Personal Ethics and Leadership Statement

OBJECTIVE:  The objective of this assignment is to encourage you to explore your personal ethical perspectives and how those perspectives will fit into a career in business, as well as to consider your preferred leadership styles and goals.  You will have to give thoughtful consideration to what your values are, where those values came from, and how they will influence your professional career, as well as your leadership approaches and development.  Your assignment will be evaluated on the criteria below.

LeBow Focus:

Economics:  Learn to consider positions, both co-op and permanent, by seeking more than just a paycheck.  Instead, you might consider a good fit in terms of skills, future growth, fit with the organizations culture, and fair compensation.

Problem Solving:  Give thoughtful consideration to times in your personal life and future professional life when your ethics might have been or might be compromised and think through possible ways to deal with those types of situations.  Give thoughtful consideration to times in your personal life and future professional life when leadership played or may play a critical role, and how you may approach various situations.

Career Planning:  Acknowledge that a career in business is more than performing certain tasks. You must also consider the culture of the environment in which you work and seek a good fit between your ethical values and leadership styles, and those of the organization

Writing:  "Commit to Paper" your ethical values and leadership ideas and use that document to guide you as you pursue a career in business.

Personal Evaluation

GOAL:  For this paper you will have to clearly identify and explain your ethical perspective by responding to the following questions.  Your responses should be in paragraph form and you should use examples to clarify your experiences and reasoning.

1. How do you personally determine what is right or wrong? Where does your personal ethical perspective come from?

2. What do you expect from yourself in dealing with others(give an example)?What do you expect from others in dealing with you(give an example)?

3. What are your "core values"? (cite 2)How have your core values influenced your decisions(give an example)?

4. Good people sometimes make bad decisions.  Why might a person (including you) compromise an ethical foundation?

5. What do you consider your leadership strengths (cite 2 and give an example of when or how you used them)?

6. Considering areas of your personal leadership that can be improved, what goals do you have in the next 2-3 years (while attending Drexel) to develop as a leader (state 2).  How will achieve them?

7. Research a business leader who behaved unethically.  Summarize (cite sources). Using the "fraud triangle", explain why you believe the situation occurred and how it may have been prevented.

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