Category: Leadership

Module 1 – Case Leadership Traits and Tribal Leadership Assignment Overview The Module 1 Case requires that you complete the Leadership Traits Questionnaire (LTQ), and use the results of the LTQ to formulate your personal leadership traits. Case Assignment Using Google or another search engine of your choice, conduct an online search for the Leadership Traits Questionnaire pdf file. Complete the LTQ, and request that a minimum of three (and maximum of five) individuals who know you well complete the LTQ on your behalf. Follow the instructions at the end of the survey scale, noting the following: The items on which you scored highest and lowest. The items for which there were notable differences between your self-ratings and the average of others ratings. Assignment Expectations After you have taken the LTQ, please respond to the following requirements in a well-written, 4- to 5-page paper (not counting the title page or reference section): Discuss your scores on the LTQ, detailing what surprised you about the results, as well as what did not surprise you. Compare the scores you received from your peers to the scores you received based on your own LTQ answers. What was most different? What was similar? Write a 5-step action plan for improving your leadership skills based on the feedback you received from your LTQ as well as the scores you received from others.

Assignment Directions: Write about the role and the importance of the Joint Program Manager. You should explain at least one best practice that the Joint Program Manager should have and you should explain if you would be interested to become a Joint Program Manager one day. Write a two-page paper, plus the title page and a reference page. Writing Instructions (Please do read this): Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting. Length of paper: typed, 3-5 pages double-spaced pages Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point. This assignment aligns with the following: Course Objective: 3 [content page] Lesson Objective: 3.1, 3.2 [content page] RESEARCH and WRITING APUS Online Library Tutorial Center [webpage] PLAGIARISM Avoiding accidental and intentional plagiarism [webpage] Submission Instructions: Write a two-page paper, plus the title page and a reference page. A 35-page Word Document Must include a title page, abstract, and references. These are not counted in the page count/slide count. Assignment Resources & Supports Office 365 [webpage]: You have free access as an APUS student. Sign in with your MyCampus Email credentials. Submitting and Confirming a Submission [YouTube]: Watch this 3-minute video if you need guidance on submitting your assignment. Academic Integrity [content page] Due on Feb 22, 2026 11:59 PM

Students will write a 45 page, double-spaced synthesis paper (APA format with title page) examining their experiences learning and applying enabling conditions and addressing team dysfunctions. Drawing on course readings and team activities, students will integrate ideas from multiple sources around a central theme or question related to team development. A synthesis is not a summary, comparison, or review; it demonstrates the ability to combine learning with experience to develop and support a clear thesis using evidence such as examples and quotations.

Must have one peer review source.

Scenario Imagine you are a new manager at the SNHU Pet Supply Company. The company has grown from a small, local pet-supply company into a large organization with locations in Manchester, New Hampshire and Denver, Colorado. It also employs remote staff. The manager you are replacing was with the team for two years and left on negative terms, which exacerbated an already concerning team culture. You have been asked to present a management plan that addresses identified areas of concern, rebuilds the teams culture, and aligns organizational practices to leadership. Leadership has provided you with a management brief that outlines the key pieces of information you will need in order to make informed recommendations. Directions Use course resources and the information provided in the Project One Management Brief (located in the Supporting Materials section) to develop recommendations that will meet the needs of your new team and align with your organizations mission, vision, culture statement, and goals. Use the Presentation Template to create presentation slides that highlight key pieces of information, and use the Speaker Notes Template to outline what you would say when presenting your recommendations in a future meeting with leadership. Both templates are located in the What to Submit section. Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria: Team Management Leadership and Management: Describe leadership and management practices that you feel would be best suited to manage the team. Explain why you believe these practices are in alignment with the organizations mission, culture, and goals, as well as how they would be effective in improving the teams culture. Followership: Explain how you would leverage your strengths as a leader to strengthen the teams effectiveness and culture. Also explain how your strengths could be used to develop followership within your team. Decision-Making Models: Describe decision-making models that you believe will be the most effective for the team and management approach and their alignment with the organization, as well as how they would be effective in improving the teams culture. Emotional Intelligence: Describe considerations for ensuring your management practices are emotionally intelligent and inclusive of diverse perspectives, needs, and roles within your team. Explain why you believe they are in alignment with the organization and how they would be effective in improving the teams culture. Communication and Collaboration Across Functions Forms and Functions: Explain how the various forms and functions of the organization impact the team; also explain how the team impacts the various forms and functions across the organization. Communication Practices: Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the current communication practices being used across functions, and recommend better ways to communicate that meet the organizations needs. Organizational Mission, Vision, and Goals: Explain the general purpose of organizational missions, culture statements, and goals and what these three things say about the way an organization should operate. Take organizational structure, leadership and management approaches, and diversity and inclusion practices into account when considering an operation. What to Submit To complete this project, you must submit the following: Template: Presentation Template PPT Your presentation should be between 7 to 10 slides in length, not including the title and references slides. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Template: Speaker Notes Template Word Document Use complete sentences to outline what you would say in a verbal presentation. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

