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LEA5125 Leadership Ethics, Culture and Politics

Week 1 Discussion

Whistleblower:
An Ethical Dilemma

A
whistleblower, by definition, is someone who brings an unethical, immoral, or
illegal business practice to the public’s attention. Whistleblowers have a
difficult time in doing this, and they often find their lives changed because
of their actions. Sometimes they are shunned and also receive death threats. It
is common for the family members to feel the effects of a whistleblower’s
behavior.

Dr. Jeffrey
Wigand became one of the best-known whistleblowers after his experience was
turned into a movie, The Insider. He proved tobacco companies were deliberately
boosting the nicotine content of cigarettes, making them more addictive and
cancer causing. However, similar to other whistleblowers, he suffered from
tremendous stress and received death threats and other forms of intimidation
for doing the right thing. Do some research on Wigand’s actions.

For the
first part of your post:

Assess how
Dr. Wigand showed moral intelligence and leadership in this situation. Assess
what you think he did for his own credibility based on his actions.

Evaluate
what you would do if you found an unethical practice in your workplace. Would
your response depend on the severity of the unethical practice?

For the
second part of your post, select any one of the following bullet points.
Attempt to spread the bullet points out among class members (e.g., not have one
bullet point answered by all course participants).

Provide a
couple examples of potential unethical practices in your organization that
could be considered very minor and that people have come to “accept” as opposed
to reporting. How, exactly, does the organization or its members respond to the
unethical practices? Assess any inconsistencies in the organizational response.
Recommend any alternative response.

Create a
continuum of severity model regarding ethical practices in organizations and
discuss your model. How did you arrive at the model you created? Propose how an
organization might use your severity continuum model.

Justify why
you think that people tend to accept some unethical practices while others are
not accepted. Propose three or four key steps an organization might take to
build more consistent ethical decisions and actions.

Conclude
your post with a three or four sentence summary of the most important point,
lesson, or takeaways from your research and analysis for your initial post.

Provide a
substantive (500–1,000 words) initial discussion post. Justify your answers
with examples and reasoning. Comment on the initial postings of at least two
peers. Your responses to other initial posts must be a 100 to 200 word minimum
each.

LEA5125 Leadership Ethics, Culture and Politics

Week 2 Discussion

Role Models

A role
model is someone who behaves in a way that inspires you to imitate the
behavior. Perhaps someone’s way of giving feedback is so sensitive you are
inspired to adopt the method as your own. For instance, someone’s business
attire seems perfectly suited to the occasion and exudes an attractive or
powerful statement, and you wish to dress in a similar manner.

Describe
your role model at work, including a particular aspect in that person’s
behavior that inspires you.

Explain
exactly what the person does or says to inspire you to the point of emulation.

Then,
analyze a scenario in which this person has changed the organization positively
because of the characteristic you admire. How is the organization a better
place because of the presence of your role model?

How can you
change your personal behavior to be similar? How would your career be enhanced?

Conclude
your post with a three or four sentence summary of the most important point,
lesson or takeaways from your research and analysis for your initial post.

Provide a
substantive (500–1,000 words) initial discussion post. Justify your answers with examples and
reasoning.

After your
initial post, comment on the initial postings of at least two peers. Your
follow-up postings should each be a 100 to
200 word minimum that substantively address the required content with the
following prompts in mind:

Compare the
role model that you discussed in your initial posting to a peer’s role model.
What are the similarities and differences between the two leaders?

Assess
whether the peer’s role model would also be someone you would consider a role
model based on the information provided in their initial posting.

LEA5125 Leadership Ethics, Culture and Politics

Week 3 Discussion

Five Bases
of Power

Conduct
research on French and Raven’s five bases of power, which include coercive,
legitimate, reward, referent, and expert power.

For the
first part of your post, choose five leaders, one for each of the power bases,
and give a brief example to support why a leader’s use of power best exemplifies
a certain power base.

For the
second part of your post, select any one of the following bullet points.
Attempt to spread the bullet points out among class members (e.g., not have one
bullet point answered by all course participants).

Assess
which base of power is most appealing to you from the perspective of both a
leader and a follower.

Justify
which leader seems the most successful, using specific examples and research to
support your view.

Propose a
supported plan (three or four action steps) for how you (or the organization)
might help one of the least successful leaders you chose to improve their
leadership success.

Analyze a
leader that uses a good balance of the different bases of power. How does this
leader compare to those who have a dominant style?

Conclude
your post with a three or four sentence summary of the most important point,
lesson or takeaways from your research and analysis for your initial post.

Provide a
substantive (500–1,000 words) initial discussion posting. Justify your answers
with examples and reasoning. Comment on the initial postings of at least two
peers. Your responses to other initial posts must be a 100 to 200 word minimum
each.

LEA5125 Leadership Ethics, Culture and Politics

Week 4 Discussion

Managing
Emotions

There are
times when you are hurt, defensive, joyous, reserved, controlled, or angry.
Acting professionally means controlling your emotions. While outbursts are
unwelcome as a way of communicating or expressing yourself, emotions are
important indicators of authenticity and can be reflections of the ethical and
cultural foundations of an organization.

For the
first part of your post:

Compare two
leaders you are familiar with, one who managed emotion well and one who did not
manage emotion well. Provide specific examples to support your stance on the
emotional management of these leaders. How did their emotional management
affect the organization?

For the
second part of your post, select any one of the following bullet points.
Attempt to spread the bullet points out among class members (e.g., not have one
bullet point answered by all course participants).

Assess how
a leader can most effectively manage emotions in the workplace. As a leader, how can one show appropriate
emotional self-control or leverage emotions for organizational benefit?

Propose a
research-supported policy or guideline statement (three or four action items)
an organization might adopt concerning emotional expression in the workplace.
How would such a policy enhance organizational culture? How would such a policy
enhance ethics in the organization?

Propose a
brief set of coaching points for how leaders should handle a situation where an
employee or a customer is extremely emotional to an unprofessional point?

Conclude
your post with a three or four sentence summary of the most important point,
lesson or takeaways from your research and analysis for your initial post.

Provide a
substantive (500–1,000 words) initial discussion posting. Justify your answers
with examples and reasoning. Comment on the initial postings of at least two
peers. Your responses to other initial posts must be a 100 to 200 word minimum
each.

LEA5125 Leadership Ethics, Culture and Politics

Week 5 Discussion

Organizational
Collaboration

This week
you read about collaboration, what makes collaboration successful, and the role
that leaders play in successful collaboration. Some of the more innovative
companies are creating a culture of collaboration where everyone has strengths
that they bring to the table, and everyone is involved in solving problems and
creating new ideas.

For the
first part of your post,

Research a
company that has a culture of collaboration:

Briefly
assess which of the organization’s characteristics make you think that the
culture is collaborative.

Assess
whether the company is successful at collaboration. If so, provide an example
that supports your opinion. If not, discuss why it is not successful.

Analyze the
role the company’s top leaders play in the culture of collaboration.

For the
second part of your post,

Choose a
situation where you were part of a collaborative effort that was successful and
a situation where you were part of a collaborative effort that was not
successful. These can be from work, from sports teams, or from other
collaborative efforts you have experienced.

Compare
these two collaborative efforts to analyze what the similarities and
differences were, and why one was successful and one was not.

Conclude
your post with a three or four sentence summary of the most important point,
lesson or takeaways from your research and analysis for your initial post.

Provide a
substantive (500–1,000 words) initial discussion posting. Justify your answers
with examples and reasoning. Comment on the initial postings of at least two
peers. Your responses to other initial posts must be a 100 to 200 word minimum
each.