivation” (given on p. 315 of our textbook),

- A picture of the word “trust” Link: https://missmungai.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/trust-

clothesline.jpg

Please do not choose images such as these ones. Using such images does not require any

active student thinking/creativity to tie that image to leadership concepts. Points will be

deducted from assignments that uses such images.

3. Submit files in Pilot drop box—INCLUDING ANY ELECTRONIC FILES THAT CONTAIN YOUR IMAGES. Please submit all your images in one file (for instance,

you can copy-paste all your images into a Word document). The dropbox for this

assignments is titled as “Images for Leadership”.

Before you submit the assignment, please make sure the web site links you provided in

your assignment are working. You are not required to prepare a Power Point presentation.

If you did, you can submit that to the Pilot dropbox too.

4. Students should be prepared to present / share their images in class. Please bring your images and paper to the presentation day (either bring your computer or print your

documents & images). Points will be given from presenting your work in class and

having the preparation for presentation.

5. The dropbox for this project has Turnitin integration. Turnitin is a tool to prevent

plagiarism. Thus, please make sure you cite your resources correctly and paraphrase

whenever possible.

6. Please look at “Written Assignments” expectations in the course syllabus. As the course

syllabus indicates:

- “Reputable resources should be used for assignments. Please do not refer to any

resources that are not reputable (such as Wikipedia, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts,

web sites of organizational/leadership consultants, or personal blogs)”.

- “Please use direct quotation as little as possible and try to paraphrase the sentences you

refer to. For each assignment, more than 1-2 directly quoted sentences will not be

allowed”.

7. I recommend taking advantage of the Wright State University Writing Center for all

written assignments.

8. The due date for this assignment is given in the course syllabus. Please note the

presentation date in the course syllabus as you are expected to present in class.