The effects of gender on negotiations and bargaining have been at the center of business-related research for decades. The approach and process can be affected by your own gender, and also the gender of the person sitting across the bargaining table from you. Using peer-reviewed sources, research the specific effects of gender, and concisely summarize the effects on negotiations and bargaining. Back your points up in a 250-word supported analysis vs. posting opinions. Remember to use in-text citations in your post.

Discussion Requirements

In your own words, answer this module’s discussion questions in a main post, and respond to at least two classmates posts. Your responses should go beyond surface-level comments and demonstrate thoughtful engagement with your peers’ ideas.

After completing the required background readings, answer the following questions:

1. Calling to mind a workplace conflict that was negotiated (or researching an organizational conflict), what specific preparations can you identify? (It is OK to use the same conflict from Case 1 here, and expand upon it using the new questions below).
2. What else could have/should have been done to best prepare?
3. How did the bargaining play out? (Be as specific as possible.)
4. What was the outcome for each side? What was achieved, and/or what was left unresolved on the table?
5. What specific changes could you recommend to improve the process of resolving this conflict?

SLP Assignment Expectations

1. Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to support your analysis.
2. Provide a response of 3-5 pages, not including title page and references
3. As we have multiple required items to be addressed herein, please use subheadings to show where youre responding to each required item and to ensure that none are omitted.
4. Support your paper with peer-reviewed articles and reliable sources. Use at least three references, and a minimum of two of these from peer-reviewed sources.
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7. . Paraphrase all source information into your own words carefully, and use in-text citations.

Now that the process of negotiation has been examined, lets move forward to studying how we best prepare for negotiations, and how distributive bargaining works. Preparations, as in all aspects of life, are necessary for success. The same goes for negotiations. The better prepared you are to enter into and participate in the process, the more likely you can achieve a favorable outcome. Preparing for a negotiation or bargaining session will also reduce your anxiety and uncertainty, and allow time for you to define what is most important to you in the sessions potential outcome. It also allows you to gather as much relevant information as possible, listing the information and valuing it in a logical way to then make use of it during the bargaining. Once you define your specific goal, you can keep your focus on that goal in a rational and positive manner.

The process of distributive bargaining allows discussions to try to narrow the distance between the two sides. How is the pie best cut up to try to please both sides (or to be least offensive)? The pie, in the business world, could refer to items such as tangible products, services, capital, skills, information, or other resources. Each side will want to achieve its original goal; however, compromise is often needed to close the distance.

Preparations for the actual bargaining are critical. To a large extent, your power in bargaining is dependent upon how clear you are in your stated goals/desired outcome, your knowledge of acceptable alternatives, your walk-away values, and also how much you know about your opponents. Although we cannot promise a successful outcome of the negotiation and bargaining, we can prepare ourselves well by understanding the processes and best practices as fundamental steps that will ensure a more productive encounter.

