SUBMIT ASSIGNMENT 10

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FINAL PAPER: World View Chart Writing Assignment

Due Week 10 and worth 235 points

This assignment uses the information you have gathered for your weekly World View Chart Assignments.

Choose ONE (1) category (origin of all things, nature of god, view of human nature, view of good and evil, etc.) from the chart to focus on for this assignment. Consider how the selected category relates to all of the religions covered and to your own social or work experiences.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Select ONE (1) category from the completed World View Chart. Provide a rationale for choosing this category. What is compelling about this category? Why is it important in the study of religion?

2. Describe the selected content and explain the significance of the selected category across all of the religions studied. Show in what ways the category is significant for each religion.

3. Give an example of how you have noticed this category in your life, town or country. What impact does this category have in the everyday lives of people who practice religion in your area? (You do not have to give examples of all the religions in your area, just one you have noticed besides any you practice). For example, in Cincinnati, Ohio we have Hindu, Greek Orthodox, Catholic festivals in the summer. So if my category were “Festivals and Celebrations” I could use those events as my example.

4. Use at least three (3) quality resources as references for the assignment and document your sources using APA Style for in-text citations and references. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

5. Write clearly and coherently using correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and mechanics.

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze what is meant by religion.

• Analyze the similarities and differences in the primary beliefs held by major religious traditions and the cultures in which these religions evolved.

• Describe the varieties of religious experience and practice in a wide range of cultures.

• Recognize how daily life within various religions and current affairs are influenced by religion.

• Develop written pieces that demonstrate an analysis of a topic relevant to the course.

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in religion.

• Write clearly and concisely about world religions using proper writing mechanics.

Basically….you are choosing ONE OF THE 8 SECTIONS OF THE CHARTS WE HAVE WORKED ON ALL QUARTER……EX: AFTERLIFE. THEN YOU ARE GOING TO ADDRESS HOW EACH OF THE 12 RELIGIONS WE COVERED VIEWS THE SECTION YOU CHOSE. IN OUR EXAMPLE….AFTERLIFE.

-DO NOT CHOOSE CHRISTIANITY OR ANY OTHER SINGLE RELIGION TO ADDRESS: 0 GRADE

-DO NOT BE SELECTIVE IN ADDRESSING 2 OR 3 OR EVEN JUST 1 RELIGION….IT IS 12 AND HERE THEY ARE:

HINDUISM, JAINISM, BUDDHISM, DAOISM, CONFUCIANISM, SHINTO, ZOROASTRIANISM, JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, SIKHISM, FINALLY CHOOSE ONE OF THE NEW RELIGIONS SUCH AS MORMONISM, JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES, AND COMPLETE THE CHART FOR WEEK 10 ON ONE OF THESE AND USE IT FOR THE 12TH AND FINAL RELIGION OF YOUR FINAL PAPER.

Purpose:

The purpose of this assignment is for you to develop a Relationship Building Action Plan.

Outcome Met by Completing This Assignment

• use leadership theories, assessment tools, and an understanding of the role of ethics, values, and attitudes to evaluate and enhance personal leadership skills
• develop and implement methods for establishing a constructive organizational structure and culture that fosters positive employee and employer relationships
• assess the interactions between the external environment and the organization to foster responsible and effective leadership and organizational practices

Background:

After a relaxing weekend, you come to work, sit down at your desk and open your email. The following is an email to you from Andrew Rockfish:

I am sending this email to you because of the personal nature of the material contained within your next assignment. It is incumbent upon all good leaders to assess continuously their personal leadership skills, style, and approach.

You will be developing a personal relationship building assessment plan. Much like an annual doctor’s check-up, the goal of the assessment plan is to develop a procedure for evaluating the status of your personal skills, style, and attitude in your work with others. Included in the assessment plan is a review of your leadership strengths, weaknesses, results of leadership assessments, feedback methodology, attitude, and leadership style.

Relationship building is a dynamic process just as situations change so too can the people skills needed to address the situation. Periodic review of those skills will benefit you by noting weaknesses and areas of change or improvement needed in your behavior.

So, what exactly am I asking you to do that needs confidentiality? Well, your plan is going to be the result of the following hypothetical evaluation you received after your first year with GDD. Although the hypothetical evaluation could be much better, we have found that the results provide trainees the opportunity to reflect upon one’s actual results and to prepare for personal growth moving forward.

