Submit a 10-15 page paper in which you present your current personal leadership framework. A leadership framework is an organized set of ideas
that help you understand the roles of leaders and followers in different leadership situations so that you can perform your own leadership and follower roles, help others to perform their leadership and followership roles, develop yourself and others for leadership and followership, and think critically about what you read and hear about leadership and followership from this day forth.
Your work especially should reflect sensitivity to the ethical dimension of leadership. You should also take the context of leadership into account in terms of how it supports or limits leaders and followers and how it might impact ethical decision-making and conduct. This paper does not mean
that you are merely to summarize the course content. On the contrary, it means that you should
give evidence of having thought critically about the major issues and concepts you have
encountered in this course. For example, if you incorporate something you learned this semester,
explain why you find the idea(s) particularly useful. Similarly, you should explain why you have
rejected a major idea(s), if you do so. You also should inductively develop ideas about leadership
and followership that reflect your engagement with the course content.
The paper is not a research paper, meaning you do not have to consult any sources beyond those
you have been assigned during the semester. Instead of that it should be a statement of how you
think about leadership now based on what you have read, observed, or heard this semester. It
should reflect your ideas. It should be a statement of what you think about leadership that you can
live by for the near term as you gain more experience and knowledge. It should be a useful guide
to you in future leadership situations, and it should be something you would be proud to give to
someone who knows nothing about leadership. It should have the potential to help someone else
become a better leader and a more effective follower in the first two-three decades of the 21st
century.
The basic framework should include, as a minimum, your answers to the following:
1. Definitions of basic concepts (e.g., leadership and followership)
2. Identification and discussion of some of the basic issues or controversies and how you view
them (e. g., is leadership learned or innate, are there gender differences in leadership, how
is leadership different from management, how does leadership vary from one context to another and why, and the importance of character and ethics)

3. Theoretical basis: Upon which model(s) are you building your framework? Why?

4. Values: What core values will form the foundation of your framework?
5. Maintenance: How will you keep your framework current?
6. Stakeholder involvement: Whom will you involve in the construction and maintenance of
your framework?
7. Self-assessment: How often and through what means will you get feedback on your
performance as a leader?