Case Assignment

Using the background resources presented, as well as peer-reviewed sources of your own, create a PowerPoint presentation of 12-15 slides that clearly summarize the best practices that a healthcare manager should employ to best prepare for both negotiations and distributive bargaining. Include speakers notes to further expand upon and explain your points.

Assignment Expectations

1. Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to support your presentation.
2. Provide 12-15 quality PowerPoint slides of bulleted-point information content (with speakers notes), not including title page and reference slides. Do not forget to use in-text citations.
3. Support your presentation with peer-reviewed articles and reliable sources. Use at least three references, and a minimum of two of these from peer-reviewed sources.
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6. . Paraphrase all source information into your own words carefully, and use in-text citations.

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Competencies

3008.1.1 : Practical Relevance of Ethical Theories

The graduate assesses the practical relevance of leading ethical theories and concepts.

3008.1.2 : Ethical Leadership and Code of Ethics

The graduate identifies influences on ethical leadership and analyzes a code of ethics.

Introduction

Leadership is often defined as the ability to influence people. An effective ethical leader guides an organization and its employees to accomplish organizational goals. In the same vein, an unethical leader can guide an organization and its employees to act unethically, harming both the organization and the stakeholders. Being a leader is an exploration, a reflection, and a test of your leadership values. Seeking understanding of how you resolve ethical dilemmas, taking inventory of where an ethical weakness may lie, and examining the traits of an ethical leader helps you define, shape, and apply an ethical decision-making framework, while also taking into consideration all stakeholders who may be affected by your decisions.

For this task, you will respond to an ethical situation as well as analyze the results of the Ethical Lens Inventory (ELI), which should be completed in the course. This task focuses on you as a leader by helping you to define, refine, and test your ethical boundaries through self-reflection and analysis.

Scenario

You are a sales representative for a medical device company that manufactures artificial joints. Your company has developed an artificial knee joint that is less expensive than the competition and will dramatically reduce healing time for patients. However, it is also known to produce a serious and potentially lethal infection in a small percentage of patients. The company refuses to disclose this potential side effect. You feel you have a duty to divulge this issue, but you signed a nondisclosure agreement when you were hired and worry about possible repercussions.

Requirements

Your submission must represent your original work and understanding of the course material. Most performance assessment submissions are automatically scanned through the WGU similarity checker. Students are strongly encouraged to wait for the similarity report to generate after uploading their work and then review it to ensure Academic Authenticity guidelines are met before submitting the file for evaluation. See for more information.

Grammarly Note:

Professional Communication will be automatically assessed through Grammarly for Education in most performance assessments before a student submits work for evaluation. Students are strongly encouraged to review the Grammarly for Education feedback prior to submitting work for evaluation, as the overall submission will not pass without this aspect passing. See for more information.

Microsoft Files Note:

Write your paper in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) unless another Microsoft product, or pdf, is specified in the task directions. Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc. All supporting documentation, such as screenshots and proof of experience, should be collected in a pdf file and submitted separately from the main file. For more information, please see

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

Write an essay (suggested length of 68 pages) in which you do the following:

A. Select a nonfictional leader who you feel has exhibited exemplary ethical conduct and do the following:

1. Discuss two ethical traits your chosen leader has demonstrated.

2. Explain how your chosen leader has exhibited ethical conduct.

Note: The chosen leader can be someone you know personally or someone famous.

B. Compare the deontological and consequentialist perspectives and how each perspective would approach the dilemma from the scenario.

C. Identify and explain which level of cognitive moral development (i.e., preconventional, conventional, or postconventional) is represented in the scenario for each of the following questions:

Which action would most likely serve the greater good in society?

If I reveal this information, will I get into trouble and possibly even lose my job?

Which action best aligns with my long-held belief in the principle of justice?

What do the laws say, and what would a law-abiding citizen do?