The hypothetical scenario is one in which you were promoted a year ago into a leadership position. However, the past year has proved to show several issues and the results are not at all what we were hoping for when we promoted you. Still, experience has taught us that help starts with an employee taking stock of their personal skills. Since we believe that you have the potential for being an excellent department head, we would like to take measures toward your development. Please follow the instructions below:

Instructions:

Step 1: Preparation for the Assignment

Before you begin writing the report, you will read the following requirements that will help you meet the writing and APA requirements. Not reading this information will lead to a lower grade:

• Review “How to Analyze a Case Study” under Week 6 Content. You are expected to use the facts from the case scenario focusing on using this information to determine opportunities and solve problems.

• Read the grading rubric for the assignment. Use the grading rubric while writing the report to ensure all requirements are met that will lead to the highest possible grade.

In writing this assignment, you will read and following these tasks:

• Third person writing is required. Third person means that there are no words such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first person writing), nor is there use of “you or your” (second person writing). If uncertain how to write in the third person, view this link: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-and-third-person.

• Contractions are not used in business writing, so you are NOT to use contraction in writing this assignment.

• You are expected to paraphrase and are NOT to use direct quotes. You are expected to paraphrase, which can be learned by reviewing this link: https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QPA_paraphrase2.html.

• You are responsible for APA only for in-text citations and a reference list. Cite the page or paragraph number.

• You are expected to use the facts from the case scenario paired with the weekly courses readings to develop the analysis and support the reasoning. No more than three (3) external resources can be used in completing the assignment. The expectation is that you provide a robust use of the course readings. If any material is used from a source document, it must be cited and referenced with a page or paragraph number. No books can be used as resource documents. A reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa.

Step 2: How to Set Up the Plan

Create a Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) document that is double-spaced, 12-point font. The final product will be between 6-8 pages in length excluding the title page and reference page and appendix. Write clearly and concisely.

Follow a Report Format.

• Create a title page with title, your name, the course, the instructor’s name and date;
• Introduction
• Leadership Table (make sure the tables are formatted to fit within the report and are easy to read and interpret)
• Leadership Assessment
• Relationship Building Action Plan

Step 3: Leadership Table

In this hypothetical scenario, your review has been completed and the results of the evaluation as well as feedback from your peers and direct reports are in your hands. The key to success in this project is to accept that the content in the “GDD Evaluation Form” as a real assessment of your performance at GDD for the first year’s work in this position. Although the information within the form is obviously hypothetical, you must place yourself in the position and address the situation as if it were truly you.

• Carefully review the Evaluation Form and Peer/Direct Report Comments:

• Examine the comments and information from the two documents: Evaluation Form and Peer/Direct Report Comments. Identify those statements/comments that relate to the following concepts: your strengths as a leader, your weaknesses as a leader, communication skills, personality, emotional IQ, with respect to others – trust, leadership attitude, leadership style, and vision/strategic goal implementation.

• Complete the Leadership Table with the statements/comments you have identified.

Topic	Comment Phrase (s)
Strengths as a Leader
Weaknesses as a Leader
Communication Skills
Personality
Emotional IQ
Trust
Leadership Approach
Demonstrated Leadership Style
Vision/Strategic Goal Implementation

• Using the main topics listed in the table above, write one paragraph for each topic, relating the identified statements/comments to conclusions that you draw about your effectiveness as a relationship builder over the past year. Use the course readings (weeks 1 – 6) to support your conclusions/reasoning. Be brutally honest with the conclusions that you draw. This is personal and means your future with GDD is on the line.

Step 4: Leadership Assessment

To ensure you have a complete picture of your leadership skills, you will need to take the leadership assessments listed below. If you took any of these assessments back in week 5, you may use the results but you must complete all assessments. Copy the actual results in the appendix of the plan. Note: your results are confidential.

Then, write a short summary of the results of each quiz or test. The summary is your explanation of the results and not a copy/paste of the results.

• Jung Personality Typology Test
• Emotionally Intelligent Quiz
• Communication Skills
• Self Esteem Quiz
• Are you a Leader Test
• Leadership Skills
• Leadership Style Quizzes

Step 5: Relationship Building Action Plan

Now that you have completed the Leadership Assessments, it is time to develop a plan of action for improvement. Think of the leadership action plan as a way to improve the relationship-building skills with others and influence the people within the department to accomplish the work in an efficient manner that meets organizational standards and satisfies customers. In completing the Action Plan, you will identify the gaps between the statements/comments from the table and the leadership assessment results. Focus on the process of how to bring about improvement rather than what you should do. Consider the steps you will take to resolve the weaknesses you have?

To accomplish the action plan, you will complete the tasks listed below. Be thoughtful in your responses reflecting upon the input documents (Evaluation Form and Peer/Direct Report Comments and Leadership Table).

