milestone 2162

HW1

The milestone assignments will provide you with the opportunity to reflect on four organizational scenarios to demonstrate your understanding of leadership in organizational behavior. These assignments are designed to develop your skills in analyzing various organizational leadership situations dealing with skills assessment, team-building, vision and culture, problem-solving, and conflict management.

Prompt: For Milestone One: Self-Assessment, you will use the StrengthsFinder® results and the text material to complete a paper/presentation. In this assignment, you will summarize your StrengthsFinder results and compare these results with the cognitive factors associated with leadership effectiveness. Using at least two examples, explain how your leadership strengths and traits contribute to the effectiveness of an organization that you are part of currently or were previously associated with. You will be evaluated on summary of results, analysis of cognitive factors and leadership, application of examples, critical thinking, and articulation of response.

Guidelines for Submission: Milestone One must be in APA style. Include a separate title and reference page, an introduction, subheadings, and a conclusion. The requirements for this assignment are 2 to 4 pages in length (not including title and reference pages), double spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, and at least two discipline-appropriate citations.

Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Summary of Results

Accurately summarizes StrengthsFinder results with some details in a concise fashion and connects with own analysis

Summarizes some StrengthsFinder results but with insufficient detail to connect with own analysis

Does not summarize the StrengthsFinder results and does not connect with own analysis

25

Analysis of Cognitive Factors and Leadership

Explores some cognitive factors associated with leadership effectiveness through some detail and analysis to make informed conclusions

Explores minimal cognitive factors associated with leadership effectiveness through minimal detail and analysis to make informed conclusions

Does not explore cognitive factors associated with leadership effectiveness through detail and analysis and does not make informed conclusions

25

Application of Examples

Uses one example and applies most leadership strengths and traits that contribute to the effectiveness of an organization correctly within the analysis

Applies some leadership strengths and traits that contribute to the effectiveness of an organization correctly within the analysis

Does not correctly apply any leadership strengths and traits that contribute to the effectiveness of an organization correctly within the analysis

20

Critical Thinking

Demonstrates moderate exploration of issues and ideas before accepting or forming an opinion or conclusion

Demonstrates minimal exploration of issues and ideas before accepting or forming an opinion or conclusion

Does not demonstrate exploration of issues and ideas before accepting or forming an opinion or conclusion

20

Articulation of Response

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

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

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

10

Earned Total 100% Hw 2

Create an overview of your chosen market domain. This overview will be a survey of the domain holistically in order to describe the marketplace of your chosen market domain and the factors contributing to its development. For example, if you chose the transportation industry and focused on ground transportation, you would discuss the development of the rail or interstate highway systems, the concept of intermodal transportation, deregulation, environment laws, and so forth. You will describe the impact on the marketplace of these new developments and leadership’s response.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

1. Factors: Analyze the factors that contributed to the obsolescence or dissolution of notable companies in your selected market domain in the recent past. Make sure to discuss both inhibiting and enabling factors in your analysis.

2. Impact of Factors: Assess the impact of the factors you analyzed on opportunities for change and innovation in the business environment of your selected market domain.

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as an 8-10 page APA-style Word document with double spacing, not counting the cover page and reference page. It must be in 12-point Times New Roman font, with one-inch margins and at least three authoritative sources cited in APA format.

Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions.

Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Identification of Factors

Meets “Proficient” criteria, and analysis demonstrates keen insight into factors driving change or innovation in business environment

Accurately analyzes factors that contributed to obsolescence or dissolution of notable companies in selected market domain in recent past, discussing both inhibiting and enabling factors

Analyzes factors that contributed to obsolescence or dissolution of notable companies in selected market domain in recent past, but discussion does not include both inhibiting and enabling factors, or response has gaps in accuracy or detail

Does not analyze factors that contributed to obsolescence or dissolution of notable companies in selected market domain in recent past

40

Impact of Factors

Meets “Proficient” criteria, and assessment

Comprehensively assesses impact of factors on opportunities

Assesses impact of factors on opportunities for change and innovation in business

Does not assess impact of identified factors

40

demonstrates keen insight into factors driving change or innovation in business environment

for change and innovation in business environment of market domain

environment of market domain, but assessment is cursory or inaccurate

on opportunities for change and innovation in business environment of market domain

Articulation of Response

Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format

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

20

Earned Total 100%