If I keep quiet, will I get some sort of reward?

D. Reflect on your Ethical Lens Inventory (ELI) by doing the following:

1. Explain your preferred ethical lens, relevant to the ELI.

a. Analyze whether you have the same preferred lens in different settings (e.g., work, personal, social).

2. Explain one of your primary values and one classical virtue from the ELI.

Note: If you are a Center Perspective, choose any primary value.

a. Compare your primary value from part D2 with one of your own self-identified or personal values. Then compare your classical virtue from part D2 with a different self-identified or personal value.

Note: Examples of personal values can be found in the attached Clarifying Your Values chart.

3. Describe one of the following from your ELI:

blind spot

risk

double standard

vice

a. Discuss two steps you can take to mitigate the blind spot, risk, double standard, or vice described in part D3 in order to make better ethical decisions in the future.

4. Discuss how the information from your ELI could be applied to an ethical situation in the workplace.

E. Submit a copy of the PDF file with the results from your ELI as a separate document.

F. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

G. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

File Restrictions

File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( )

File size limit: 200 MB

File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, csv, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg, wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z

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Task 1 Tips

In addition to the tips and resources you find here, you can find Task 1 tips in the course. Head to this section: Ethical Leadership and Code of Ethics > Preparing for Task 1.

General Tips

This task is relatively informal compared with tasks you may have completed in some of your other courses. You do not need to format your task in APA format, though you are welcome to do so if that is your preference. You can also just divide your task into the individual sections and approach each section one at a time.

On a related note, the four sections in the task are all separate from each other, so you dont need to try to make your task flow as one whole.

You do not need to use sources (for instance, finding outside, scholarly sources). In fact, everything you need is in the course. If you do use sources and you quote, paraphrase, or summarize them then cite them using in-text citations and a References page. This rule applies to the textbook, as well as to any outside sources.

The rubric (located in the task instructions) is the document the evaluators use to score your tasks. We highly recommend checking your writing against the rubric to ensure both that everything fits into the Competent column and that you dont overlook any section that needs to be addressed.

Common Stumbling Blocks

In Section B, be sure you focus your discussion of deontology and consequentialism on the scenario found in the task instructions. Look for the scenario involving an artificial knee joint.

The most common reason Task 1 is sent back is Section D2a. The biggest question involves the personal or self-identified values. Those are two values that you will have identified within yourself.

To complete Section D, you will need to complete a self-quiz called The Ethical Lens Inventory (ELI). You can find the ELI in this section of the course: Practical Relevance of Ethical Theories > Ethical Theories and Concepts.

Please note that you are required to attach the PDF of your Ethical Lens Inventory results when you submit your task. Therefore, you will attach two documents: your ELI results and your task.

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Head or Heart?

The Ethical Lens Inventory is designed to help you identify your core ethical values. When we make ethical decisions, our core values are organized into four primary perspectivesthe lenses. Which perspective you take depends on what side you take on two timeless debates: reason in tension with feelings (the head against the heart) and individual rights in tension with group rights.Lets examine the first tension: head against heart.In choosing what action is the most ethical, we must often decide whether we will listen to our reason or our feelings. If you tend to pay attention to your reason, youll prefer an ethical lens that values rationality in resolving ethical dilemmas. If you tend to pay attention to your heart, you will prefer an ethical lens that values sensibility.Two of the four ethical lenses emphasize using rationality critical thinking to determine what behavior is ethical.

• Responsibilities Lens: Those who favor this lens use their reason to determine universal principles and rules by which they and others should live.
• Relationship Lens: Those who favor this lens use the collective reason of their community to design and implement processes that protect the powerless and ensure justice for all.

The other two lenses emphasize using sensibility intuition and emotions to determine what behavior is ethical.