In completing each task, you will formulate a thesis statement and support the reasoning with rigorous, focused thinking that demonstrates the analytical skills GDD is looking from you. Read all of the reports and information closely.

• Provide a paragraph that explains why people skills are important for a leader to possess.
• Identify and discuss the people skills that are lacking in your relationship with others as demonstrated in the assessments and feedback received in Step 3.
• Explain how the missing or weak people skills are hindering your success at building relationships with followers.
• Explain the significance of the leader-follower relationship to fulfilling the strategic plan of the leader.
• Identify the one critical factor from the facts provided (aside from the weaknesses in personal skills), that will specifically affect your leader-follower relationship more than any other factor. Explain how and why this fact will affect your future if not corrected now.
• Provide at least three practical recommendations as to how you can improve the weak skills that you identified.

Step 6: Appendix – comes after the Reference List

• Use the appendix to provide the results of each of the leadership assessments.
• Make sure to label each leadership assessment.

Step 7: Review the Paper

• Read the paper to ensure all required elements are present. Use the grading rubric to ensure that you gain the most points possible for this assignment.
• Proofread the paper for spelling and grammatical issues, and third person writing.
• Read the paper aloud as a first measure;
• Use the spell and grammar check in Word as a second measure;
• Have someone who has excellent English skills to proof the paper;
• Consider submitting the paper to the Effective Writing Center (EWC). The EWC will provide 4-6 areas that may need improvement.

read the document before bidding

annoteded Bibliography
contains the sources you used in the ELP-Paper. It is important that you start
your ELP research immediately. Each entry contains the citation of the source
in correct MLA Format and an annotation on the source following the citation.

Two entries are
required in this assignment.

• Book.
• Database – an article from a
  professional journal.

DIRECTIONS:

Each entry must
contains a complete citation in the latest MLA Format and an accompanying
annotation. Use the following site for MLA citation information.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/

DO NOT USE A CITATION
MACHINE. LEARN HOW TO WRITE A CITATION.

CITATION/ANNOTATION
CHECK LIST:

1. All citations must
be in MLA format.

2. Use Times New Roman
type at 12 pts. for all ELP work.

3. Double space all
lines in the Annotated Bibliography.

4. Indent all lines of
the citation and annotation entries EXCEPT the first line of each citation.

5. Use one-inch
margins on all sides of the document.

6. Write in the third
person. Do not use I, you, me, we, etc.

7. Do not refer to
your ELP research.

8. Each annotation
must contain the following:

• One sentence stating the
  purpose or findings of the author. (What the book/article was about).
• One sentence stating if there
  were any photographs, illustrations, or charts.
• One sentence stating if there
  were any limitations to the source. (In other words, was there something
  missing the author could have included).
• One sentence stating who would
  find the source useful.

SAMPLE
CITATION/ANNOTATION ENTRIES:

1. One entry for this
assignment must be a book.

Sample #1.- Book: With
permission of David Gallagher, Sp. 2013.

Buechner, Thomas S.
Norman Rockwell A Sixty Year Retrospective. New York: Harry N.

Abrams, Incorporated,
1972. Print.

The book illustrates
Rockwell’s work in chronological order in twenty-year increments. It includes a
brief autobiography related to his artistic career, including his schooling and
how he became an artist. Over 150 of his paintings are illustrated in the book,
including an overview on how he developed his work and the story behind selected
paintings. The book is valuable to someone looking to research Rockwell’s
career, as it is a well-organized overview in a chronological timeline. A
limitation includes the fact that not all of Rockwell’s work is explained and
is limited to what the author chooses.

2. One entry must be
an article from a professional journal that was obtained from a database (See
Neumann library). – Notice that the URL is not required for a database entry.
However, a URL for an approved Web site is required in the Annotated Bibliography.

Sample #2.- Database
With permission of David Gallagher, Sp. 2013.

Greenhill, Jennifer A.
“The View from Outside: Rockwell and Race in 1950.” American Art 21.2

(Summer 2007): 70-95. Ebsco
Host. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.

The article provides a
background of the paintings that Norman Rockwell created focusing on the
epidemic America had with the color of race. Nearly two-dozen examples of his
artwork are provided in the article. It describes how racism existed in America
and how Rockwell depicted it in his work throughout his career. It chronicles
racism in America and when, or how, Rockwell’s work connected to it. A fan of
Norman Rockwell and one who has an interest in racism would find this source
valuable. This is true since the author provides specific examples how Rockwell
blended art with the controversial topic of racism in America. A limitation of
the article is that it does not analyze all of the work that Rockwell created
based on the Civil Rights Movement.