• Results Lens: Those who favor this lens use their feelings and intuition to determine the choices that will contribute to their happiness, and by extension, the happiness of all.
• Reputation Lens: Those who favor this lens use their feelings and intuition, as well as the traditions and wisdom of their community, to identify the character traits that are required for virtuous livingan example to emulate.

Do you prefer to analyze before you act, or do you prefer to leap into action and worry about the risk later? The answer is central to how you make ethical decisions.

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Individual or Community?

The second set of values identified in the Ethical Lens Inventory looks at whether you focus on the individual or the community when you make ethical decisions.Two of the ethical lenses emphasize individuals exercising their autonomy and determining for themselves what behavior is ethical.

• Responsibilities Lens: Those who favor this lens use their reason to determine universal principles and rules by which they and others should live.
• Results Lens: Those who favor this lens use their feelings and intuition to determine the choices that will contribute to their happiness, and by extension, the happiness of all.

The other two ethical lenses emphasize the community determining as a whole what behavior is ethical, favoring equality.

• Relationship Lens: Those who favor this lens use the collective reason of their community to design and implement processes that protect the powerless and ensure justice for all.
• Reputation Lens: Those who favor this lens use their feelings and intuition, as well as the traditions and wisdom of their community, to identify the character traits that are required for virtuous livingan example to emulate.

Do you value the safety and prosperity of the community, even if individuals must sacrifice, or do you promote the rights of individuals to make their own choices, trusting that people will restrain their self-interest? Context will affect how you answer the question, but you likely have a preference that shapes your outlook on life.

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ETHICAL LENS INVENTORY(ELI) RESULTS :-

Your preferred ethical lens is: Blended Responsibilities and Relationship

Mild Rationality and No Preference between Autonomy and Equality (MRNP)

You use your personal reasoning skills (rationality) to balance between living into your personal principles (autonomy) and building a fair community (equality).

Your Primary Values show how you prioritize the tension between rationality and sensibility as well as autonomy and equality.

Your primary value is Rationality with no preference between Autonomy and Equality

Your value preferences place you between two lenses, the Responsibilities Lens and the Relationship Lens. Those with a Responsibilities Lens focus tend to define ethical success as having the right to choose how to responsibly live into their principleseven if other people dont always agree with them. Those with a Relationship Lens focus tend to define ethical success as having strong relationships within their community and working to help those without resources or power.

You have no preference between the values of autonomy and equality (NP). Defending the right of everyone to choose how they will live is important to youbut not if those rights come at the expense of the communitys wellbeing. Your balance between these values may be a struggle, where you believe everyone should choose their own path but worry that such freedom could lead to anarchy or injustice. Or, your balance could be a more harmonious blend of the two values.

As you balance these two perspectives, you have a mild preference for the value of rationality (MR) to identify the principlesthe foundational rulesthat you believe will help shape a community where power is balanced without individuals losing their rights and freedoms. Your guiding value is clear and rational thought moderated by your emotions and experience, which you use to apply universal principles as you work with others to ensure a fair community.

Know Yourself

Pay attention to your beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.

The first step to ethical agility and maturity is to carefully read the description of your own ethical lens. While you may resonate with elements of other lenses, when you are under stress or pressure, youll begin your ethical analysis from your home lens. So, becoming familiar with both the gifts and the blind spots of your lens is useful. For more information about how to think about ethics as well as hints for interpreting your results, look at the information under the ELI Essentials and Exploring the ELI on the menu bar.

Understanding Your Ethical Lens

Over the course of history, four different ethical perspectives, which we call the Four Ethical Lenses, have guided people in making ethical decisions. Each of us has an inherited bias towards community that intersects with our earliest socialization. As we make sense of our world, we develop an approach to ethics that becomes our ethical instinctour gut reaction to value conflicts. The questions you answered were designed to determine your instinctual approach to your values preferences. These preferences determine your placement on the Ethical Lens Inventory grid, seen on the right side of this page.

The dot on the grid shows which ethical lens you prefer and how strong that preference is. Those who land on or close to the center point do not have a strong preference for any ethical lens and may instead resonate with an approach to ethics that is concerned with living authentically in the world rather than one that privileges one set of values over another.

Each of the paragraphs below describes an ethical traita personal characteristic or quality that defines how you begin to approach ethical problems. For each of the categories, the trait describes the values you believe are the most important as well as the reasons you give for why you make particular ethical decisions.

To see how other people might look at the world differently, read the descriptions of the different ethical lenses under the tab Ethical Lenses on the menu bar. The Overview of the Four Ethical Lenses can be printed to give you a quick reference document. Finally, you can compare and contrast each ethical trait by reading the description of the trait found under the Traits menu. Comparing the traits of your perspective to others helps you understand how people might emphasize different values and approach ethical dilemmas differently.

As you read your ethical profile and study the different approaches, youll have a better sense of what we mean when we use the word ethics. Youll also have some insight into how human beings determine what actions areor are notethical.

The Snapshot gives you a quick overview of your ethical lens.

Your snapshot shows you living responsibly into your principles while working to build a fair community.

The Responsibilities Lens represents the family of ethical theories known as deontology, where you consider your principlesand the duties that come from those principlesto help you determine what is ethical.

The Relationship Lens represents the family of ethical theories known as justice theories, where to determine what actions are ethical, you consider how the various community structuressuch as businesses, schools, health care systems, and the various levels of governmentensure that citizens are treated fairly and have access to needed resources.

At times, you may find either of these theories persuasive. In your quest for the truth, you yearn for a community guided by reason, where each individual is principled and fair-minded. The clearest thoughts of both individuals and groups would lead to organizational and community structures, built on sound principles, that provide the needed knowledge, power, and resources for all people to have a chance to thrive.

Your Ethical Path is the method you use to become ethically aware and mature.

Your ethical path is the Path of the Thinker and the Path of the Citizen

On the ethical Path of the Thinker, you use your reason to identify the principlesthe foundational rulesthat you believe are worthy of adoption and will lead you to the Truth. As a human being, you have the privilege of choosing how best to live your life. Your preference is determining for yourself the principles that you believe are the most important. Then you determine how your actions can be true to your guiding principles.

On the ethical Path of the Citizen, you work with others and use collective reason to promote strong community structures and strive to treat people fairly. The first element of justice is procedural justice: How do you make sure that people are treated fairly in the community’s formal and informal institutional structures? The second side of justice is more problematicdistributive justice. These conversations focus on who has access to stuffhealth care, jobs, food, clean air and water, housing, and educationand who is going to pay for it.

As you walk your paths, you moderate your quest for the truth with considering also what is good. In the process, you trust that the world will make sense as you ground your principles… [Content truncated to 3000 words]

Assessment Description (Effects of Trauma-informed Leadership and Supervision on the retention of clinicians in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment environments.)

Annotated bibliographies are a note-taking strategy used by researchers to determine if a source can contribute to the research project. Researchers write annotated bibliographies to summarize and evaluate research, as well as determine the relevance, currency, objectivity, accuracy, and credibility of the source material. In this assignment, you will identify three empirical peer-reviewed articles that justify the need for your intended research topic. Each article selected must be published within the last five years.

General Requirements

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

• Locate the Annotated Bibliographies Template” in the Topic Resources for this topic and use it to complete this assignment.
• This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
• Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. Refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for specific guidelines related to doctoral-level writing. The manual contains essential information on manuscript structure and content, clear and concise writing, and academic grammar and usage.

Directions

Complete Part 1 in the Annotated Bibliographies Template” by providing annotated bibliographies (150-250 words for each article excluding the reference note) of three empirical, peer reviewed research articles on your proposed dissertation topic

Complete Part 2 in the “Annotated Bibliographies Template” by providing a discussion of your search techniques and a defense of your selections.

I attached my new topic worksheet so you could see the direction I was going in. The Annotated Bio is below.